Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.
Saad al-Hariri’s wager on a Sunni-Shi‘a partnership in the next phase is no less risky than was his alliance with Michel Aoun.
When Naim Attallah died recently, few remembered the role he played in one of the Middle East’s worst financial scandals.
There are several reasons for why the Houthis have no incentive to reach a peace agreement in Yemen.
Developments on the ground in Dar‘a show that instability is bound to continue in the governorate.
In an interview, Makram Rabah discusses his new book on the Druze-Maronite conflict in Lebanon’s civil war.
In an interview, David Chuter discusses his book on civil-military relations, which will be released in Arabic this week.
In an interview, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff recalls the movie he shot in Lebanon at the height of its civil war.
The assassination of Luqman Slim underlines that the scope for dissent in Lebanon is rapidly narrowing.
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.
In an interview, Salim Adib discusses Lebanon’s management of Covid-19, and expresses some hope for the future.
Once isolated globally, the African nation has become a target of interest for a variety of regional and international countries.
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