MUSTAPHA ADIB IS LEBANON's NEW PRIME MINISTER
Mustapha Adib speaks to journalists at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon today. (AP pic) In BEIRUT, AFP reported Mustapha Adib , a little-known diplomat who was nominated to become Lebanon’s new prime minister Monday, faces the nearly impossible challenge of embodying change after being picked by the political establishment. Adib has been Lebanon’s ambassador to Germany since 2013 and his name only emerged on Sunday to replace Hassan Diab , whose government resigned in the aftermath of the deadly August 4 blast at Beirut port. The 48-year-old was born in the northern city of Tripoli and is a Sunni Muslim , making him eligible to become prime minister under Lebanon’s sectarian-based power-sharing system. His biography on the Berlin embassy website presents him as an academic who holds a PhD in political science. It says he has conducted “research and expert work in the areas of both human and state security, parliamentary oversight of t