Middle East and North Africa

Article

31st January 2025

Lebanon’s October Revolution (al-thawra 17 tishrīn) and the ...

When public protests erupted onto Lebanese streets in October 2019, they were neither unexpected nor without recent precedent. This book chapter exami...

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Article

19th December 2024

Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon: Reopening Lebanon’s sectari...

Mohamad El Kari

This XCEPT article examining the recent conflict through the lens of interactions between displaced families from Hezbollah-linked regions and their h...

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Article

21st November 2024

How supply chains fuel transnational conflict in the Middle ...

Renad Mansour, Hayder Al-Shakeri,

Transnational conflict in the Middle East is fuelled by both ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ trade. Mapping these cross-border dynamics can help understand and ...

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Blog

17th October 2024

Lebanon: assassinating sectarian leaders has always led to i...

Mohamad El Kari

The killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is the latest in a history of political-sectarian assassinations in Lebanon, and will likely intensif...

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Publication

30th September 2024

The impact of terrorist kidnappings: lessons from Arsal, Leb...

Craig Larkin, Rajan Basra

This XCEPT policy brief examines how the kidnapping in Arsal, Lebanon affects victims’ families and shapes their attitudes towards the state, justice,...

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Blog

22nd March 2024

Borders have undermined Syrian sovereignty

Kheder Khaddour

A forthcoming Carnegie paper will argue that to understand Syria’s future, we will have to focus on the country’s peripheries.

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Article

21st March 2024

Why Iranian entrenchment in southern Syria worries neighbour...

Kheder Khaddour, Armenak Tokmajyan

The Syrian regime has struggled to govern Syria’s south, while the Ukraine war has weakened Russia’s influence, making both more reliant on Tehran and...

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Blog

17th October 2023

Four years on from Lebanon’s 17 October revolution

Mohamad El Kari

Visiting Lebanon today, it is difficult to escape the feeling that a collective sense of hopelessness has settled across the country, haunting and tor...

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Briefing paper

31st August 2023

Imprisoned for terrorism: The experiences of inmates in Roum...

Rajan Basra, Craig Larkin

This policy paper assesses the impact of imprisonment and Lebanon’s criminal justice system on radicalisation and violent extremism.

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Blog

10th May 2023

Martyrdom in Lebanon: An Evolution of Memory-Making

Bronte Philips

This article explores how martyrdom memorialisation is used by all parties in Lebanon to shape narratives of the past and mobilise support in the pres...

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Podcast

31st March 2023