Naharnet writes “Syria Panics as Tribunal for Hariri's Assassins Takes Shape." Panic? You don't even need to be in Syria, as I am now, to realize that this is at most wishful thinking.

In the past few years, Ramadan television serials have been quite the rage as a topic in various media; read all about it, they say, this is what Arabs (and sometimes even the more generic Muslims) are watching. Serial babble, basically.