AL Monitor 28/10/2016

Daily Briefing How Lebanon’s presidential problem turned into opportunity ALI HASHEM for Al-Monitor Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced his support for former chief of the army and Hezbollah ally Gen. Michel Aoun as president, which may have been Hariri's last resort as his relationship with Saudi Arabia has been tense. The real reason Tunisia renewed its state of emergency  AHMED NADHIF FOR AL-MONITOR Diyarbakir protests timid as Kurds wary of post-coup crackdown  AMBERIN ZAMAN FOR AL-MONITOR Did Rouhani stop screening of hardline film about jailed Iranian-American?  ROHOLLAH FAGHIHI FOR AL-MONITOR Iran unfazed by Saudi flexing in Persian Gulf  ABBAS QAIDAARI FOR AL-MONITOR How oil is bringing Iraq, Egypt closer  MUSTAFA SAADOUN FOR AL-MONITOR The Israeli defense minister’s surprising offer  BEN CASPIT FOR AL-MONITOR Is Israel banning entry of Gaza cancer patients?  SHLOMI ELDAR FOR AL-MONITOR Why Netanyahu and Erdogan prefer ‘cold normalization’  ARAD NIR FOR AL-MONITOR How to replace Abbas? Produce a vice president  MOATH AL-AMOUDI FOR AL-MONITOR Despite difficulties, Palestinian women continue to marry prisoners  AHMAD MELHEM FOR AL-MONITOR The many dimensions of Mosul, and what comes next  METIN GURCAN FOR AL-MONITOR Have Turkey's neo-Ottomans abandoned Yemen?  PINAR TREMBLAY FOR AL-MONITOR The brewing battle over coffee in Turkey  TULAY CETINGULEC FOR AL-MONITOR VIEW SLIDESHOW> Egypt Gulf Iran Iraq Israel Lebanon Palestine Syria Turkey Congress Russia / MidEast