Commentary
There is a disturbing structural parallel between the old global energy economy and the new green transition.
Angie Omar
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Commentary
A Toxic Pathology
Thanassis Cambanis discusses Lebanese sectarianism and the reform movement of 2015.
By Ghida Tayara
Published on Aug 1, 2017
Thanassis Cambanis is an author and journalist living in Beirut. He is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, specializing on the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. Recently, he co-edited the Century Foundation’s Arab Politics Beyond the Uprisings: Experiments in an Era of Resurgent Authoritarianism with Michael Wahid Hanna.
Cambanis also writes “The Internationalist” column for the Boston Globe, and regularly contributes to The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and the New York Times. He is the author of A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah’s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel (2010), as well as Once Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story (2016). Cambanis spoke with Diwan in mid-July, when he came to Carnegie to chair a roundtable discussion around the Century Foundation’s new book. His comments focused on Lebanon’s anti-sectarian reform movement of 2015.
About the Author
Ghida Tayara
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Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
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