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Showdown in Lebanon

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As regional mediation efforts fail, is it back to the brink of civil war in Lebanon? Guests mull over what went wrong in joint Saudi-Syrian mediation and explain why the investigation into one man's assassination – former premier Rafiq Hariri – is enough to trigger a regional crisis.

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  • Ali NASSREDDINE, Lebanese independent journalist
  • Abdel Bari ATWAN, Editor-in-chief, Al-Quds Al-Arabi (By satellite from London)
  • Walid PHARES, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies (Satellite from Washington)
  • Lucy FIELDER, France 24 correspondent in Beirut (By phone from Beirut)

Programme produced by Perrine Desplats and Yi Song.

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