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Chinese Geo-strategic Expansion in the Levant: A Case Study of Lebanon
As soon as the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, China and the Middle East faced a series of challenges. In recent...
A Wary Chinese Dragon and a Reluctant Lebanese Government
Since China's historic "Belt and Road" initiative was announced in 2013, several countries in the region, including Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, have raised the...
Hezbollah’s Lasting Grasp of Lebanon
Since the group’s inception as early as 1982 in South Lebanon, Hezbollah has maintained an unrelenting grasp of Lebanon, and its people are paying...
Lebanon’s Crisis: Great Denial in the Deliberate Depression
The scale and scope of Lebanon’s deliberate depression are leading to the disintegration of key pillars of Lebanon’s post-civil war political economy. This is...
A new world: The Middle East tries cooperation alongside competition
Just in case there were any doubts, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu demonstrated with his visit to Lebanon this week that improved relations between...
UN Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (1997)
On May 21, 1997, the United Nations General Assembly issued Resolution 51/229, approving the International Convention on the Use of Watercourses for Non-Navigational Purposes....
Lebanon crisis: More international assistance needed urgently
Lebanon’s enduring economic crisis risks reversing decades of gains in people’s wellbeing, the head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
Speaking from the capital, Beirut, at the end...
Lebanon: Almost three-quarters of the population living in poverty
Poverty in Lebanon has drastically increased over the past year and now affects about 74% of the population, warned the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western...
Escalating Lebanon-Israel aggressions provoking ‘very dangerous situation’
The UN Interim Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, said on Friday that escalating hostilities over the past two days involving Lebanese and Israeli forces have created “a very dangerous situation” in the volatile border region.
In a statement, the...
Lebanon: 365 Days Later, Every Day Counts
Authors: Ralph Tarraf, Najat Rochd and Saroj Kumar Jha*
We commemorate today the tragedy that took place on August 4, 2020, in Beirut. A man-made...