Nadim Koteich

US President Donald Trump’s designation as Foreign Terrorist Organizations of certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon closes a chapter that western capitals had avoided for years. The designation is nothing more than a delayed recognition of what our region already…

The chronic persistence of the debate over disarming the resistance factions in Gaza and Lebanon is as nauseating as it is astonishing. Given the endless controversy, one would think that there was still hope that these factions could succeed after decades of failure. The harrowing scale of…

An Israeli operation against Hezbollah that finishes what it had begun in the 2024 war is only a matter of time. The ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah on 27 November 2024 was not a truce that ended a round of escalation between the two sides. It was a turning point that effectively paralyzed…

The recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit held in the Chinese city of Tianjin placed the Arab region, particularly the Gulf, at the heart of the processes reshaping the balance of power in Eurasia. Presided over by Chinese President Xi Jinping and attended by Russian President…

Raising the Arab appetite for greater political and economic support for Lebanon is no easy task. Indeed, their list of disappointments is long: Lebanon’s chronically tenuous assertion of its sovereignty, the clientelist politics of many Lebanese elites, and its history of exploiting Arab aid to…

The fate of Hezbollah’s arms is no longer a domestic dispute between advocates of sovereignty and supporters of the “resistance.” Since the 2023–2024 war with Israel, this question has been distilling into an existential crisis facing the party. The slogan raised by the leader of Hezbollah’s…

A political climate that is founded on a simple idea is spreading in our region: stability begins from within, and that development is the foundation of legitimacy. This political wave does not raise grand ideological slogans or promise radical shifts in the balance of power through constant…

The region has been paying a horrifying price for its conflict with Israel for the past half century. We were told that Israel was a fragile polity propped up more by foreign support with limited domestic cohesion and legitimacy. This portrayal gave rise to a broad range of nationalist, Islamist,…

It must have been difficult for Hezbollah to watch the public ceremony in which the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters burned their rifles with their own hands. The scenes symbolized the termination of a long armed struggle in the region, quietly introducing a new era that compels…

There is an immense moral and political gap between Israel’s blatant unhinged incitement on the life of the symbolic figurehead of the Islamic Republic of Iran (which the Americans eventually sympathized with after their initial opposition) and calm reflection on Iran’s fate after Supreme Leader…