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.
In an interview, Makram Rabah discusses his new book on the Druze-Maronite conflict in Lebanon’s civil war.
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.
In an interview, David Linfield argues that international donors are benefiting existing power structures in the Middle East.
Twenty years on, a film by Lebanese director Jean Chamoun remains as relevant as ever.
A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
University students around Lebanon are voting for candidates who oppose the country’s sectarian establishment parties.
Giving women greater leadership roles might be the antidote to Lebanon’s governing crisis.
On Lebanon’s Independence Day, the question has meaning for a population whose leaders are masters of the meaningless.
A Biden administration may bring crisis-ridden Lebanon a reprieve, even if some things will remain the same.
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.
Lebanon’s ad hoc approach to its myriad economic shocks will leave scars that are long-lasting.
In an interview, Robert G. Rabil describes Turkey’s relations with Lebanon and its ambitions in the wider Middle East.
If Hezbollah seeks a change in the country’s political system, its weapons will not help it to do so.
In an interview, Kawthar Dara discusses how regional disparities have added to Lebanon’s fragility.
In Ba‘lbek-Hermel, there was support for the Lebanese uprising until the main Shi‘a parties gained the upper hand.