Regions/Lebanon

Lebanon

- Diwan
Taking Secular Courses
- Issam Kayssi
- December 04, 2020
- - عربي
University students around Lebanon are voting for candidates who oppose the country’s sectarian establishment parties.
- Diwan
Power of the Purse
- Ghida Tayara
- December 01, 2020
- - عربي
Giving women greater leadership roles might be the antidote to Lebanon’s governing crisis.
- Diwan
What’s in a Flag?
- Olivia Shabb
- November 20, 2020
- - عربي
On Lebanon’s Independence Day, the question has meaning for a population whose leaders are masters of the meaningless.
- Diwan
An Indispensible Diaspora
- Michael Young
- November 18, 2020
- - عربي
In an interview, Sevak Khatchadorian discusses how Armenians in the Arab world reacted to the Nagorno-Karabakh war.
- Event
Lebanon: Out with the Old, In with the What?
- Ishac Diwan, Dorothée Schmid, Randa Slim, Maha Yahya
- November 17, 2020
- Live on YouTube @CarnegieMENA
While Lebanon's ruling elite continues to delay the formation of a new cabinet under Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, French President Emmanuel Macron is growing impatient as he watches his initiative and timeline for reforms crumble.
- Diwan
Coming Up for Air
- Michael Young
- November 16, 2020
- - عربي
A Biden administration may bring crisis-ridden Lebanon a reprieve, even if some things will remain the same.
- Article
Lebanon’s Food Insecurity and the Path Toward Agricultural Reform
- Kanj Hamadé
- November 13, 2020
- - عربي
Without deep legislative and structural reforms, Lebanon's agricultural sector could suffer severely, pushing even more people out of work and into poverty.
- Diwan
Gebran Bassil Has Been Sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department
- Michael Young
- November 06, 2020
- - عربي
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.
- Op-Ed
America’s Future Might Be Lebanon
- Kim Ghattas
- November 05, 2020
- Atlantic
Never has this felt truer than now, when Beirut, like much of the world, feels unmoored and broken, on hold but also changing rapidly, squeezed between the coronavirus, populism, and economic unraveling.
- Diwan
The Tragedy of Doing Nothing
- Amer Bisat
- October 21, 2020
- - عربي
Lebanon’s ad hoc approach to its myriad economic shocks will leave scars that are long-lasting.

Frances Z. Brown
Senior Fellow
Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Dr. Frances Z. Brown is a senior fellow with Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, who previously worked at the White House, USAID, and in non-governmental organizations. She writes on conflict, governance, and U.S. foreign policy.
Ryan Crocker
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Geoeconomics and Strategy Program
Ryan Crocker is a nonresident senior fellow in the Geoeconomics and Strategy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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.
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
Cyber Policy Initiative
Levite was the principal deputy director general for policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission from 2002 to 2007.
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
Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
Aram Nerguizian is senior advisor of the Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States at the Malcolm H. Kerr 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
Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr 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 postconflict 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
Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
Yahya is director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, where her research focuses on citizenship, pluralism, and social justice in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings.