by Ibrahim Jouhari | Nov 4, 2020 | Commentary
What an exhausting couple of months, or even years, it has been. I still vividly remember four years ago, that fateful night in 2016, the up and downs, the false hopes, and then the unequivocal truth… Among the deluge of polls, opinions, and fake news, the situation...
by Ibrahim Jouhari | Aug 17, 2020 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
After seven long months, during which the Lebanese went through a popular uprising, a COVID 19 pandemic, a worsening economic and financial crisis, currency devaluation, and a large explosion that destroyed parts of Beirut, the government of Hassan Diab has resigned....
by Ibrahim Jouhari | Aug 12, 2020 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Lebanese ministers and MPs have been resigning in drove following the tragic explosion in the port of Beirut, and the subsequent popular anger against the whole political class. On Saturday a huge demonstration took place, and the following day popular movement...
by Ibrahim Jouhari | Jul 29, 2020 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
The current multifaceted crisis engulfing Lebanon has started a very dangerous political and economic shift that could have a disastrous effect on Lebanon’s Liberal economic model in the long run. Indeed, the liberal model, focusing on personal freedoms,...
by Ibrahim Jouhari | Mar 6, 2020 | Commentary, Terrorism, Conflict and War, War and Conflict
Several weeks ago, the Syrian regime decided to take one of the last holdouts of the rebels, in Idlib. The area is right at the border with Turkey, and after the Sochi agreement, Turkey has a military presence there in the form of several observation posts, ensuring...
