Carnegie Middle East Center
Mohanad Hage Ali is the director of communications and a fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center.
Mohanad Hage Ali is the director of communications and a fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center. He was a managing editor of NOW Arabic website, and a political editor/reporter at al-Hayat newspaper in Beirut and London, where his work focused mostly on Iraq and militant Islam.
Mohanad teaches politics and journalism at the Lebanese American University and has an Msc. and a PhD in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Despite statements to the contrary, Lebanon’s political class seems unenthusiastic about forming a government today.
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.
Turkish influence is increasing in Lebanon, where many Sunnis are looking for a regional patron.
In an interview, Marwan Muasher looks at the long-term impact of the new coronavirus on the Middle East and North Africa.
As Lebanon’s economic crisis grows, Covid-19 may have just made an exodus from cities more attractive.
Istanbul has become a refuge for many Arab communities, but the city’s cosmopolitan ways are also changing them.
By becoming an active part of Lebanon’s loathed political class, Hezbollah has faced the wrath of protestors too.
The late British double agent’s Lebanese haunts still provoke the pleasures of reverie.
Ankara is dealing with the United States and Russia, but what is defining this treacherous triangle?
The ongoing offensive of the Syrian Army in Idlib is linked to the U.S.-Turkish rapprochement further east.
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