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- ↑ "Interview with Zaki Chehab in Democracy Now!" . Retrieved 30 March 2008.
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Articles by Zaki Chehab
- Nine articles from New Statesman
- "Civil War Can Be Averted". Washington Post. 10 December 2005.
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