Ramez Maluf is a professor of journalism at the Lebanese American University in Beirut.

NPR: Arab Media Focuses on Hezbollah-Israel Fighting

Professor RAMEZ MALUF (Professor of Journalism, Lebanese American University, Beirut): Hello there.

NPR: Arab Media Focuses on Hezbollah-Israel Fighting

Ms. AMAL SAAD GHORAYEB (Lebanese American University): If they want something much stronger, then clearly it's aim would be to disarm Hezbollah, to push Hezbollah away from the border.

NPR: Bush Calls for Peacekeepers �� But Where Are They?

Professor RAMEZ MALUF (Lebanese American University): You know, I make a point of watching a large number of these stations--al-Arabiya, Al-Jazeera, al-Hurrah, Abu Dhabi TV, Dubai TV, all of the stations.

NPR: How Arab Media Portrays U.S. Abuse of Detainees

Elias Muhanna, a professor at Brown University in the US and editor of the Qifa Nabki blog on Lebanese politics, said the allegations were a "strange, unexplained aspect" of Mr Hassan's past, but had not dented his standing in the Sunni community.

BBC: Wissam al-Hassan, 2007