Mustafa Fahs

The elites of the Iranian regime have succeeded in absorbing the first blow, averting a vacuum in decision-making. Their rapid absorption of the shock has enabled them to maintain control and brought hardliners who had long operated in the shadows, its most radical military and political figures,…

“Hezbollah” is struggling to impose a single narrative on the southern massacre, or a single interpretation of it, and views any dissenting opinion as “treason” or a “stabbing in the back of the sacrifices.” Its goal is to prevent its own community, which carried it for years, from saying what it…

Between the natural state and the parallel state that stands in its place, especially in functional terms, the Shiite duo (Hezbollah and Amal Movement) has succeeded in entrenching sectarianism through a distorted iteration of older failed Lebanese models. In truth, the duo’s conduct at the height…

In the calculus of domestic politics, Tehran claims victory, relying on the premise that the regime did not fall, despite the opacity surrounding its hierarchy and decision-making process. It is as though it has adopted the same logic as the armed groups it created in neighboring countries, through…

Between two Lebanese right-wing camps, each with its own narrative, its sacred values, its certainties, its salvation and its story about the other, stands Nawaf Salam. They do not merely disagree; they tear up geography and erase history, even as they share the same country, political system, and…

South Lebanon (the South of the river, the far South) is steeped in antiquity. For thousands of years, the peoples and tribes who successively settled forged its collective memory, and its written and oral history, leaving their mark on the land and in the collective consciousness itself. It is…

The bangs of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburb interrupted an evening discussion about the future of our country after the war. Even so, the barrage of updates about strikes in the south, and the mass evacuation orders that have nearly emptied out the region south of the Litani River,…

US President Donald Trump exposed the deep crisis of governance in Iraq with a tweet that threatened the future of the political system and paralyzed the towering figures of Iraqi politics. These partisan elites emerged, under exceptional conditions, as a result of the intersecting interests of…

The generational clash in Iraq is changing. It is no longer tied to the political class’s struggle for power and spoils. While this class is busy managing a transition, a new generation is forming: the post-“October Uprising” generation. The elite seeks to maintain power and wealth through the…

The Coordination Framework’s nomination of former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to head the government has exposed a major crisis of Shiite politics in Iraq. This crisis cannot be reduced to a struggle for political power, influence, or wealth. Rather, it reflects a deeper conflict that reflects…