Slier has interviewed leading politicians including Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniye, former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Israeli President Shimon Peres, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Republika Srpska Prime Minister, Milorad Dodik, the former Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union Eduard Shevardnadze and South African President Jacob Zuma.
On 12 January 2011, minutes after Hariri posed for pictures with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, the opposition parties resigned from the cabinet, as an objection for the inability of the government to take detrimental decisions, causing his unity government to collapse.
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The anti-Syrian politicians were primarily members of the March 14 Alliance led by Saad Hariri, son of assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, and PSP leader Walid Jumblatt, amongst others.
MacKinnon has interviewed Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Israeli President Shimon Peres, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, as well as King Abdullah II of Jordan and former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze.
Under the Future Movement Party of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Allouch stood for election as a member of parliament in 2005 for the constituency of Tripoli and subsequently won that year.