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Turkish parliamentary commission proposes temporary law for PKK disarmament process

Yusuf Kanli

Fiscal Discipline for Some, Flexibility for Others: Lebanon’s IMF Dilemma

Samara Azzi

Cyprus at a crossroads: Extended UN engagemeng and regional calm hint at a reset

Yusuf Kanli

Lebanon has a new Sunni terror front. Period.

The Times of Israel

A Second Devaluation Looms Over Lebanon’s Fragile Currency Regime

Samara Azzi

U.S. Policy Toward Lebanon: Obstacles to Dismantling Hezbollah’s Grip on Power

David Schenker

U.S. Policy Toward Lebanon: Obstacles to Dismantling Hezbollah’s Grip on Power

Hanin Ghaddar

Lebanon’s Gold: Between Political Posturing and Economic Reality

Samara Azzi

HEADLINES

Cash Economy

Lebanon Must Prioritise Depositors Before Politics Delays Reform Again

Lebanon’s financial crisis has entered its sixth year with no comprehensive resolution in sight — a timeline that, in Lebanese…

Lebanon’s Financial Gap Resolution Plan: Legalizing the Heist

It’s a Liquidity Problem, Not an Accounting Problem, Stupid

Banking Without Bankers: Why Lebanon Must End the Sub-Agent Experiment

Who Is Using the Hawala System in Lebanon — and Why It’s Growing

We move forward, with those who still believe in a better Lebanon

COMMENTARY

Federalism Is the Only Shield Lebanon and Iraq Have Left in a Nuclearizing Middle East

A necessary conversation: On Cyprus, security, and the missing half of the story

The Silence of the Lambs-Lebanon’s Leaders Look Away as One Man Stands Against the Storm

Lebanon’s banks are running out of excuses

Magazine

Three years later: the rubble still speaks

February 6 is no longer merely a date in Türkiye’s recent history. It is a permanent fracture in the national conscience.…

Cyprus at a dual inflection point: Symbolism, fragmentation, and the politics of recalibration

Turkey in the Middle Eastern ‘swamp’

Yemen’s Arab Spring Left Its Air Force In Disarray

The KGB’s Middle East Files: Palestinians in the service of Mother Russia