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إيلي الحاج

يكتب إيلي الحاج عن الشؤون السياسية لجريدة النهار (لبنان). وكان يكتب في السابق لصحيفة "الأنباء" الكويتية والصحيفة الإلكترونية "إيلاف".

Teachers protest in front of the Grand Serail, the government headquarters in Beirut February 19, 2013. The teachers' Union Coordination Committee (UCC) announced an open-ended strike from Tuesday after the Cabinet failed to assemble on Monday to ratify a long-awaited wage hike to be sent to parliament for its approval. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST EDUCATION) - RTR3DZA1

النقابيون يمهلون الحكومة اللبنانية 3 أسابيع ويعلقون إضرابهم

Elie Hajj

Protesters carry banners outside the Lebanese Central Bank in Beirut February 25, 2013. An open-ended strike by teachers and civil servants entered its second week today for the government to approve the wage hike proposal. The banners read " I am a father, I am a teacher" and " Machiavellism is not permited " REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3E9TN

"الطبقة السياسية في لبنان عاجزة... والدولة بعيدة"

Elie Hajj

Shi'ite masked gunmen from the Meqdad clan, gather at the Meqdad family's association headquarters in the southern suburbs in Beirut, August 15, 2012. A Shi'ite Muslim clan in Lebanon has abducted a Turkish businessman and several Syrians it says are rebel fighters in retaliation for the kidnapping of one of their relatives by the rebel Free Syrian Army in Damascus. REUTERS/Khalil Hassan (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR36V96

فلتان أمني يوحي أن شريعة غاب تحكم لبنان

Elie Hajj

Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah shout slogans during a rally to commemorate the birth of Prophet Mohammad in Beirut's suburbs, January 25, 2013. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3CY5C

قانون فصل انتخابي بين اللبنانيين "يطير" الإنتخابات وتحالف قوى 14 آذار لم يعد موجوداً عملياً

Elie Hajj

A couple are seen walking at Zaytouna Bay in Beirut October 25, 2012. The party capital of the Arab world, Beirut is a freewheeling city where Gulf Arabs, expatriates and Lebanese emigres fly in to enjoy its luxury hotels. But under the veneer of modernity lie sectarian demons coiled to strike. The car-bomb assassination last Friday of intelligence chief Wissam al-Hassan - an attack almost universally blamed on Syria and its local allies - brought the merry-go-round to a juddering halt. Gunmen and protester

أغنياء سوريا يملأون مقاهي بيروت الفخمة وسياراتهم الفارهة على كل الطرق

Elie Hajj

Lebanese Christian leaders and members of the ruling majority stand during a minute of silence in memory of slain Lebanese army general Francois El Hajj, at the Kataeb party headquarters in Beirut 12 December 2007. Hajj and his bodyguard were killed today in a car bomb that also injured eight others in a Christian suburb on the outskirts of Beirut. L-R: National Liberal Party's Dory Chamoun, deputy parliament speaker Farid Makari, Lebanese Forces party leader Samir Geagea, former Lebanese president Amine Ge

نائب رئيس محلس النواب اللبناني فريد مكاري لـ "المونيتور" : لا أعتقد أن أوروبا ستصنف "حزب الله" إرهابياً

Elie Hajj

Lebanese Sunni Islamists shout slogans as they carry coffins of Lebanese Islamist militants after their bodies arrived from Syria, in Tripoli, northern Lebanon December 22, 2012. Funerals will be held in Lebanon for three Lebanese Islamist militants killed while fighting with rebels in Syria. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3BU8I

الطائفة السنية في لبنان تشعر بأنها مستهدفة بعد حادثة عرسال

Elie Hajj

A Christian woman uses a cross and a rosary to bless a poster with an image of senior intelligence official Wissam al-Hassan during a protest against his killing, at Martyrs' square in downtown Beirut October 20, 2012. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Saturday he had been asked by the president to stay in his post as fear and anger over the assassination of a senior intelligence chief opposed to the Syrian leadership gripped the country. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL

بعضهم في لبنان يعتقد أن المنطقة سوف تتفتت

Elie Hajj

Lebanese Christian leader Michel Aoun arrives at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, near Beirut, to attend a new session of the national dialogue, June 11, 2012. Lebanese politicians held a National Dialogue meeting aimed at resolving deep rifts which have been exacerbated by the unrest in neighbouring Syria and have spilled over into unrest inside Lebanon. The last such meeting was held 18 months ago, before the Syrian uprising erupted. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS)

قانون الإنتخابات النيابية يهز تحالف المعارضة اللبنانية ضياع في 14 آذار و"حزب الله" لعب بمهارة

Elie Hajj

Syrian refugees stand in snow outside their tents during a winter storm in al-Marj, in the Bekaa valley January 9, 2013. The worst winter storm in two decades has hit the eastern Mediterranean this week, bringing destruction and death to Syria and its neighbours who are already dealing with a refugee crisis from the country's civil war. REUTERS/Afif Diab (LEBANON - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)

مسؤول في المعارضة السورية لـ"المونيتور": "لا نمتلك قرارنا في النزوح إلى لبنان."

Elie Hajj

Lebanese security forces reinforce the barriers during clashes with protesters who were trying to storm the Lebanese government in Beirut October 21, 2012. Angry mourners marched on Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati's offices in central Beirut on Sunday, breaking through an outer security barrier and scuffling with police who fired tear gas in response. "Mikati leave, get out," chanted hundreds of protesters following the funeral of a slain intelligence chief. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (LEBANON- Tags: POLIT

مواقف اللبنانيين من الأزمة السورية تختلف طائفياً

Elie Hajj