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Blog

12th May 2025
The role of trauma and mental health problems in driving continued violence, or in blocking reconciliation efforts, is under-researched.

Blog

2nd April 2025
Since 2019, the number of people attempting to flee Lebanon via irregular boat crossings has drastically increased. The new government in Lebanon, led...

Blog

26th March 2025
Syria’s new government has moved quickly to curtail Hezbollah’s movements of weapons, money, contraband, and people through Syria.

Blog

20th March 2025
In an interview, Mohanad Hage Ali talks about the Captagon trade’s impact on state institutions.

Briefing paper

19th March 2025
Lebanon’s financial collapse and the Syrian conflict have allowed for the growth of an illicit economy, giving rise to a new breed of drug traffickers...

Article

31st January 2025
When public protests erupted onto Lebanese streets in October 2019, they were neither unexpected nor without recent precedent. This book chapter exami...

Article

19th December 2024
This XCEPT article examining the recent conflict through the lens of interactions between displaced families from Hezbollah-linked regions and their h...

Article

21st November 2024
Transnational conflict in the Middle East is fuelled by both ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ trade. Mapping these cross-border dynamics can help understand and ...

Blog

17th October 2024
The killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is the latest in a history of political-sectarian assassinations in Lebanon, and will likely intensif...

Event

1st October 2024
On 1-2 October 2024, XCEPT hosted a conference on the Middle East and North Africa region, bringing together local, regional, and international expert...

Publication

30th September 2024
This XCEPT policy brief examines how the kidnapping in Arsal, Lebanon affects victims’ families and shapes their attitudes towards the state, justice,...

Blog

22nd March 2024
A forthcoming Carnegie paper will argue that to understand Syria’s future, we will have to focus on the country’s peripheries.

Article

21st March 2024
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...

Blog

17th October 2023
Visiting Lebanon today, it is difficult to escape the feeling that a collective sense of hopelessness has settled across the country, haunting and tor...

Briefing paper

31st August 2023
This policy paper assesses the impact of imprisonment and Lebanon’s criminal justice system on radicalisation and violent extremism.

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