Carnegie Middle East Center
Gebran Bassil and Saad al-Hariri have existential political fears, but their stubbornness could undermine their ambitions.
Might the Arab states hand Lebanon over to Syria as compensation for distancing itself from Iran?
In an interview, Frederic Hof recalls how Bashar al-Assad undercut the party’s position on the Shebaa Farms.
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Lebanon and Syria are using the fate of Syrian refugees to advance their economic and political agendas.
Despite statements to the contrary, Lebanon’s political class seems unenthusiastic about forming a government today.
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Is Hezbollah undermining its resistance by failing to address Lebanon’s many crises, as the late Anis Naccash implied?
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.
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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.