Now that Joe Biden is officially the 46th president of the United States, the main question for many Middle East watchers and policy makers, is not how his policy will differ from Trump’s maximum pressure policy, but whether he will repeat Barak Obama’s Middle East policy or create his own version, ...
Political Shiism – or what the Iranian regime refers to as “the axis of resistance,” have been establishing itself in the region, and spreading its roots. Its main rhetoric is resisting Israel and Western Influence, and secondly empowering the Shia to have equal political and economic opportunities....
During his recent Al-Mayadeen TV interview, Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke for four hours in an attempt to address questions and concerns by the Lebanese people and Hezbollah’s constituency. However, instead of reassuring the listeners, he raised additional concerns and insinuated that He...
Iranian dissident Ruhallah Zam – a journalist exiled in Paris – was kidnapped and assassinated by the Iranian regime earlier this month. Zam is known for his work that inspired much of the economic protests in 2017, and the Iranian authorities have been trying to track him for a long time, until the...
After Iran's top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated last Friday, many are wondering if Iran would retaliate, considering other attacks and security incidents that targeted Iran throughout this year, from the assassination of IRGC leader Qassem Soleimani in Iraq in January to recen...
When Hezbollah declared itself as a resistance movement in 1982, it didn’t create an original concept. The National Resistance Front – composed of Lebanese secular and leftist parties – was already there, but it was not as coherent and organized as Hezbollah’s upcoming Islamic resistance. However, i...
Lebanon is today a hundred years old, and it is standing at a crossroad that would mark its centennial and also determine its future. There are many options ahead, but only two will make or break Lebanon: the path of prosperity and openness to the world, or the path of resistance and isolation. Ther...
One day ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Lebanon, a new Prime Minister was designated to form a new government, which is supposed to deal with the most challenging time for Lebanon. Besides the economic collapse and inflation, the Beirut blast presented another layer of frustrati...
The mafia-militia nexus in Lebanon responded to the Beirut explosion in two ways. First, it brought about the government’s resignation, expecting this to quell anger on the street and earn international approval. But this strategy failed because the international community and the Lebanese street ...
Hezbollah has been under serious scrutiny by the Lebanese people in the past few weeks. At the group’s urging, the government continued to allow flights from coronavirus-stricken Iran as late as mid-March, despite calls from civil society figures and some political parties to suspend them. Even a...
