Alan Cheuse reviews a thriller The Mehlis Report a novel by Rabee Jaber that was recently translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid. Book Review: 'The Mehlis Report' ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this ...

Rabee Jaber, trans. from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid. New Directions, $14.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2064-4 Lebanese novelist Jaber receives his first English translation as he ...

For seven straight weeks Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has ruthlessly suppressed protests calling for reform, freedom, and increasingly the overthrow of his regime. Insan, a regional human rights ...

Investigators probing the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri say fresh evidence has reinforced their suspicions of official Syrian and Lebanese involvement. A report on the killing ...

A SPECIAL court of vital importance for the future of Lebanon and Syria – and perhaps for the whole Middle East – is set to begin work in March, as the UN Security Council determined last week. If the ...

He says the United States should be careful to continue to work within the UN Security Council on the Syria issue. He also says he is worried about the political situation in Lebanon, which is ...

Is Lebanon sure it wants to know who did this? (AFP) On 11 December, the independent investigator in the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri submitted his final ...

UNITED NATIONS — A U.N. probe into the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister has unearthed evidence that strengthens its suspicion of high-level Syrian and Lebanese involvement in the ...

The 25-page report from the team of Detlev Mehlis, the German prosecutor, again accused Syria of trying to obstruct his inquiry when it demanded that he revise his findings after a key witness ...

BEIRUT: Syria was accused of hiding information by burning "all the Syrian intelligence documents concerning Lebanon," according to UN chief investigator Detlev Mehlis' second report on the ...

A U.N. inquiry into the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister has unearthed evidence that strengthens its suspicion of high-level Syrian and Lebanese involvement in the slaying, a report ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni, a relentless critic of Syria who spent months in France fearing assassination, was killed Monday in a car bombing – only a day after returning ...