... Foundation seminar on Actors, Policies, and Obstacles to Economic Recovery in Syria consisted of six sessions and gathered about thirty experts and officials from European, Middle Eastern, and American research centers, NGOs, EU and the UN agencies in Lebanon. The key topics included the general framework of the economic course of recovery in Syria, the government’s ability to carry out the recovery, the key Syrian actors in the process, the European outlook, and the Turkish course on economic recovery ...
... further. A
South
has a strong US-supported axis of Israel and Saudi Arabia at its core, with Egypt being largely dependent upon these two. Saudi Arabia also projects power towards Kuwait and the other states of the Arab Peninsula. Contested grounds are Lebanon, Qatar, Yemen, Gaza, and the West Bank, as well as pockets of Sunni insurgents in Syria and Iraq.
Some areas will change in less obvious ways, more gradually.
Turkey
is rather successfully defining a self-conscious new and very independent geopolitical ...
On February 12, 2018, Beirut hosted a seminar on the options for the future constitutional development and elections in Syria.
The research projects were launched by the National Agenda for the Future of Syria (NAFS), United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (UN ESCWA). The projects are aiming at post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction in Syria.
On February 12, 2018, Beirut hosted a seminar on the options for the future constitutional development and elections in...
Now it is Lebanon’s Turn to Become the Stage for Saudi Arabia to Resolve its Regional Issues
On November 4, 2017, Prime Minister of Lebanon Saad Hariri announced his resignation on Saudi television. In his speech, Hariri
accused Iran
of spreading discord in ...
..., the SAA was not in a position to reverse the course of the war, “Shiite jihadists” started to emerge in the country during this period. They have since become an integral part of the regime’s armed forces. The most famous of these groups are Lebanon’s Hezbollah and numerous Iraqi groups, such as Liwa al-Zulfiqar and Liwa Asadullah al-Ghalib, which emerged as the followers of the Shiite jihad “pioneers” in Syria from the Iraqi forces –
Liwa Abu Fadl al-Abbas
and a conglomerate of ...
... – that is, the crisis of the legislative and executive branches, social security issues, economic hardship, unemployment, refugees, etc. Yet serious shifts are under way beneath the surface that seem to promise an early change of the landscape.
Lebanon’s Bipolar Sructure is Melting Down
It is time to admit that the habitual division of Lebanon’s leading political forces into two camps that appear to be on opposite sides of the barricades is not helpful when trying to sort out the ...
..., Total and other industry leaders produce hydrocarbons in Egypt. In July 2015, the Egyptian government announced that exploration and
follow-up exploration of hydrocarbons
were now its priorities.
Only 2D and 3D exploration has been carried out in Lebanon, although no drilling has been done. It should be noted that in 2013, when the Lebanese side planned to hold a licensing tender, such giants as Total, ExonnMobil, Eni, Shell, Statoil, Chevron and Rosneft passed pre-qualification, despite the existing ...
One of the conflicts in the Middle East that remains unresolved is the standoff between Lebanon and Israel. The active involvement of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement in the hostilities in Syria has not only led to the party transforming its domestic and foreign policies, but it has also caused Israel to modify its strategy with regard ...
... politicians most versed in Lebanese realities.
What Happened?
You don't have to immerse yourself in the finer points of relationships between the Lebanese political elite to realize that unilateral nomination of a presidential candidate made outside of Lebanon, backed by political support from abroad, and without informing key political partners, can appear alarming. The leader of the "March 14" alliance and the informal leader of the Al-Mustaqbal party 'Saad Hariri offered the presidency ...
It will soon be a year that Lebanon has been without a president. The members of parliament, who under the constitution have to elect the president by a two-thirds majority in the first round, have been unable to do so because the supporters of the main candiates (above all Michel ...
