Saad Hariri is on TV right now, appealing directly to Hassan Nasrallah to stop "dividing Muslims" and to "lift the siege on Beirut," and accusing him of essentially treating fellow Lebanese as if they were Israel, i.e. The Enemy.
Jesus H. Christ. There are people shooting RPGs in the streets, and these assholes are too busy blaming each other to stop it.
The name is really only one syllable, with a first sound that's very hard for English-speakers to pronounce, sort of an AAA in the back of your throat, and the change between that sound and the OON that follows is what makes some people give it two syllables. So it's sort of exactly the way it looks: AAOUN. Or maybe AOWN. Or AAOON. But that first sound is hard to describe in writing.
