Lebanon

Terrorism & Extremism

Hezbollah’s dilemmas

Daniel L. Byman

November 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attend an Arab summit, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 16, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Order from Chaos

Rights as realism in the Middle East

Steven Heydemann

Monday, July 25, 2022

Houthi supporters demonstrate against Saudi-led air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen January 21, 2022. REUTERS/Adel Al-Khadher

Order from Chaos

The Houthis have won in Yemen: What next?

Bruce Riedel

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gesture during a rally commemorating the annual Hezbollah Martyrs' Day in Nabatieh, Lebanon, November 11, 2021. REUTERS/Aziz Taher

Order from Chaos

Is Hezbollah overplaying its hand inside Lebanon?

Stephanie T. Williams

Friday, November 19, 2021

Reports

Israel

Israel in the Middle East: The next two decades

Natan Sachs and Kevin Huggard

November 2020

Report

Not likely to go home: Syrian refugees and the challenges to Turkey—and the international community

Elizabeth Ferris and Kemal Kirişci

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Report

Israel and the Changing Middle East

Itamar Rabinovich

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Report

Hezbollah in a Time of Transition

Daniel L. Byman and Bilal Y. Saab

Monday, November 17, 2014

Report

Preventing a New Displacement for Palestinian Double Refugees

Ibrahim Fraihat

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Blog Posts

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat acknowledges applause during a Joint Session of Congress in which U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced the results of the Camp David Accords, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 18, 1978. Library of Congress/Warren K. Leffler/Handout via REUTERS

Order from Chaos

What Anwar Sadat’s murder 40 years ago meant for the Middle East

Bruce Riedel

Friday, October 1, 2021

Syrian refugees walk near tents at an informal tented settlement in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon March 12, 2021. Picture taken March 12, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Future Development

Why Syrian refugees in Lebanon are a crisis within a crisis

Omer Karasapan and Sajjad Shah

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Activist and volunteer, part of the Cannabico Mexican Movement, waters marijuana plants, inside the protest cannabis garden next to Mexico's Senate building during a call for legalization in Mexico City, Mexico September 24, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

Order from Chaos

Mexico’s cannabis legalization, and comparisons with Colombia, Lebanon, and Canada

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

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Events

2021

Oct

Past Event

The evolution of nonstate armed actors in the Middle East

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

A decade of protests: Why governance reform is critical in the Arab World

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM AST

US policy in the Middle East: A conversation with Assistant Secretary of State David Schenker

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM EDT

Online Only

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Experts

Steven Heydemann

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

SHeydemann

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Multimedia

A vehicle blocks a road during a protest against the fall in Lebanese pound currency and mounting economic hardships in Khaldeh, Lebanon March 8, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

United Nations

The risk of accidental war

Jeffrey Feltman and Adam Cooper

The Mediator's Studio

Thursday, March 4, 2021

American paratrooper cleans his gun at Army base camp in Beirut, Lebanon. Credit: Library of Congress

Order from Chaos

Highlights: Experts discuss the first-ever US military intervention in the Middle East

Juliann Li

Thursday, November 21, 2019

U.S. Marine sits in a foxhole and points a machine gun towards Beirut, Lebanon, in the distance

Podcast Episode

Beirut 1958: America’s first Middle East intervention

Bruce Riedel and Bill Finan

Friday, November 1, 2019

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Lebanon

Hezbollah’s dilemmas

Rights as realism in the Middle East

The Houthis have won in Yemen: What next?

Is Hezbollah overplaying its hand inside Lebanon?

Reports

Israel in the Middle East: The next two decades

Not likely to go home: Syrian refugees and the challenges to Turkey—and the international community

Israel and the Changing Middle East

Hezbollah in a Time of Transition

Preventing a New Displacement for Palestinian Double Refugees

Blog Posts

What Anwar Sadat’s murder 40 years ago meant for the Middle East

Why Syrian refugees in Lebanon are a crisis within a crisis

Mexico’s cannabis legalization, and comparisons with Colombia, Lebanon, and Canada

Events

The evolution of nonstate armed actors in the Middle East

A decade of protests: Why governance reform is critical in the Arab World

US policy in the Middle East: A conversation with Assistant Secretary of State David Schenker

Experts

Steven Heydemann

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Multimedia

The risk of accidental war

Highlights: Experts discuss the first-ever US military intervention in the Middle East

Beirut 1958: America’s first Middle East intervention

More on Lebanon

Collective memory and amnesia after the war in Lebanon

Lebanon needs a new start

Staring into the Abyss: Where does Lebanon go from here?

Lebanon as Paradise Lost

Debating UN peacekeeping in Lebanon

Lebanon’s latest reform-for-support plan