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Foreign Influence in Lebanon and the Third Miqati Premiership
Oct 13, 2021For the third time in 16 years, Prime Minister Najib Miqati comes to office as a consensus candidate in a country with deep divisions within the Lebanese polit…
- Policy Analysis
The Conflicted Role of Lebanon’s Central Bank
Oct 12, 2021Over the past few decades, public debt, sectarian nepotism, and fixed exchange rates have been three significant challenges to the Lebanese economy; albeit the…
- Webinar
Will Miqati’s New Government Be Able to Deliver for Lebanon?
,Miqati’s government has the Herculean task of correcting the course of Lebanon to prevent the full collapse of its political, economic, social, and security in…
- Viewpoint
No Rest for the Weary: Lebanon’s Miqati Must Hit the Ground Running
Sep 10, 2021Najib Miqati, the billionaire tasked over a year ago with forming the Lebanese government, has finally finished putting it together, but not before President M…
- Policy Analysis
Lebanon’s Energy Crisis Fuels US-Iran Tensions
Aug 25, 2021In the midst of an economic collapse and an energy crisis, Lebanon has found itself in a tug of war between the United States and Iran. On August 19, Hezbollah…
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Hezbollah Is Not Interested in a War with Israel
Aug 11, 2021As Lebanon reels from seemingly unsolvable political, economic, social, and security crises, an exchange of rocket and artillery fire on August 6th between Hez…
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A Year after the Beirut Explosion, a Dreaded Civil War in Lebanon
Aug 3, 2021Events over the last few days in Lebanon portended a serious escalation in sectarian tensions and a possible widespread resort to arms that could quickly lead …
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Lebanon in Crisis
Jul 29, 2021Mona Harb joins host Yousef Munayyer to discuss Lebanon’s collapsing economy and the oligarchy’s control over the country, as well as the lasting effects of th…
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Youth in Lebanon: Policy Narratives, Attitudes, and Forms of Mobilization
Jun 17, 2021IntroductionAs Lebanon is undergoing one of the worst economic and financial collapses in the world, one that was caused by the deliberate inaction1 of its rul…
- Policy Analysis
Hezbollah in Moscow: Russia Flexes Its Diplomatic Muscles
Apr 14, 2021In a medium-sized van with no bodyguards, on a rainy March 15, 2021, a Hezbollah delegation quietly walked into the Russian Foreign Ministry building in Moscow…
- Policy Analysis
Lebanon Faces a Civil War, a Prospect of Its Own Making
Mar 23, 2021The socioeconomic and political crises gripping Lebanon today are unprecedented in the country’s 100-year history, one that has witnessed intercommunal unrest …