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Published in: HomePalestine, peoples and borders in the new Middle East mapToday’s Sunni/Shiite regional war is the direct product of the Bush/Blair war on Iraq. The divide is all the more...
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Published in: HomeSyrian crisis now a global affairThe outcome of the Syrian crisis, no matter what that might be, will delimit the new Middle East in a way that will...
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Published in: openSecurityMemories of war in the divided cityThe dilapidated buildings which dot downtown Beirut are constant reminders of what existed before, what was...
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Published in: openSecurityThe alliance of media and humanitarianism in Lebanon
With the growing Syrian refugee crisis, media entrepreneurs seem to care more about protecting the orthodox morality...
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Published in: openSecurityShare the pieA new social contract is needed in Syria. The Syrian people need to be treated like adults, individuals who are...
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Published in: openSecuritySolving the Syrian riddleThe only Arab country where protests started from rural areas might find itself facing an internationally funded...
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Published in: openSecurityThe second destruction: Syria and the upcoming reconstructionThe Syrian social movement has to be conscious of the necessity of establishing a just economy. Strong checks need...
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Published in: openSecurityBeirut: the spaces in between
Film: A short film documenting Beirut's dwindling public spaces.
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Published in: HomeSidon’s Salafist Sheikh: the roar of the Sunni lion
Heightened security has so far managed to contain the Sheikh’s roving and provocative marches.
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Published in: openSecurityA shot at utopia: assessing Lebanon's challenges in the race for Mediterranean oil wealth
Lebanon's plans to harnass the vast oil and gas reserves off its shores already reveal familiar echoes of past...
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Published in: HomeSpectre of the Syrian spillover haunts Lebanon
It was only a matter of time before Hezbollah would also join in the fight out of loyalty to a regime dubbed by...
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Published in: openSecurityIn conversation: Syria in perspective
Fawaz Gerges and Rosemary Hollis with Robin Yassin-Kassab at the openDemocracy conference Syria's peace: what, how,...
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Published in: openSecurityWarspace: Geographies of conflict in BeirutThe series of conflicts that besieged Beirut during the Lebanese civil war have radically reconfigured the social...
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Published in: HomeLebanon: the right to civil marriage and the frenzied fatwa
Rather than fly to nearby Cyprus to tie the knot, Nidal Darwiche and Khouloud Sukkarieh, supported by lawyer Talal...
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Published in: openSecurityIslamic 'Resistance' in the southern suburbs of Beirut
Islamic Resistance is normally understood as military activism: armed actors using the same ideology and undertaking...
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Published in: HomeMaking schools safe
To really make schools safe, we’d have to turn them into fortified enclaves, with perimeters of concrete, sandbags...
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Published in: HomeRemote control, a new way of war
The proliferating use of armed drones is but part of a wider and dangerous shift in the nature of 21st-century warfare.
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Published in: HomePalestinians escaping Syria find little relief in Lebanon
People whose lives have been decimated by conflict should receive as much assistance as we can give them. Yet...
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Published in: HomeLebanon: seeking an escape from eternal confrontation
If history offers a lesson it is that no one group in Lebanon can eliminate or subdue the other. The challenge is...
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Published in: HomePope’s visit to Lebanon puts spotlight on Christians in the Middle East
As sectarian tensions grow throughout the Middle East the fate of the region’s Christians is a growing cause for...
