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An Old Lebanese Habit

As with Lebanon’s other sects, has Hezbollah’s hubris brought devastating sectarian nemesis?

· November 13, 2024
commentary
Diwan
The Palestinian Struggle Needs to be Reimagined

The U.S. election result and Yahya Sinwar’s death are markers that the contemporary national movement is moribund.

· November 12, 2024
commentary
Diwan
Complicit in the Middle East’s Distress

In an interview, Marwan Muasher looks back on U.S. policy toward the ongoing crisis, and sees even worse ahead.

· November 8, 2024
commentary
Diwan
The Sinwar Delusion

The death of the Hamas leader cannot conceal the fact that unilateral Israel actions are making peace in Gaza less likely.

· October 22, 2024
In The Media
in the media
Yezid Sayigh on Escalation in Southern Lebanon

Yezid Sayigh discusses the developments in the middle east and the escalation in Lebanon.

· October 18, 2024
CNN
In The Media
in the media
The End of Hamas?

A discussion with Yezid Sayigh about why he sees Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October as an inflection point both for the Palestinian movement and global history.

· October 17, 2024
The LRB Podcast (London Review of Books)
commentary
Diwan
What “Day After” for Israel?

The Jewish state has joined Arab countries in seeing its foundational social contract displaced by “forever wars.”

· October 7, 2024
In The Media
in the media
What Was Possible Before October 7th and What Remains Possible Now

Israel still doesn’t have a clear and coherent political end goal.

· October 7, 2024
New Yorker
Smoke rising from among houses
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Emissary
Israel’s and Hezbollah’s Default Option: Keep Fighting

Political calculations on both sides make a ceasefire unlikely.

· September 26, 2024
commentary
Diwan
A Rumor of War

Israeli officials have spoken repeatedly about an imminent military campaign against Lebanon, but things are more complicated.

· September 17, 2024