OPINION
Questions for the Government of Lebanon
This article was originally published by Nidaal Watan on 11 February 2025. The original can be found here. By Hicham Bou Nassif | Weinberg Associate Professor of International Relations and the Middle East and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College-California By what standard should Hezbollah and Nabih Berri not have been…
Read More »The Freedom of Peoples in Syria Depends on Equality of Status Under the Law
By Suphi Aksoy With the collapse of the Ba’athist dictatorship in Syria, the ensuing confusion in establishing a new political system has paved the way for chaos. Al-Qaeda, a variant of Islamic movements in the Middle East, facilitated the rise of Islamic State (ISIS)-affiliated organizations in Daramsuq (Damascus) by rallying…
Read More »What should the new Syria look like?
By Suphi Aksoy The Syrian Arab Republic collapsed on December 8, 2024, as a result of internal opposition forces and the intervention of international powers. There is no longer a centralized state system within the Syrian geography. After World War I, French efforts to establish a Syrian state continued until…
Read More »Parallel Worlds of Political Thoughts
By Iyad Boustany @heraldgardner The Lebanese political scene can be simply described as the adjunction of two universes of political thinking, more like siloes of political thought. On the one hand, the Federalists and on the other all the rest. Those who defend a project, an idea, an ideal and those…
Read More »Time for Federal Lebanon
The views expressed in this op-ed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of SyriacPress. By Eli Stephan Mendelek Former President of Tur Levnon Navigating the complexity of diversity is at the core of our Lebanese identity; a challenge only few could win, and at…
Read More »Charles Malek — Part 3
This article was originally published by This Is Beirut on 24 November 2024. The original can be found here. Related articles: Charles Malek — Part 1 | Part 2 By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon The Syriac language serves to connect the Maronites to…
Read More »Charles Malek — Part 2
This article was originally published by This Is Beirut on 10 November 2024. The original can be found here. Related articles: Charles Malek — Part 1 | Part 3 By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon After discussing the first three gifts –Mount Lebanon, Lebanon…
Read More »The Quest to Turn Hezbollah into a Political Group
This article was originally published by This Is Beirut on 8 December 2024. The original can be found here. By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon The raison d’être of a political party is to serve humanity. However, Hezbollah, meaning “Party of God,” exists solely…
Read More »Charles Malek — Part 1
This article was originally published by This Is Beirut on 10 November 2024. The original can be found here. Related articles: Charles Malek — Part 2 | Part 3 By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon Born in 1906 in northern Lebanon, in Bterram (meaning…
Read More »The Judiciary in the Hands of a Supremacist Militia
This article was originally published by This Is Beirut on 9 June 2024. The original can be found here. By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon As Lebanese society has grown indifferent to accusations of “collaboration with the Zionist enemy,” Hezbollah has shifted its focus…
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