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To discuss the current wave of anti-government protests: Habib Battah is an independent journalist and the editor of Beirut report dot com. Ahmed Rushdi is a senior foreign policy adviser to the Iraqi parliament. Mohammad Marandi heads the American Studies department at the University of Tehran. Abdel Bari Atwan is editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm, a London-based Arabic news site.
Marandi: One guest said all parties in #Lebanon are corrupt family institutions that own the country’s wealth, yet fails to mention that #Hezbollah isn’t controlled by any family or that it’s members don’t have access to the US controlled banking sector
Abdel Bari Atwan
Abdel Bari Atwan is the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm, Arabic Independent newspaper. The established author, broadcaster and former editor of al-Quds al-Arabi was born in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip two years after the Nakhbah. Having left to Jordan in 1967, Atwan has lived most of his life in exile. Atwan has Four bestselling books: the country of world , the secret History of Alqaeda, after bin Laden, the last one Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate.
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