Lebanon

American paratrooper cleans his gun at Army base camp in Beirut, Lebanon. Credit: Library of Congress

Order from Chaos

Highlights: Experts discuss the first-ever US military intervention in the Middle East

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Demonstrators carry national flags as riot police stand guard behind barbed wire during an anti-government protest in Beirut, Lebanon October 19, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC114D4AE1A0

Testimony

What’s next for Lebanon? Examining the implications of current protests

Jeffrey Feltman

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Beirut 1958: How America’s wars in the Middle East began

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST

Demonstrators wave Lebanese flags as the pass by Lebanese soldiers during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon, October 31, 2019. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic - RC116FDD2CA0

Order from Chaos

With Lebanon making fragile progress, now is the wrong time to pull US assistance

Jeffrey Feltman

Friday, November 1, 2019

Reports

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Report

Not likely to go home: Syrian refugees and the challenges to Turkey—and the international community

Elizabeth Ferris and Kemal Kirişci

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

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Report

Israel and the Changing Middle East

Itamar Rabinovich

Thursday, January 29, 2015

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Report

Hezbollah in a Time of Transition

Daniel L. Byman and Bilal Y. Saab

Monday, November 17, 2014

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Report

Preventing a New Displacement for Palestinian Double Refugees

Ibrahim Fraihat

Sunday, June 1, 2014

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Report

Syrian Crisis: Massive Displacement, Dire Needs and a Shortage of Solutions

Elizabeth Ferris, Kemal Kirişci, and Salman Shaikh

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Blog Posts

American soldier reads a newspaper in the shade under a U.S. Marine tank in Beirut, Lebanon. / Library of Congress

Order from Chaos

Beirut 1958: America’s origin story in the Middle East

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Demonstrators carry national flags during an anti-government protest in Tripoli, Lebanon October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim - RC1D594342A0

Order from Chaos

No going back: How America and the Middle East can turn the page to a productive future

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Hezbollah fighters put Lebanese and Hezbollah flags at Juroud Arsal, Syria-Lebanon border, July 25, 2017. Picture taken July 25, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC11019C4D00

Order from Chaos

Another war in Lebanon?

Daniel L. Byman

Friday, September 7, 2018

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Events

Cancelled: Walid Jumblatt: A conversation on Lebanon

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

The impact of militias on governance and geopolitics in the Middle East and North Africa

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Lebanon’s Deepening Domestic Crisis

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM +04

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Experts

Jeffrey Feltman

John C. Whitehead Visiting Fellow in International Diplomacy - Foreign Policy

Bruce Riedel

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Center for Middle East Policy

Director - The Intelligence Project

Hady Amr

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

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Multimedia

U.S. Marine sits in a foxhole and points a machine gun towards Beirut, Lebanon, in the distance

Podcast Episode

Beirut 1958: America’s first Middle East intervention

Bruce Riedel and Bill Finan

Friday, November 1, 2019

Demonstrators wave Lebanese national flags as they stand atop a statue on Martyrs' square during an anti-government protest in downtown Beirut, Lebanon October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis - RC1AE78FCA00

Lebanon

What’s spurring the mass protests in Lebanon?

Hady Amr and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Lebanon's flag flies in front of damaged windows at the Starco building in front of the site of a bomb blast, which killed Lebanon's former Finance Minister Mohamad Chatah, in downtown Beirut December 28, 2013. Chatah, who opposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was killed in a massive bomb blast on Friday which one of his political allies blamed on the Shi'ite Hezbollah militia. Former prime minister Saad al-Hariri accused Hezbollah of involvement in the killing of Chatah, his 62-year-old political adviser, saying it was "a new message of terrorism". REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (LEBANON - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) - RTX16VMI

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Islamists on Islamism: An interview with Rabih Dandachli, former leader in Lebanon’s Gamaa al-Islamiyya

Shadi Hamid and William McCants

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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