Regions/Lebanon

Lebanon

For An Emergency Economic Rescue Plan For Lebanon
- Sami Atallah, Joseph Bahout, Karim Emile Bitar, Amer Bsat, Jad Chaaban, Georges Corm, Karim Daher, Ishac Diwan, Jamal Haidar, Kamal Hamdan, Nadim Houry, Ziad Majed, Chibli Mallat, Sybille Rizk, Nizar Saghieh, Paul Salem, Nisreen Salti, Fadi Twainy, Maha Yahya
- November 10, 2019
A group of Lebanese economists, political scientists, and jurists met on November 1, 2019 to consider their priority recommendations on how to deal with the urgent financial and economic challenges that the country is facing at the moment.
- Diwan
Are We Seeing A New Wave of Arab Spring Uprisings in 2019?
- Michael Young
- November 07, 2019
- - عربي
A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
- Diwan
“We’ve Reached the Brink”
- Issam Kayssi
- November 05, 2019
- - عربي
Young protestors in Lebanon say they will continue until their demands are met.
- Diwan
Partners in Failure
- Mohanad Hage Ali
- November 04, 2019
By becoming an active part of Lebanon’s loathed political class, Hezbollah has faced the wrath of protestors too.
- TV/Radio Broadcast
Thousands Gather on Beirut's Streets for Anti-Government Protest
- Maha Yahya
- November 04, 2019
- Al Jazeera English
Tens of thousands of Lebanese protested on Sunday to keep up a nationwide street movement that has brought down the government, hours after a smaller rally of thousands was held to support the embattled president.
- TV/Radio Broadcast
Lebanon Protests on CNN Newsroom
- Maha Yahya
- November 02, 2019
- CNN
Lebanon's Prime Minister's resignation is unlikely to trigger the changes that the protestors are demanding.
- Commentary
After the Lebanon Protests: Between the Party of God and Party of the People
- Maha Yahya
- November 01, 2019
Lebanon’s protesters succeeded in one of their demands: the resignation of the country’s embattled Prime Minister. After the seismic protests, what is the best way forward?
- Diwan
My Generation Wants To End Sectarianism
- Ghida Tayara
- November 01, 2019
- - عربي
Lebanon’s youths are fed up with the traditional reflexes of sect that keep the population divided.
- Diwan
There Are Reports That the United States Will Withhold Military Aid to Lebanon
- Aram Nerguizian
- November 01, 2019
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.
- TV/Radio Broadcast
No More ‘-Isms’: A Non-Ideological Generation Takes to the Streets in the Middle East
- Maha Yahya
- October 31, 2019
- World Politics Review
Mass protests are unfolding across the Middle East and North Africa, as demonstrators take to the streets to decry a wide range of social and political ills.

Joseph Bahout
Nonresident Fellow
Middle East Program
Joseph Bahout is a nonresident fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program. His research focuses on political developments in Lebanon and Syria, regional spillover from the Syrian crisis, and identity politics across the region.
Frances Z. Brown
Fellow
Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Frances Z. Brown is a fellow with Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, who arrived at Carnegie after fifteen years as a USAID official, White House staffer, and non-governmental organization practitioner. She writes on conflict, governance, and U.S. foreign policy.
Michele Dunne
Director and Senior Fellow
Middle East Program
Dunne is an expert on political and economic change in Arab countries, particularly Egypt, as well as U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Kim Ghattas
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Kim Ghattas is a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she is focused on writing a book about the impact of the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia on the wider region since 1979.
Amr Hamzawy
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Middle East Program
Amr Hamzawy studied political science and developmental studies in Cairo, The Hague, and Berlin.
Ariel (Eli) Levite
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Nuclear Policy Program
Levite was the principal deputy director general for policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission from 2002 to 2007.
Marc Lynch
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Middle East Program
Marc Lynch is a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program where his work focuses on the politics of the Arab world.
Marwan Muasher
Vice President for Studies
Muasher is vice president for studies at Carnegie, where he oversees research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East.
Aram Nerguizian
Senior Advisor
Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States
Carnegie Middle East Center
Aram Nerguizian is senior advisor of the Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his work focuses on the Lebanese security sector, long-term force transformation in the Levant, and efforts to develop national security institutions in post-conflict and divided societies.
Yezid Sayigh
Senior Fellow
Middle East Center
Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where he leads the program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States (CMRAS). His work focuses on the comparative political and economic roles of Arab armed forces and nonstate actors, the impact of war on states and societies, and the politics of post-conflict reconstruction and security sector transformation in Arab transitions, and authoritarian resurgence.
Jake Walles
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Middle East Program
Jake Walles is a nonresident senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Israeli-Palestinian issues, Tunisia, and counterterrorism.
Maha Yahya
Director
Middle East Center
Yahya is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, where her research focuses on citizenship, pluralism, and social justice in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings.