Author Michael Young

As expected, the summit between the Lebanese and Syrian presidents, Michel Sleiman and Bashar Assad,…

By this time, you will have heard what happened to former White House correspondent Helen…

As Israel stumbles to limit the fallout from its foolish, violent handling of the Gaza…

Washington seems listless these days when it comes to the Middle East. The Obama administration…

In his book “What’s Left,” the British author Nick Cohen quotes a onetime Foreign Office…

No one could fail to notice that it was a Syrian spokesperson, Wi’am Wahhab, who…

Some will argue that the United Kingdom’s expulsion this week of an Israeli diplomat, by…

There was a revealing moment last Saturday in the interview conducted by Al-Jazeera’s Ghassan bin…

Why is it that only days before Iraq’s parliamentary elections, we’re getting no sense of…

An interesting news item has appeared lately in several Arabic newspapers, including the local Al-Liwaa.…

The Lebanese government, cobbled together from disparate elements, has had a predictably fitful start. However,…

The debate over whether to attend the commemoration this weekend of Rafik Hariri’s assassination has…

When a mass murderer dies, it is usually an anticlimax. At his hanging this week,…

There was something vaguely surrealistic in the Lebanese government’s response on Tuesday to the reservations…

Only days after it was announced that the chief investigator, Neguib “Nick” Kaldas, would soon…

The statement released Thursday by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon announcing that its chief investigator,…

In his Ashoura speech this past weekend, Hizbullah’s secretary general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, irritated many…

Below the Future Television offices in Kantari, there is a digital counter to record the…

In the shambles that is the Maronite leadership, Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir has over the years…

Next week, US President Barack Obama will announce his new strategy for Afghanistan. After a…

The death of the Independence Intifada of 2005 has been prematurely announced many times. However,…

As the permanent members of the UN Security Council, along with Germany, prepare for a…

So it’s as clear as a bomb explosion on St. Valentine’s Day: Lebanon’s government crisis…

We’ve reached the point where we can assume that virtually everything currently being said about…

There is great discomfort these days among those who backed Barack Obama’s “new” approach to…

Allow me, despairing reader, to cite from Bashar Assad’s speech of March 5, 2005, before…

Did Walid Jumblatt really need to drop his political bomb last Sunday at the Beau…

The news on Wednesday from Nabih Berri was that we are closer to a new…

As prospects increase for a conflict over Iran’s nuclear program, Hizbullah and Israel are clearing…

When Walid Jumblatt visited Hassan Nasrallah recently in a catacomb of Beirut’s southern suburbs, he…

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It’s the kind of person that Amine Gemayel is that he had two sons, one…

Much indignation has been voiced in recent days against the actions of the Al-Manar website…

The barrage of verbal attacks organized by the opposition against Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir is…

Michel Aoun’s yawning emptiness was on display a few weeks before the parliamentary elections, when…

With three days left until Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, it’s difficult not to get caught up…

The article published in Der Spiegel accusing Hizbullah of being behind the assassination of the…

Last Saturday, Audette Salem was hit by a car, and died soon afterward in hospital.…

It is a sign of the confusion in Lebanon’s Christian community today, particularly the Maronite…

The release of four Lebanese generals by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon considering the murder…

Walid Jumblatt is rapidly becoming a star of the portable telephone screen. After being filmed…

The killing of four Lebanese soldiers on Monday reawakens some old thoughts about a phenomenon…

Two months away from Lebanon’s elections, we can begin to discern clarity amid the vapors…

I first met Kamal Medhat, whom I always knew as Kamal Naji, in early 2007,…

In 2007, Marcel Ghanem hosted a program commemorating the 25th anniversary of the assassination of…

You can say many disparaging things about the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, but he…

Much attention was paid last week to the run-in the British-American author and journalist Christopher…

We were delighted to realize last week that Daniel Bellemare, the head of the United…

Leave it to the Israelis and Palestinians to extinguish the heavenly light that accompanied Barack…

Daily Star staff In his book “The Arabists”, Robert D. Kaplan describes an episode after…