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From Fairouz’s Beirut to the new Levant: Turkiye hedges amid alliance, escalation and great-power bargaining

Yusuf Kanli

Rebuilding Lebanon—or Rebuilding Hezbollah’s Finances?

Samara Azzi

Statement Issued by Former Deputy Prime Minister and Member of Parliament Ghassan Hasbani

Ghassan Hasbani

Red snow is the wrong test: Turkiye and Israel do not want war, but Syria could still give them one

Yusuf Kanli

Banque du Liban: Reform Must Not Become a Redistribution of Power

Shaffaf Exclusive

Faqra: Proof That Lebanon Isn’t Broke — Just Complicated

Samara Azzi

Years of Fire

Michael Young

Banking Reform or a Redistribution of Influence?: How Hizbullah is using the IMF induced-reforms

Samara Azzi

HEADLINES

Cash Economy

Hezbollah Crypto Fundraising Probe Highlights Lebanon’s Expanding Unregulated Digital Finance Ecosystem

An investigation by Nominis and Coleven, a non-profit that maps the financial layer of terror networks, has uncovered a cryptocurrency…

USDT’s Rise in Lebanon Is Accelerating an Unseen Dollar Drain

The Stablecoin Paradox: How Crypto Is Powering Both Financial Freedom and Terror Financing in Lebanon

Fiscal Discipline for Some, Flexibility for Others: Lebanon’s IMF Dilemma

Lebanon Must Prioritise Depositors Before Politics Delays Reform Again

The Art of Deal with D-Evil

COMMENTARY

Trump’s Gambit: Force all cards open.

When The Founder’s House is Raided

Roaring Lion Plan Revealed

Why peace talks with Israel pose a threat to Hezbollah

Magazine

Turkish cannot go back to Arabic script

“We had a language which was very suitable for science; yet we slept over it one night and the next morning…

FROM CYPRUS TO GREENLAND: CAN HISTORY BE REPEATED IN A FRACTURING INTERNATIONAL ORDER?

Three years later: the rubble still speaks

Cyprus at a dual inflection point: Symbolism, fragmentation, and the politics of recalibration

Turkey in the Middle Eastern ‘swamp’