Interview: On the end of the Syrian war and the “post-imperial Middle East” (Part 2)

  Interview by Patrick Lawrence in Salon. Read Part 1 here. In part one of my exchange with Sharmine Narwani, the Continue reading →

Hezbollah doesn’t attack America, it’s the other way around

Read this article in French too. Western-backed militants are in retreat, Bashar al-Assad remains president, Hezbollah has stretched its wings Continue reading →

Israel’s Mideast reality check

Read this article in French, Arabic and Portuguese. Tel Aviv has had a bad few weeks. A once favorable regional balance Continue reading →

An Obituary on Lebanon’s ‘Cedar Revolution’

Ten years ago this week, one million Lebanese – a quarter of Lebanon’s population – congregated in downtown Beirut at Continue reading →

There is no ‘middle’ in the Middle East today (Interview)

I was recently interviewed by a new European online publication called we-magazine that has rolled out an issue on the Continue reading →

“Security Arc” forms amidst Mideast terror

Read this article in Arabic and Italian. Many observers are correct in noting that the Middle East is undergoing yet another Continue reading →

Forget Democrazy, Give me Safe Borders

Almost three years after the Arab Spring began its region-wide sweep – ostensibly in search of democratic change – scant Continue reading →

“Bandar ibn Israel”

The recent acts of political violence in the Middle East’s Levant are not unrelated. Car bombings in the predominantly Shia Continue reading →