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Michael Young is the editor of Diwan and a senior editor at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center.
Michael Young is a senior editor at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut and editor of Diwan, Carnegie’s Middle East blog.
Previously, he was opinion editor, as well as a columnist, for the Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon. He writes a biweekly commentary for the National (Abu Dhabi) and is author of The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle. The book was selected by the Wall Street Journal as one of its ten notable books of 2010, and won the Silver Prize in the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s book prize competition of 2010.
He is a graduate of the American University of Beirut and of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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The path out of Lebanon’s presidential impasse remains unclear, highlighting the boundaries of Hezbollah’s influence.
In an interview, Yezid Sayigh argues that a recent IMF loan to Egypt did little to reduce the military’s role in the economy.
A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
In an interview, Michael Vatikiotis discusses the Levant’s lost cosmopolitanism and how it influenced his own family.
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.
In an interview, Hussein Ibish discusses why U.S.-Saudi relations have deteriorated so rapidly.
We may be nearing the stage where Lebanon can have any president it wants, as long as his last name is Aoun.
In an interview, Nur Arafeh examines the current critical moment in Palestine, and speculates as to how the future may unfold.
The collapse of a six-month truce bodes ill for an already battered country.
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