Neil Quilliam

2 months ago | english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Hanna Saleh |Emile Ameen |Neil Quilliam

A few days ago, on the 20th anniversary of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri’s assassination, many of those who remember what happened reiterated that they had remained confident he would not be killed until it happened.

2 months ago | english.aawsat.com | Hanna Saleh |Hazem Saghieh |Emile Ameen |Neil Quilliam

From the moment a law granting the warlords of the Lebanese civil war amnesty was passed, establishing “immunities” for official and legitimizing “impunity” (all compounded by an external veto on the dissolution of Hezbollah’s militia) the coup against the Taif Agreement and the constitution began taking shape. No functional state was established and, since then, the government’s role has been reduced to crisis management and the distributing spoils of a sectarian, predatory power-sharing system.

2 months ago | english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Emile Ameen |Neil Quilliam |Nadim Koteich

If we were to avoid skepticism of the so-called Resistance Axis’ intentions- despite the many valid reasons to be skeptical and assume that their actions genuinely reflect a perspective- we could claim that they are pushing the Lebanese to finalize their defeat in the name of the victory they claim to have attained.

2 months ago | english.aawsat.com | Emile Ameen |Neil Quilliam |Nadim Koteich |Eyad Abu Shakra

It has been decades from the end of the Second World War in which the United States played a key role in defeating the Axis powers, and then reinforced transatlantic relations through the establishment and rise of NATO in 1949. The alliance managed to maintain a united front and remained steadfast in the face of the Warsaw Pact throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

2 months ago | english.aawsat.com | Neil Quilliam |Nadim Koteich |Eyad Abu Shakra |Sam Menassa

On 13 February, French President Emmanuel Macron hosted in Paris the third international meeting on Syria – the latest attempt to marshal a coordinated international response since the downfall of the Assad regime. The Summit drew together high-level representatives from 20 regional and Western states, including Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan, Germany, and the UK, as well as representatives from the UN.