Some are pleased and some uneasy but Middle East leaders are all prepared to move on to Biden as the Trump presidency recedes in the rearview mirror.
Articles tagged: ‘Lebanon’
Lebanon’s anguish grows
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailWith another prime minister gone and Hezbollah blocking the effort to end sectarian government, the people of Lebanon continue to bear a terrible price for the failures of political leadership.
Media and propaganda in the Arab world
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailThe absolute control of media space in most Arab states effectively smothers freedom of expression and silences critics and opponents.
Macron in MENA
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Lebanon after the blast
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailMore than a month after the Beirut harbour explosion, Lebanon struggles to find hope and a way forward.
Lebanon’s path to a failed state
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailIn response to the port explosion donor countries are bypassing the government of Prime Minister Hassan Diab.
Lebanon’s agony
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailA massive explosion devastates Beirut; Israel denies any involvement. We also circulate below a transcript of last Friday’s podcast “The tactics of terror: ISIS and Al Qaeda in Yemen”.
Lebanon: politicians fiddle as the economy burns
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailA key ministerial resignation, a Covid-19 upsurge, an economy headed to ruin and a middle class slamming headfirst into poverty: Lebanon’s disaster unfolds.
MENA: Twenty years on
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailSummary: when set against today’s reality a snapshot of MENA in July 2000 proves a grim comparison. So are there any grounds for hope and optimism?
The US and the UAE squeeze Lebanon
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailWith Lebanon staring into an economic abyss, the Americans and the Emiratis apply pressure and make demands that the Lebanese cannot possibly fulfil.