Paul Salem
Paul Salem is Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut.
Hezbollah maintains its power as a military force, but it has lost its halo as a voice for the oppressed. Indeed, it has exposed itself as a partisan and sectarian party that will side with Iran and i… read more
The 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 i… read more
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 … read more
The 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 lea… read more
Hezbollah’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 negot… read more
