
Past Imperfect
A posthumously published memoir by Fouad Ajami shows that the author never truly broke with…
A posthumously published memoir by Fouad Ajami shows that the author never truly broke with…
In an interview, Karim Sadjadpour discusses Iran’s grand strategy, the Vienna nuclear negotiations, and more.…
In an interview, Ahmed Nagi explains what the establishment of a Presidential Council last week…
Syria is being drawn into a de facto coalition that may aim to limit Iran’s…
(Sir Gilbert Clayton anGeorge Antonius (in white suit) with King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud (centre),…
Saad al-Hariri may not run in Lebanon’s next elections, but writing him off may be…
By encouraging outside powers to have a stake in Lebanon, Hezbollah’s foes may create spaces…
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.…
Regional and international actors are accumulating cards to engage in a new Middle Eastern power…
What Happened? After more than a year of waiting, Lebanon has a new government. The…
Far from being exceptions, botched American withdrawals have tended to be the rule in the…
Hezbollah’s actions in the past year and a half have turned many Lebanese against the…
What Happened? Lebanon’s prime minister-designate, Saad al-Hariri, has announced he would withdraw from the government-formation process, after trying…
Hezbollah may accept a new government, but would be as pleased if the country’s social…
In an interview, Frederic Hof recalls how Bashar al-Assad undercut the party’s position on the…
In an interview, Ray Takeyh discusses his recent book on the reign of the late…
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.…
Is Hezbollah undermining its resistance by failing to address Lebanon’s many crises, as the late…
As the Biden administration enters office, several assumptions about the Middle East will have to…
A Biden administration may bring crisis-ridden Lebanon a reprieve, even if some things will remain…
In an interview, Michael Karam speaks about a new documentary on wine and war in…
As a tribunal prepares to announce a verdict in Rafiq al-Hariri’s assassination, the United Nations…
Conservative Republicans have unveiled a report that could have terrible consequences for a country already…
The party’s rejection of an IMF bailout may ultimately mean the end of Hassan Diab’s…
Beirut bishop’s terse exchange with the country’s Maronite president echoes the Christian community’s unhappiness with…
If the party opts for repression to silence the domestic scene, it might cause a…
Lebanon’s Sa‘d al-Hariri is facing a growing credibility problem that may prove to be fatal…
In an interview, former minister Nasser al-Saidi explains why Lebanon’s financial revival will be a…
By trying to preserve a corrupt political order, the pro-Iranian party is now identified with…
Just by getting rid of a dictator, Sudan’s protestors (as well as Algeria’s) have ended…
The decision of President Donald Trump to pull U.S. forces out of Syria has, predictably,…
New US legislation relating to the Iran-backed group casts a shadow over the future of…
A recent indictment prompts questions about the real value of the investigation and trial of…
In an interview, Yassin al-Haj Saleh describes how Syrians have been denied any meaning for…
All the signs are that Lebanon, come May, will postpone parliamentary elections for a third…
In his inaugural speech, president Donald Trump showed that one thing that would not preoccupy…
The regime in Iran must have mixed feelings about Russia. Though Moscow was essential in…
President Barack Obama’s support for a United Nations Security Council resolution opposing the construction of…
With the fall of eastern Aleppo to the forces backing Bashar Al Assad now…
Among the victims of the war in Syria during the past five years has been…
Lebanon’s recent municipal elections had more of a national dimension to them than usual. Because…
Ten years ago this week, our friend and colleague Samir Kassir was murdered outside his…
The latest story from Syria this week, published by The Daily Telegraph, was that Ali…