Nadim Koteich

Three documents offer the only window that grants us a glimpse into what the Middle East policy of President-elect Donald Trump's administration could look like. "The Trump Peace Plan" (also known as the "Deal of the Century") for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the "Abraham Accords"…

Hezbollah deceitfully sensationalizes the ambitions of its opponents, claiming that they are striving for an "Israeli Lebanon." This term is often invoked to frighten the people of Lebanon and force them into a lethal binary choice between Israel and the resistance state. Sheikh Naim Qassem, the…

The assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, preceded and followed by Israeli airstrikes and targeted killings, marks a rare turning point for Lebanon and the entire Middle East. For nearly three decades, Nasrallah embodied Hezbollah’s rise and its transformation into a massive military,…

The claim that Iran has sold out Hezbollah stems purely from political spite and the grudges it provokes. Strategic and geopolitical calculations shape Iran’s relationship with the most prominent formation that grew out of Khomeini's revolutionary ideology, Hezbollah, and its leaders. Regardless of…

To justify the severe blows it has received, Hezbollah and its supporters console themselves with the notion that "we have been sacrificing martyrs for 40 years." The party’s shrewd bi-pronged propaganda game is centered around this theme. Managing the contradictions of its narrative, it glorifies…

The political storm around Donald Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery should be understood in the context of the crude political spite we see during presidential election season. Democrats, along with liberal media outlets, have been up in arms over a photo op that Trump took alongside his…

If we set aside the vastly disparate geographic, political, and economic scales of the two countries, we can ask the following question: How can we explain China’s relative success at breaking the shackles of ideology, allowing it to reinvent itself and turn into an economic and political power…

Regardless of who wins the US presidential election after President Joe Biden's exit from the race, an entirely new era will begin once it ends. Despite their divergent backgrounds, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, for different reasons, are atypical candidates. Harris is far more…

The implications of the recent drone strike on Tel Aviv that the Houthi militia in Yemen claimed responsibility for go far beyond the immediate material damage it caused. Justifying this first-of-its-kind attack on Tel Aviv as the result of a human error in assessing the threat level of the Houthi…

The condolences that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates extended to Iran following the death of its president, Ebrahim Raisi have not gone unnoticed. The attendance of both countries’ foreign ministers at the funeral, following the helicopter crash that killed Raisi, reflects…