Zachary Cuyler

Feb 20, 2024 | tcf.org | Zeinab F. Shuker |Zachary Cuyler |Ashraf Hassan |Dahlia Scheindlin

The widening fallout from October 7 is upending the Middle East in horrible ways, some new and some familiar. The Houthis have discovered their power to disrupt international shipping. Militia factions allied with Iran have crossed old red lines in their daily attacks on U.S. bases. The United States has shown itself unable to restrain the conduct of its principal regional ally, Israel, and is now facing an era of diminished influence and overextended entanglements.

Dec 1, 2023 | tcf.org | Sajad Jiyad |Thanassis Cambanis |Zeinab F. Shuker |Zachary Cuyler

In his new book, God’s Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Century International fellow Sajad Jiyad draws on original sources and hundreds of interviews during decades of fieldwork inside Iraq to show how Sistani, as the revered senior Shia cleric in a Shia-majority country, commands the loyalty of millions of faithful.

Nov 7, 2023 | tcf.org | Sam Heller |Zachary Cuyler |Thanassis Cambanis |Renad Mansour

Lebanon’s economic crisis hasn’t just impoverished the country’s people—it has also brought the Lebanese state to the brink of collapse. Now, international donors have stepped in to sponsor the country’s public institutions and services, and to underwrite some of the Lebanese state’s most basic functions. Foreign aid to Lebanon is nothing new. Since the end of its civil war in 1990, the country has received billions in development assistance. This aid is different, however.

Oct 16, 2023 | tcf.org | Mac Skelton |Zachary Cuyler |Amr ElAfifi |AbdelRahman Ayyash

Palestinian militant organization Hamas’s massacres on October 7 have provoked shock and horror around the world. But revulsion at the group’s atrocities should not lead America into a historic disaster. The Biden administration’s almost unfettered support for Israeli retaliation in Gaza will not just implicate the United States in grave violations against Gaza’s civilians. It is also likely to embroil the United States in a broader regional war that will cost more American lives.