You will be given a trivia clue, and the category it belongs to. You should answer with the best answer that belongs in the category and is described by the clue. For simplicity, answers should be in all lower cased letters.

Category: HISTORIC ISLANDS 
Clue: A 900-year-old organization expelled in 1798 was allowed to return to this island in 1998
malta

Category: THE MIDDLE EAST 
Clue: By tradition, this nation's president is a Maronite Christian, the P.M. a Sunni & the speaker of the Parliament a Shiite
lebanon

Category: U.S. CITIES 
Clue: Massachusetts city named for an industrialist whose family included several poets & an astronomer

lowell