Opinions

Between Two Catastrophes: The Lebanon We Have and the Lebanon We Deserve
What we have now is the possibility of a negotiation, and we must do everything…

Black Wednesday… Israel Bombs Lebanon Without Restraint
In Beirut, the strikes were not just distant sounds of explosions, but live scenes of…

Bones as Messages of Victory
“A selfie with a Druze skull behind me.” This was the caption used by an…

Nested Conflicts: Why Lebanon Cannot Negotiate Its Way Out of War
Any negotiations preserving a sense of “face” for Hezbollah would contradict the goals of the…

Farewell to the Lebanese Army
What is unfolding today is not simply the weakness of an institution, but the outcome…

America’s many “wars” on Iran !
The Trump administration seems not only unwilling to provide a consistent justification for its war…

The Third Frustration: The Shiite Nakba
This closure helps explain the state of confusion and delirium. The community senses that it…

From Killing of Journalists to Accusations of Treason: Lebanon in a Moment of Collapse
What makes the killing of fellow journalists even more brutal is what followed inside Lebanon.…

Let Us Be Defeated, Perhaps Defeat Is Survival
We may be defeated within the state, and this cannot be ignored or denied, especially…

Erasing the South, One Coordinate at a Time
At the heart of this are southerners whose homes have been destroyed more than four…
