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Lebanon faces mounting pressure to resume talks with Israel despite internal divisions, ongoing attacks, and disputes over Hezbollah’s role and national consensus.
Souhayb Jawhar
A new flood of displaced people in Lebanon faces shrinking access to shelter, protection, and the possibility of return. Their plight reflects not only Israeli policy but systemic failure at both the national and international levels.
Maysa Baroud
Israel’s expanding war in Lebanon is unfolding alongside a domestic crisis over who controls the country’s decisions of war and peace. As Hezbollah confronts Israel on the battlefield, the Lebanese state is challenging the legitimacy of the group’s military activities—opening an unprecedented struggle over the state’s monopoly on arms.
Souhayb Jawhar
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
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 neighboring countries share a tortured past based on superiority and subjugation. Yet recent political transformations in both countries have provided an opportunity to reset ties, should they have the courage and foresight to seize it.