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Talk and Plot: Teheran Double Game with the Sharaa Regime

Shaffaf Exclusive

When “law enforcement” looks like piracy: The Maduro seizure, Türkiye’s caution, and the “precedent” problem

Yusuf Kanli

The Financial Stabilization and Deposits Repayment Act: A Controversial Step in Lebanon’s Crisis Management

Samara Azzi

Why Ankara Sees Israels’s Latest Moves As A Strategic Challenge

Yusuf Kanli

Writing Off the State’s Debt to BDL Is Not Reform — It Is Amnesty by Another Name

Walid Sinno

Draining the Swamp, Not Chasing the Mosquitoes

Yusuf Kanli

Statement by BDL Governor on the Draft Financial Stabilization and Deposits Repayment Act (FSDR Act)

Karim Souaid

Is Türkiye Lebanon’s New Iran?

Mohanad Hage Ali

HEADLINES

Cash Economy

Lebanon’s Financial Gap Resolution Plan: Legalizing the Heist

Samara Azzi

The financial gap resolution plan announced by Nawaf’s government is being marketed as a path toward order, reform, and eventual…

It’s a Liquidity Problem, Not an Accounting Problem, Stupid

Samara Azzi

Banking Without Bankers: Why Lebanon Must End the Sub-Agent Experiment

Samara Azzi

Who Is Using the Hawala System in Lebanon — and Why It’s Growing

Samara Azzi

The Silence of the Lambs-Lebanon’s Leaders Look Away as One Man Stands Against the Storm

Samara Azzi

The Silence of the Lambs-Lebanon’s Leaders Look Away as One Man Stands Against the Storm

Samara Azzi

COMMENTARY

Lebanon’s banks are running out of excuses

Walid Sinno

Why There Will Never Be Another Einstein

John Horgan

Why We Are a Republic, Not a Democracy

Walter E. Williams

Bolsheviks, Khomeinists and Now Bibi: How Israelis Can Stop Netanyahu’s Messianic Dictatorship

Yuval Noah Harari

Magazine

Turkey in the Middle Eastern ‘swamp’

Hurriyet

(First published on METransparent on Jul 2, 2015) (An Ottoman heliograph section in the Charge at Huj in 1917,…

Yemen’s Arab Spring Left Its Air Force In Disarray

Aviation Week

The KGB’s Middle East Files: Palestinians in the service of Mother Russia

Ronen Bergman

No-shows at the Wedding

Salman Masalha

How Israel Can Solve Its Gaza Problem

Yossi Kuperwasser

Talk and Plot: Teheran Double Game with the Sharaa Regime

Shaffaf Exclusive

When “law enforcement” looks like piracy: The Maduro seizure, Türkiye’s caution, and the “precedent” problem

Yusuf Kanli

The Financial Stabilization and Deposits Repayment Act: A Controversial Step in Lebanon’s Crisis Management

Samara Azzi

Why Ankara Sees Israels’s Latest Moves As A Strategic Challenge

Yusuf Kanli

Writing Off the State’s Debt to BDL Is Not Reform — It Is Amnesty by Another Name

Walid Sinno

Draining the Swamp, Not Chasing the Mosquitoes

Yusuf Kanli

Statement by BDL Governor on the Draft Financial Stabilization and Deposits Repayment Act (FSDR Act)

Karim Souaid

Is Türkiye Lebanon’s New Iran?

Mohanad Hage Ali

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