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Lifting US Sanctions on Syria: A New Chapter for Damascus and Beirut?
Jul 18, 2025In a May 13, 2025, speech in Riyadh, President Donald Trump surprised the world by pledging to lift all US sanctions on Syria. Trump’s unexpected announcement …
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Resumption of Beirut Port Blast Investigation Offers Lebanon New Hope
May 15, 2025Nearly five years after the devastating explosion at the Port of Beirut that killed some 220 people, injured some 7,000, and left a large portion of the city i…
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Out With the Old, In With the New: Is There a New Hope for Lebanon?
Feb 6, 2025Following a surprising appointment as Lebanon’s new prime minister, independent jurist, academic, and former diplomat Nawaf Salam, finds himself enmeshed in th…
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How Will 2025 Be Different in the Middle East? Perspectives on the New Year
Jan 15, 2025The monumental events that took place in the Middle East in 2024 augur radical changes in the region’s geopolitical environment. Israel’s ongoing genocidal war…
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Lebanon’s Post-Hezbollah “Day After”
Jan 7, 2025The surprising fall of the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria on the heel of Hezbollah’s spectacular losses and, with it, the tremendous weakening of Ir…
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Lebanon’s Health System: Decades of Struggle and a Year of Israeli Attacks
Jan 2, 2025On September 17 and 18, 2024, a coordinated Israeli attack turned pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon into explosive devices, killing at least 42 people and i…
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LebanonIdentity Politics and SectarianizationHezbollah’s Likely Demise and Lebanon’s Uncertain Future
Dec 4, 2024Patricia KaramIsrael's approval of a US-brokered ceasefire with Hezbollah set the stage for an end to fourteen months of fighting between the two parties, ushering in the po…
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Gaza and Lebanon: No Distinction Between Civilian and Military Targets
Nov 22, 2024One of the consequences of the present Israeli war on Gaza has been the blatant erosion of respect for and belief in international legal principles and institu…
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Important Conclusions from Israel’s Wars on Palestine and Lebanon
Oct 25, 2024It is hard to overemphasize the importance of Israel’s killing of Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and Chairman of Hamas’s Political Bureau Yahya…
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GCC Responses to Israeli Aggression on Lebanon: Strategic Concerns and Regional Implications
Oct 9, 2024The positions of the GCC countries toward Israel's war on Lebanon are appear divided. All share a deep concern about escalation and its potential impact on the…
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The War Israel Wants but Hezbollah Rejects
Sep 20, 2024The Israeli war on Hezbollah has just entered another deadly phase characterized by the sophisticated, but criminally minded, use of cyber warfare to detonate …
