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Jean Aziz is a columnist at the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, a contributor for Al-Monitor's Lebanon Pulse and the host of a weekly political talk show on OTV, a Lebanese television station. He teaches communications at the American University of Technology and the Université Saint-Esprit De Kaslik in Lebanon. On Twitter: @JeanAziz1
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![Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam gestures as he argues during a cabinet meeting in the Grand Saray in Beirut, Lebanon July 9, 2015. Hundreds of supporters of a Lebanese Christian politician protested in Beirut on Thursday against the Sunni prime minister they claim is marginalizing Christian influence, stirring tensions in a country in crisis over war in neighboring Syria. Michel Aoun accuses Prime Minister Salam of taking decisions without cross-party consensus and usurping powers reserved for the pr](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/09/RTX1JPAR.jpg/RTX1JPAR.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=u61c0Rmr)
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![Lebanese army soldiers point their weapons during clashes with gunmen of hardline Sunni Muslim cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Assir, in Abra near Sidon, southern Lebanon, June 24, 2013. Lebanese soldiers fought Sunni Muslim gunmen in the southern city of Sidon on Monday in one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence fuelled by sectarian divisions over the civil war in neighbouring Syria. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) - RTX10YUO](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/08/RTX10YUO.jpg/RTX10YUO.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=F6viZtxK)
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![Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) talks with Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam upon his arrival at the Government Palace in Beirut, Lebanon August 11, 2015. Zarif visits Lebanon for the first time since Iran reached an agreement with world powers on the country's nuclear program. REUTERS/Aziz Taher - RTX1NXWG](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/08/RTX1NXWG.jpg/RTX1NXWG.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=jDjC-OxR)
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![A Syrian woman carries a basket after hanging clothes to dry outside her tent in the Lebanese village of Kefraya in west Bekaa March 2, 2015. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (LEBANON - Tags: SOCIETY IMMIGRATION) - RTR4RSW6](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/07/RTR4RSW6.jpg/RTR4RSW6.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=ZcTN0Uvy)
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