Lebanon News & Analysis

Despite Israeli successes in eliminating Hezbollah’s leadership, the group still appears ready and able to conduct a prolonged war of attrition in southern Lebanon.

Escalating turmoil on Israel’s northern border underscores an urgent need for leaders who can transcend entrenched positions and envision a future free from perpetual conflict.

Exploring the destructive regional potential of a Hezbollah-Israel conflict, and what has kept such a conflict from breaking out so far.

Rule of law must prevail if Lebanon is to ever recover from its ongoing political and economic crises.

Third in a three-part series examining various efforts to uncover the truth behind the Beirut port explosion.

Second in a three-part series examining various efforts to uncover the truth behind the Beirut port explosion.

First in a two-part series examining various efforts to uncover the truth behind the Beirut port explosion.

Political infighting and a lack of technical capacity are combining to derail Lebanese efforts to provide justice to the victims of the Beirut port explosion of 2020.

Without accountability, Lebanon will never recover its former position as an economic powerhouse in the region. But decades of sectarian conflict continue to stymie positive reform.

Though it won’t be easy, a new census would go far in solving the country’s protracted political crisis.

The mismanagement of Lebanon is almost criminally negligent. But perhaps that’s the point.

How far can Lebanon’s institutions be stretched before they simply collapse? This year could have an answer.

These four reforms could help overcome the dysfunction of recent years and put the Lebanese economy back on a path toward rejuvenation.

Lebanon’s water crisis mirrors the country’s governance problems, and this tragic circumstance is by no means unique in the Middle East.

COVID-19 has disrupted food supply chains around the planet, with potentially destabilizing political consequences in the near-term.