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Michael Young

Michael Young

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Michael Young is a Lebanon affairs columnist for The National. He is the senior editor at the Malcolm H Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre in Beirut, where he also edits Diwan, the blog of the Carnegie Middle East Programme. A former journalist, he is the author of 'The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle' (Simon and Schuster, 2010), selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of its 10 notable books for 2010.
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A supporter of Hezbollah at a rally commemorating the group's leaders, in Beirut's suburbs, on February 16. Reuters
Hezbollah's unity strategy is posing problems for the party

Hezbollah has effectively hijacked the state’s prerogative to declare war, and it has taken Lebanon into a risky conflict with Israel

CommentFebruary 28, 2024
The head of the caretaker government in Lebanon Najib Mikati arrives in Riyadh on November 11, 2023. SPA
Could warming Riyadh-Beirut ties temper Tehran's hegemony over Lebanon?

The development, itself an outcome of Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, may revive the idea of a 'shared neighbourhood' between regional powers

CommentFebruary 14, 2024
Protesters gather outside the Lebanese parliament in Beirut, to support independent lawmakers staging a sit-in to push for the election of a new president. Reuters
Opportunity coming up to stabilise Lebanon by finally electing a president

A five-country group assisting Lebanon is about to meet in the coming weeks to discuss the Lebanese presidential election

CommentJanuary 31, 2024
Reuters
After Gaza, resentment against the US has sharpened in the Middle East

Biden has no realistic political endgame for the war and little regional backing for anything he proposes

CommentJanuary 17, 2024
An Israeli drill in the annexed Golan Heights. Israel and Hezbollah have been involved in low-intensity battles since October. AFP
'Unstable stability' reigns on the Israel-Lebanon border

Tensions continue to simmer yet an escalation has so far been avoided. This is deliberate

CommentJanuary 02, 2024
A man inspects the rubble of a house destroyed in reported Israeli bombardment on December 13 in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila on December 16. AFP
Israel is unlikely to expand the Gaza war to Lebanon

Threats may be more a part of Israel's negotiating strategy than an intent to widen the conflict

CommentDecember 20, 2023
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir at an American Jewish Congress Dinner, on November 4, 1977, in New York. AP
Kissinger was key to a plan that enabled Israel

By undermining Resolution 242, Kissinger and successive US administrations gave Israel great latitude to continue its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza

CommentDecember 06, 2023
US President Joe Biden during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv last month. Reuters
Biden wants Hamas eliminated without regional war

A US-Iran dialogue of deterrence has restricted the conflict to Gaza, but there is so much that can go wrong

CommentNovember 22, 2023
Iraqi demonstrators watch a speech from Lebanon's militant Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on a screen as they hold flags of, Palestinians and Hezbollah during a pro-Palestinian rally in Basra, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. (AP Photo / Nabil al-Jurani)
Nasrallah's speech shows Hezbollah's limited options

His commitment to the Axis of Resistance has hit up against his commitment to his own base at home

CommentNovember 07, 2023
Samir Geagea, leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces party. AFP
Israel is forcing Lebanese leaders to put on a show of unity

Conciliatory remarks from several prominent politicians may be surprising – but they are rooted in recent history

CommentNovember 01, 2023
Demonstrators chant slogans during a rally in front of the French embassy in Beirut on October 16, in solidarity with the Palestinians. AFP
An unwanted backlash in Lebanon

Lebanon's status quo works in the militants' favour, but a generalised conflict would undo all of that

CommentOctober 18, 2023
A convoy of Israeli Armoured Personnel Carriers drives near Israel's border with Lebanon, northern Israel, October 9. Reuters
Will Hezbollah's strategy in the Israel-Gaza war draw the escalation to Lebanon?

Ironically, Israeli thinking might be closer to Hezbollah’s than we know

CommentOctober 09, 2023
More than 80 per cent of Lebanese now live in poverty. AFP
The debasement and death of my generation's Lebanon

Never in its century of existence has the former jewel of the Middle East been so lost and corrupted

CommentSeptember 28, 2023
The Lebanese President's chair has been empty for nearly a year. EPA
The right to Lebanon's presidency is now a liability for Christians

The country's Christians ought to ask themselves whether sectarian power-sharing is really still worth it

CommentSeptember 13, 2023
Members of Health and Medical Workers in Sidon transfer a wounded Palestinian injured during clashes at the Ain Al Hilweh camp in July. EPA
The regional dimension in the Ain Al Hilweh clashes

Could there have been an Iranian hand in the fighting that took place? If so, here could be why

CommentAugust 30, 2023
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