Manuela Paraipan

Editor Bulgaria and Lebanon

Editor Bulgaria and Lebanon

Manuela Paraipan was awarded the 2005 Scholarship of the World Security Network Foundation. She is a Bucharest based independent foreign policy analyst. She has been published in The Washington Times, World Press, Yemen Times, Global Politician, Lebanon Wire and other publications. She has also been invited as a speaker at multiple political conferences.

Articles by Manuela Paraipan

• Hamas Leader Hamdan: What we are and what we want
• Yemen and its challenges II
• Yemen and its challenges
• PA President Abbas: "Hamas is part of the Palestinian people."
• Interviewing Hamas in Lebanon
• Omar Karami: "Arabs and Muslims feel the U.S. administration is not an honest power broker"
• Syria - the modern sphinx in Middle East's power struggle
• Saudi Arabia's role in the Broader Middle East
• Former Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati: "Lebanon is still standing and a point of reference"
• The Syrian influence did not go away
• Lebanon's Ex-President Emile Lahoud explains exclusively: "We are in a State of War with Israel"
• From Iran with Love
• Ain el Hilwe: A No-Go Zone
• Iraqi Religious Shiite and Sunni Religious Leaders: A Fatwa Against Sectarian Violence
• Father Canon White: "The key subject is how to reduce violence"
• Former U.S. National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane: "The missing element was trying to engage the clergy"
• Minister for Information Tarek Mitri: "Muslims believe that they have been humilated by a powerful West"
• Interview Ahmad Al-Assaad
• Talking with Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
• Walid Jumblatt: "We have no other choice than to abide by reality"
• A Work in Progress: Lebanon First
• Bint Jbeil is More than Just Hizbollah's Southern Stronghold
• Resisting Appeasement
• Ali Bazzi: "We want to save our country and overcome the current crisis."
• Alain Aoun: "We are in a national crisis"
• Samy Gemayel: "The Lebanese are left to choose their own path and destiny"
• Samir Frangieh: "The Cedars Revolution has put things into motion."
• Lebanon - the never ending story of internal stalemate and external pressure
• Pierre A. Maroun: "Hezbollah must be confronted before it completes its coup d'état against the Lebanese state."
• "The Lebanese are left to choose their own path and destiny"
• Interview with Bilal Sharara
• Meeting Abu Arz
• Interview with Timur Goksel
• Interview with Dr. Kamel Mohanna, President of the Amel Association and President of the Collective of Lebanese NGOs
• Lebanon: WSN Team reports from Beirut looking for Peace, Stability, Independence
• Interview with Dr. Kamel Mohanna
• Interview with Wael Hmaidan
• Interview with Gibran Bassil, Political Officer of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM)
• Interview with Marie Daunay
• Discovering the South of Lebanon Post-War
• Interview with Ali Hamdan: "We Want a Referee for the Political Game"
• The Spider’s Web: A Display of Hizbollah's War
• Interview With Hagop Pakradounian: "The problem is that we always try to find solutions outside of Lebanon."
• Interview with Ghazi Aridi, Lebanon’s Minister of Information
• Interview with Ibrahim Kanaan, Lebanese Member of Parliament of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM)
• Interview with Dr. Fouad Abou Nader, leader of the Liberty Front political movement
• Interview with Sami Nader, professor at St. Joseph University in Beirut, a former Aounist (member of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) of General Michel Aoun) and a finance expert.
• Interview with General Khaled Aref (PLO), Secretary of the Embassy of Palestine, Lebanon
• Kucinich: Strength Through Peace Not Peace Through Strength is the Way
• Working for Jihad Inc
• Missed Opportunities
• How Far is Too Far?
• Syria and Tehran Pulling the Strings in Lebanon
• Sowing the Seeds for the Next War
• Wind of Change Over Damascus
• Hezbollah Militancy Impedes the Road Back to Normalcy
• Qatar's Progressive Diplomacy
• Post Conflict Perspective on the Shiit Hezbollah
• Interview with Dr. Joseph Hitti, expert on Lebanese politics and President of New England Americans for Lebanon (NEA)
• Interview with Samy Gemayel, member of the Central group loubnanouna movement
• Caught by the Stockholm Syndrome
• The Weak Link is the Lebanese Government
• Turkey - women's status a decisive yardstick
• "After the establishment of the Turkish Republic, we all became equal citizens"
• "What we did was to encourage women to enter into various business"
• "On a private level, the main problem is the patriarchal ideology, domestic violence, and unequal division of labor."
• "Turkey is already part of Europe"
• US and Israel – A New Approach Towards Hamas?
• Interview with Mark Meyer: "The most damaging form of corruption is judicial corruption"
• Romania on its way to EU membership ?
• Interview with Dan Lazea: "The total exposure of those who became political police is not possible anymore"
• Without Vision, There Will Be No Victory
• Religious Freedom: A Taboo in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• A New Reality on the Ground
• Syria’s uncertain future
• Our aim is to reestablish the Islamic Caliphate in the Muslim world
• Romania: In or Out of the Anglo-American Axis?
• UN Resolution 1559 in Perspective
• Talking with Hamas
• Looking for a Moderate Islam
• Building a Castle in the Sand
• Mohamad Awdi: "Bekaa suffered most from the Syrian presence in Lebanon"
• Some Would Want a New Axis
• Dr. Naji E. Hayek: "The Syrians controlled everything"
• The Palestine refugees: Out or integrated in Lebanon now?
• Interview with Fathi Abou al-Aardat, Senior Fatah Leader and Secretary of the Palestine Committee and Union in Lebanon: "The 500,000 Palestinians want to return to Palestine and not remain in Lebanon."
• Former President Amine Gemayel: "The main challenge is Syrian hegemony"
• Former Prime Minister General Aoun: "The Lebanese people's potential is enormous"
• Rita Samra: "We want to have a sovereign and democratic Lebanon"
• Dory Chamoun: "Some members of the opposition were Syrian puppets"
• My breath-taking meeting with President Gemayel
• Ziad Abs: "I have been arrested 30 times in the last ten years"
• The Shebaa Farms -- Fighting for a Vision?
• Sheikh Samy Gemayel: "I hope we are heading for democracy"
• Fares Boueiz: "We are living a historic moment!"
• Dr. Habib Malek: "Hariri's assassination was the tipping point"
• Ali Hamdan, Head of the Foreign Affairs Bureau - Amal Party: "Syria is not a foreign country for us - it is a friend"
• Interview with Bilal Sharara, Secretary General of the Lebanese Parliament
• Christian Member of Parliament Nayla Moawad: "Lebanese women can participate in political life"
• Maronite Father Choufani: "We do not accept Syria's presence!"
• Hezbollah's Hussein Naboulsi: "Lebanon exists because of us!"
• Christian opposition member Jean Aziz: "We will retain sovereignty in the next few weeks"
• Exclusive WSN interview with Bilal Sharara, Secretary General of the Foreign Affairs Parliamentary Commission in Lebanon
• Lebanon After Hariri: A Rose Revolution with Oriental Features?
• Exclusive WSN interview with Pierre A. Maroun, Secretary General of the American Lebanese Coordination Council in Washington, D.C.
• Russia’s Tactics in Eastern Europe
• Lebanese Electoral Law – A Prelude to Political Change?
• The Pan-Arab Parliament - Can it be a Seed of Change?
• Why Pressure Only Israel?
• Old Friends, Best Friends: Russia and Syria
• The Islamic State: An Alternative to Democracy and Secularism?
• Why Should the Autocrats Choose Democracy?
• An Insight on Arab Politics
• Russia's Relationship to Washington: An Expanding Crisis
• Arafat's death - what comes next ?
• The Struggle over the Middle East:Confronting European and US Policy in the Region
• Democratization in the Broader Middle East - illusion or opportunity?
• The Quest for Stability in the Middle East: Lebanon, Syria and U.S. Relations
• Democratizing the Muslim World
• A New Role for NATO

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