Hanna Saleh

With each passing day, the depth of Lebanon’s predicament becomes clearer. Israel is nibbling away at territory after uprooting and displacing its entire population, while Iran, through the Quds Force, is meddling in the country and remains intent on eroding Lebanese sovereignty and decision-making…

Yasser Arafat once said that he would accept the liberation of even a single inch of Palestinian land. In response, Hassan Nasrallah “asked:” Isn’t there a Khalid al-Islambuli among the Palestinian? Islambuli, of course, was the terrorist who assassinated President Anwar Sadat and whom the mullah…

“We will not allow the country to be dragged into new adventures. We will take every necessary measure to apprehend the perpetrators and protect the Lebanese,” Prime Minister Nawaf Salam stressed at dawn on Monday in response to Hezbollah dragging Lebanon into a new “support war.” This time,…

As MP Hussein al-Hajj Hassan declared that “we have nothing to offer or to discuss north of the Litani River,” thereby reiterating Hezbollah’s insistence on its arms and “resistance,” in open defiance of the government’s decision to limit weapons throughout Lebanon to state forces, the Israeli…

The collapse of a dilapidated building in Tripoli on the 24th of January was a deeply revealing, harrowing tragedy. It crumbled over its residents, who chose to remain in their homes because the alternative was life on the streets after those supposed to protect them neglected their most basic duty…

Former minister and international financial expert Adel Afiouni says that “changing the system and reform from within, working with elements of the ruling class and to make gradual progress in the hope of saving the country, is a theory that has failed a thousand times.” This assessment by a…

The 2019 financial and economic collapse presented an exceptional opportunity to chart a new path that could pull Lebanon out of rock bottom. However, the power-hungry political establishment, which had been postponing the collapse since 2017, made protecting bankrupt banks its top priority,…

On the second anniversary of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” attack on October 7, 2023, Hamas agreed to a ceasefire, stunning Netanyahu and disappointing Iran’s proxies in Yemen and Iraq. What remains of Hezbollah, which had already signed its own ceasefire with Israel on November 27, 2024, now has no choice…

For decades, fear-mongering and conspiracy theories (that went so far they almost sparked a civil war) have been among key tools and tactics of Lebanon’s sectarian faction, especially in the face of attempts to curtail their influence. Nonetheless, the denial we see from Hezbollah, a party that…

Nothing undermines Lebanon’s safety more than its authorities’ indecision and their lack of progress on two fronts: monopolizing arms in the hands of the state and enacting reforms. Not only will paralysis deprive Lebanon of a rare opportunity to recover if it continues, it could, following…