September 28, 2017
Iraqi political leaders in Baghdad and Erbil, the Kurdistan regional capital, have escalated their rhetoric this week, as Kurdish officials reported 92 percent approval of the Sept. 25 nonbinding vote on independence for the region. The verbal volleys and intensifying actions risk triggering another outbreak of violent conflict.
June 30, 2017
USIP’s Elie Abouaoun, Robin Wright, Mona Yacoubian in Facebook Live Discussion.
May 17, 2017
the Saudi role in the region’s military conflicts and the extremist threat on its own turf.
April 7, 2017
The United States launched its first air strikes against forces backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since the country’s civil war began six years ago,
March 26, 2017
Curbing US involvement abroad was a signal campaign promise of the new US administration. Anything that smacked of nation-building drew the sharpest criticism.
February 24, 2017
Iraq’s grinding war to dislodge the Islamic State from its last Iraqi strongholds has obscured a simmering — and in some respects equally important — political battle in Baghdad.
November 2, 2016
The Lebanese Parliament’s selection this week of General Michel Aoun as president ends 2 ½ years of a leadership vacuum that mired decision-making on fundamental economic, social and political crises facing Lebanon.
October 26, 2016
وليد جنبلاط: يبحث عن أرشبفه الخاص لأعوام 1982-1988 ليلقن تيمور بعض المفاهيم التاريخية الخاصة بنعت رئيس جمهورية لبنان بعبارات التشبيه بعيدي أمين دادا أو بوكاسا.
May 3, 2016
تكثر التعليقات حول مبادرة "بيروت مدينتي". و في حمى الانتخابات تكاد لا تجد الا من يؤيد المبادرة حتى الموت أو من ينعتها بأبشع الصفات.
February 8, 2016
The region today faces riddles that go even beyond the fate of Assad, ISIS and other terrorist groups. It's time for a new approach, Dr. Elie Abouaoun writes.
January 23, 2016
A friend asked me why I did not comment on the recent “reconciliation” between Aoun and Geagea. My answer was that there is no “reconciliation”
January 16, 2016
In December 2015, the Economist published an article about the Ottoman Empire and how the remaining offspring of the then Caliph looks at the behavior of the “Caliphate”.
January 8, 2016
2015 was the year of the further disastrous turn in the Syrian civil war, and the year of the rise of the terror state ISIS. As 2016 begins, what are the prospects, amidst the air strikes, terror and counter-terror attempts, and city-by-city militia battles, for peacemaking in the terror-afflicted states of the Middle East and North Africa?