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With Lebanon’s government facing immense pressure on all sides, it is increasingly relying on negotiations to navigate its perilous and rapidly shifting environment.
Souhayb Jawhar
The Al-Sisi government’s new “National Narrative” promises a fresh development vision but largely echoes familiar economic prescriptions whose social and environmental implications remain deeply problematic.
Salma Hussein
A year after Assad’s fall, Syria is slowly emerging from immense devastation, making cautious but real progress toward stability despite major ongoing challenges.
Nader S. Kabbani
The UN-mandated International Stabilization Force for Gaza is likely to entrench rather than alleviate Gaza’s crisis—offering a vague, one-sided framework that sustains Israel’s control, limits aid and reconstruction, and risks trapping the territory in perpetual political and humanitarian purgatory.
Rob Geist Pinfold
Lebanon’s externally driven push to disarm Hezbollah reveals a deeper crisis of sovereignty, as the state lacks the legitimacy, institutional capacity, and public trust necessary to reclaim monopoly over force without risking deeper instability and communal backlash.
Joseph Daher, Sami Zoughaib, Sami Atallah
The Rapid Support Forces’ capture of El Fasher has unleashed grave abuses and deepened Sudan’s humanitarian crisis, while competing foreign backers and stalled international diplomacy leave little hope for a ceasefire or political transition.