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Published in: HomeLebanon’s worsening strifePolitically, the country is a melting pot of regional and highly localised concerns, playing out along axes of...
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Published in: openSecurityBeirut's schizophrenic identityThe Syrian civil war is spilling into Lebanon and drawing Beirut’s schizophrenic sectarian identity to the surface.
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Published in: HomeNon-state actors in Lebanon
Combined with the warnings of the collapse of state institutions and proliferation of corruption as a result of the...
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Published in: HomeDrawn into conflict: the war in Syria and the consequences for the Lebanese economy
As the Syrian conflict spills over the border, the Lebanese tourist and trade sectors have taken a hit. It is...
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Published in: HomeThe question of sectarianism in Middle East politics
Everywhere the Arab uprisings have been confronted by the entrenched vested interests of old regimes, the so-called...
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Published in: HomeThis week's window on the Middle East - July 10, 2013
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East....
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Published in: HomeWhat is happening to civil society in a disunited Lebanon?
Most popular frustration is aimed at the nexus of corruption between political elites, party militias, and the legal...
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Published in: HomeThe Islamic state in contextAlmost by default, the swelling numbers of young Arabs, especially in the culturally vibrant centres of the Arab...
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Published in: HomeAl-Assir: the runaway sheikh
In the wake of this episode, the Lebanese are well aware of the aphorism attributed to Trotsky, “you may not be...
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Published in: HomeThis week's window on the Middle East - July 1, 2013Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East....
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Published in: HomeThis week's window on the Middle East - June 26, 2013Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East....
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Published in: HomeLebanon: the changing role of sectarianism
Clashes in Sidon demonstrate fragmentation within sects, as Sunni Sheikh Assir’s isolated battle against the...
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Published in: HomeThis week's window on the Middle East - June 19, 2013Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East....
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Published in: HomeFitna at the gates
Despite it all, Hezbollah remains a key constituent of the weak and de-facto decentralised state - the legitimate...
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Published in: HomeThis week's window on the Middle East - June 10, 2013
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East....
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Published in: HomeConstraints on the internet in Lebanon
Freedom of speech stakes are far higher in Lebanon than other countries, owing to the tightrope walk along the...
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Published in: HomeThe beginning of the end for Hezbollah? Nasrallah’s strategic mistake
When the Assad regime is ultimately defeated, Hezbollah will have lost the majority of its military hardware, a...
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Published in: HomeWhat does the increasing power of Hezbollah mean to the Lebanese state?
Their actions in Al-Qusayr hurl them far closer to the category of regional militant force, as the architects of a...
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Published in: HomeSyria and pressing concerns for the region
While the Geneva talks, if they are actually held, are tipped to fail, a political settlement may well be the only...
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Published in: HomeBetween murder and resistance
The young men of the Lebanese “Islamic Resistance”, who today participate – based on the confirmation of their...
