Paul Salem is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment.
Paul Salem was the director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon. He works and publishes on the regional and international relations of the Middle East as well as issues of political development and democratization in the Arab world.
Prior to joining Carnegie in 2006, Salem was the general director of the Fares Foundation, and from 1989 to 1999 he founded and directed the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, Lebanon’s leading public policy think tank. In 2002, Salem was a member of the senior review committee for the United Nations Development Program’s Arab Human Development Report. In 2006, he served as a member of the National Commission for Electoral Law Reform in Lebanon. He has also held various positions at the American University of Beirut. He is a frequent television and radio commentator on political issues relating to the Middle East and Arab world.
Salem is the author of a number of books and articles on the Middle East, including “Building Cooperation in the Eastern Middle East” (Carnegie, 2010) and “The Arab State: Assisting or Obstructing Development?” (Carnegie, 2010). He writes regularly in the Arab press and has been published in numerous journals, magazines, and newspapers, including Foreign Affairs, the National Interest, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Politico.
To better understand the financial challenges and the rise of debt ratios after Arab uprisings and how this was further precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war, and the rise in global interest rates, the MHKCKEC are organizing a joint event on Friday, April 14 from 05:00 p.m. till 06:30 p.m. (EEST)
The conference will consist of six virtual discussions that will provide a look ahead to 2021, focusing on what Carnegie scholars and other experts believe will be the most significant and challenging issues facing the Middle East and North Africa in their interaction with international actors.
A massive explosion in Beirut killed more than one hundred, wounded thousands, and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Now Lebanon finds itself in a severe political, economic, and humanitarian crisis. How can the people of Beirut rebuild their lives while still sheltering from a global pandemic?
A group of Lebanese economists, political scientists, and jurists met on November 1, 2019 to consider their priority recommendations on how to deal with the urgent financial and economic challenges that the country is facing at the moment.
In celebration of the Carnegie Middle East Center’s tenth anniversary, Carnegie-affiliated scholars and regional policymakers will discuss and evaluate political transformations in the Middle East and North Africa.
A decade after Saddam Hussein’s fall, Iraq still lacks a centralized foreign policy. Until Baghdad resolves the issues polarizing the country, Iraqi foreign policy will remain disjointed and incoherent.
The U.S.-Russian agreement on seizing and destroying Syria’s chemical weapons defused the threat of another war in the Middle East but left many wondering what it meant for the balance of power in the region, the course of the Syrian war, and the chances of further diplomatic breakthroughs.
In the wake of President Obama’s national address, U.S. allies and adversaries are struggling to assess the implications of the Russian proposal on Syria’s chemical weapons and what Washington’s next steps will be on Syria.
A military strike on Syria might deter the Assad regime from using chemical weapons again, but it is unlikely to be a game changer in the course of the Syrian conflict.
The bombardment in Homs is part of an effort by the Syrian regime and Hezbollah to try to secure a corridor that links the Damascus to the coast.