1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (541+ words) Portrait of Yusuf Ibrahim Sader (18701953), legal expert and publisher, Beirut, 1920s. SADER LEGAL ARCHIVES." Little survives in Beirut today to preserve the memory of this founding moment. The Petit S'rail was demolished in 1950, and no public monument honours the birth of…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (377+ words) The Sanctions Message: Hezbollah's Power Runs Through Lebanon's Own Institutions The U. S. Treasury's decision to sanction Ahmad Asaad Baalbaki, Amal's security director, is not merely another strike against Hezbollah's political ecosystem. It is a warning that Washington is now looking at…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago  (300+ words) There is a particular kind of political theatre Lebanon has perfected over decades, the kind where a real crisis is addressed with a performative solution, and everyone in the room agrees to pretend the difference doesn't matter. The current debate…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (1019+ words) The latest round of Lebanon-Israel talks in Washington has unfolded just days before the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was due to expire. The two-day negotiations led to a renewed 45-day ceasefire." The meetings, described as the third round of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (693+ words) Lebanon's prisons are severely overcrowded, holding thousands of detainees, many of whom have been imprisoned before receiving a fair trial. A new General Amnesty Law seeks to ease pressure on the justice system, but the legislation has become a battleground…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (299+ words) Start with the names. Israel sent Ron Dermer." Dermer is not a diplomat in any conventional sense, he is Benjamin Netanyahu's political brain, the architect of Israeli-American elite relationships, a man who does not get deployed to procedural exercises. His…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1027+ words) There is an old Arabic saying: whoever repeats a failed experiment must be sick in the head. "It applies perfectly to Lebanon today, as the country stands before a defining moment: between the logic of the state and the logic…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (435+ words) There is a particular kind of political cowardice that dresses itself as dignity. It refuses to negotiate because negotiation looks like weakness. It mistakes silence for sovereignty and absence for strength. It would rather Lebanon continue absorbing destruction than sit…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (572+ words) Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam traveled to Damascus over the weekend alongside a high-level ministerial delegation, aiming to strengthen ties with Syria's relatively new government and address outstanding issues. Following talks with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Saturday, Salam said…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (570+ words) Lebanon has dispatched" veteran diplomat Simon Karam to lead its political representation in a new round of negotiations with Israel expected to take place in Washington next week, in what officials describe as part of a broader U. S. effort to shift…...