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Paul Salem
Paul Salem is Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut.
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Hezbollah in a Corner
Paul Salem Series: Islam 2010-07-23The future of Hezbollah has never looked more uncertain. Indeed, given the recent death of Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, rising tension with Israel, and possible international criminal indictments of its operatives, Hezbollah appears to be hemmed in on all sides.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 1 Read: 13291
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Learning to Leave Extremism
Paul Salem Series: Islam 2009-10-27
The struggle for the future of the Arab and Muslim worlds that is being fought now will be won or lost not on the battlefield, but in the classroom. Radical Islamists recognized this long ago, but it is a lesson that the West has yet to learn.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 1 Read: 12231
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Lebanon Goes West
Paul Salem Series: The World in Words 2009-06-09The victory of the pro-Western March 14 alliance over the Hezbollah-led March 8 coalition in Lebanon's general election elicited a nearly audible sigh of relief from Arab capitals, as well as from leaders in Europe and North America. But there is good reason to believe that Hezbollah wasn't disappointed by the outcome, either.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 10140
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Lebanon’s New Status Quo
Paul Salem Series: Islam 2008-07-02Hezbollah’s armed insurrection in May, which overran Beirut and other parts of Lebanon, has left it strengthened it and further weakened the Western-backed government. While the political accord negotiated in Doha, Qatar, may bring months, or even years, of relative calm, there can be no real stability until the Lebanese state is able to integrate or dominate non-state militias.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 15328
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Iran’s Troubled Rise
Paul Salem Series: Islam 2007-02-16America’s decision to target Iranian agents in Iraq who may be involved in supporting violent militias is but another sign of the massive influence Iran is exercising in that troubled country. But the United States in fact facilitated Iran’s growing influence by toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime and that of the Taliban in Afghanistan, thus removing two factors that had kept the Iranian regime hemmed in for the last two decades. Moreover, high oil prices have filled the national treasury, and Iran is benefiting from the opportunity created by America’s being bogged down in Iraq and the growing international weight of Russia and China. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 19138
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Lebanon’s Example to Iraq
Paul Salem Series: Islam 2003-10-06Iraq’s voters have spoken. Now a new government must be formed and a new constitution written. Lebanon, argues Paul Salem, may provide a guide for those Iraqis who seek a constitution that can reconcile the country’s Shi-ite, Sunni, Kurdish and Turkmen communities. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 19847
