Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
When Naim Attallah died recently, few remembered the role he played in one of the Middle East’s worst financial scandals.
The 2019-2020 crises not only swept away the idea that Lebanon is a paragon of economic success, but also made blatant another kind of exceptionalism in the country—its record-high income and wealth inequality, which is perpetuated by the corrupt political economy.
In an interview, Makram Rabah discusses his new book on the Druze-Maronite conflict in Lebanon’s civil war.
In an interview, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff recalls the movie he shot in Lebanon at the height of its civil war.
The assassination of Luqman Slim underlines that the scope for dissent in Lebanon is rapidly narrowing.
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.
In an interview, Salim Adib discusses Lebanon’s management of Covid-19, and expresses some hope for the future.
In an interview, David Linfield argues that international donors are benefiting existing power structures in the Middle East.
To survive its ongoing financial crisis, Lebanon needs a new economic system that addresses massive income inequality. Paired with political and institutional reform, tax reform can help.
Twenty years on, a film by Lebanese director Jean Chamoun remains as relevant as ever.