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Issue Fifty (50)

Issue Forty Nine (49)

Issue Forty Eight (48)

Issue Forty Seven (47)

Safe Borders or an Unsafe Future?

n an unusual gesture for a Lebanese president, 83-year-old President Michel Aoun, who commanded the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) from 1984 to 1989, took it upon himself to drop by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) on May 17, 2017.

Lebanon’s Irreversible Slow but Steady Relapse…

Until a couple months ago, Lebanon’s supposed political crisis could be described as its parliament's inability to convene and elect a new president. However, on October 31 last year ...

Issue Forty Six (46)

In the Shadow of Aleppo’s Fall, Hezbollah Grows New Wings

On December 21, 2016, a spokesperson from the U.S. Department of State denied Israeli allegations that Hezbollah was using armored vehicles provided to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) by the United States.

Issue Forty Five (45)

Issue Forty Four (44)

Ending Lebanon’s Presidential Vacancy

Two Despite the rocambolesque nature of its four rounds of elections, Lebanon finally has a new president. He is none other than General Michel Aoun, who was born in Haret Hreik in 1935.

Issue Forty Three (43)

Saudi Arabia Breaks Its Own Lebanese Taboos

Two chief factors usually come to mind regarding the nature of the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Hezbollah.

Issue Forty Two (42)

Reviewing what we think we know about Lebanon

The introduction to this report, part of a USIP-funded endeavor, is titled “Stability vs. Instabilities.

Issue Forty One (41)

Linking The Capitals of “Resistance”

It is never advisable to begin a new year by passing along bad news. Nevertheless, reporting bad news as it becomes available—whenever that may be—could help prevent the creation of even worse news later.

Issue Forty (40)

Issue Thirty Nine (39)

Taking Some Stock of the Lebanese Garbage Protests

Who knew that garbage was so attractive? Well, there's no longer any doubt about it in Beirut.

Issue Thirty Eight (38)

Summary Results of a Nationwide Poll15 questions for the Lebanese Shia Community

Compared to Lebanon’s many other communities, the image held typically by members of its Shia community is that it is essentially a “closed society.”

Issue Thirty Seven (37)

The Perplexity of being a Better Royalist than the King… Quo Vadis Hezbollah?

Less than 24 hours after Saudi Arabia announced that it had commenced operation “Storm of Decisiveness” (March 26) ...

Issue Thirty Six (36)

Lebanon 2005 – 2015 …Still in the “Syrian Time Zone”

The many commemorative events scheduled to take place during 2015 include the tenth anniversaries of Rafic Hariri’s assassination ...

Issue Thirty Five (35)

Hezbollah's Efforts to Safeguard its Image

Near the end of a two and a half hour interview with Hezbollah’s secretary general broadcast January 15 by al-Mayadeen television ...

Issue Thirty Four (34)

Bearing the High Cost of Iran’s Multifaceted Ambitions

Iran’s Sepah Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards) confirmed several days ago that one of its generals was killed

Issue Thirty Three (33)

Approaching the 40th Anniversary of April 13, 1975

As Beirut was preparing to ring in the New Year, an explosion rocked the city on December 27, 2013.

Achieving an Open, Quantitative and Community-Based Understanding of Lebanon's Shia CommunityPolling Dahiyeh

As Hezbollah's military, political and organizational capabilities ...

Issue Thirty Two (32)

The “Dispenser Policy”

Although a complete accounting of what really happened in Arsal beginning August 2 has not been given by Lebanese political and military authorities ...

Issue Thirty One (31)

Shouhadaa Wanted!

A running joke is that only the Quds Brigades accountant is sure of how many Lebanese Shia affiliated within Hezbollah’s military ...

Issue Thirty (30)

Learning to Interpret "Bad Things" as "Good News" The Limits of Lebanon's Domestic Entente

Near midnight Beirut time on June 23, just when the World Cup match between Cameroon and Brazil had reached one of its peaks

Issue Twenty Nine (29)

Lebanon's Presidential Vacancy: Is It Really about Filling a Position? Followed by: Lebanon's Vacuum vs. Syrian Saturation

Islamic theology holds that two kinds of jihad exist: large and small.

Issue Twenty Eight (28)

THE BIG SALEThe True Cost of Maintaining Lebanon's "Stability"

On April 19, 2014, a meeting chaired by Lebanon's March 14 (and more precisely by pro-Future, Sunni Minister of Interior Nohad al-Machnouk)

No Authority That Overlooks Lebanon's Political Diversity Shall Be LegitimateOpen Letter to His Excellency the President of the Republic from a Group of Lebanese (Shia) Citizens

Issue Twenty Seven (27)

Snapshots of 2013The Twilight of Lebanon's Myths...

Throughout 2013, the ephemeral concept of "stability" for Lebanon remained the primary preoccupation for everyone with an interest in the country.

Issue Twenty Six (26)

One Embassy for Another... Examining the Twist in This Drama

he conclusion to the lines above, excerpted from one of the first “self-historiographic” essays to focus on Hezbollah

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