The Futility of a Lebanon War
Israel has no military options that could achieve a better result than a negotiated solution or a return to the status quo.
· June 27, 2024
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Michael Young
Editor, Diwan, Senior Editor, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
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Michael Young is a senior editor at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut and editor of Diwan, Carnegie’s Middle East blog.
Previously, he was opinion editor, as well as a columnist, for the Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon. He writes a biweekly commentary for the National (Abu Dhabi) and is author of The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle. The book was selected by the Wall Street Journal as one of its ten notable books of 2010, and won the Silver Prize in the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s book prize competition of 2010.
He is a graduate of the American University of Beirut and of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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The Laws of Hegemony
In an interview, H. A. Hellyer talks about international justice as the ICC prosecutor seeks to pursue Israeli officials.
· May 22, 2024
Rockin’ in An Unequal World
Antony Blinken took his guitar to Kyiv to lift the spirits of Ukrainians, but Arabs are apparently denied his tunes.
· May 17, 2024
Gaza and the Revolt in U.S. Colleges
As students around the United States and Europe protest, the relationship of Western elites with Israel is being redefined.
· April 30, 2024
Humanizing, Not Sanitizing, Saddam
In an interview, author Steve Coll discusses his latest book on the quarter-century minuet between the United States and the late Iraqi leader.
· April 16, 2024
Iran Has Retaliated Against Israel for Its Killing of Several Quds Force Generals
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.
· April 14, 2024
America’s Detrimental Policy Bubble
President Joe Biden initially reacted to the October 7 attacks through a domestic American prism, and now he’s paying the price.
· March 28, 2024
A Great Discoverer in the Levant
In an interview, Julie d’Andurain talks about her biography of General Henri Gouraud and his experiences in Syria and Lebanon.
· March 27, 2024
An Iraqi Path to Prosperity?
In an interview, Harith Hasan discusses Baghdad’s Development Road project, and sees obstacles ahead.
· March 12, 2024
Partners in Crime?
America can stop the carnage and famine in Gaza, but has not done so. Surely, this makes it complicit in the mass killings there.
· March 5, 2024
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