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      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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      Lebanon's Daily Star newspaper, one of the leading English-language newspapers in the Arab world and Lebanon's oldest, has folded. AP
      Lebanon's Daily Star should not have ended with a whimper

      Staff at the esteemed publication endured years of on-again, off-again salary payments

      CommentNovember 10, 2021
      Supporters of former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, leader of Lebanon's parliamentary majority, wave Lebanese flags and chant pro-slogans for the list that Hariri's group support, which is called Beirutis' list, during a rally for the Municipality elections, in Beirut, Lebanon. AP Photo
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      The cynical tug-of-war over Lebanon's election date

      The day the vote is held affects everything - from the youth to the diaspora

      CommentOctober 26, 2021
      Cars queue at gas stations in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 6. Egypt agreed to supply natural-gas to Lebanon through Jordan and Syria as the Arab states seek to help end power shortages of their crisis-ridden neighbour. Bloomberg
      Why Syria is being given more leeway

      They believe that Syria's gains, particularly in Lebanon, will reduce Iran’s margin of manoeuvre

      CommentOctober 13, 2021
      A man smokes a hookah as he watches Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speak on television inside a coffee shop in the port city of Sidon, Lebanon. Reuters
      Lebanon is a model of militias taking over the state

      It was the first country to recycle militia leaders into legitimate national figures

      CommentSeptember 29, 2021
      Gebran Bassil's demands were a significant obstacle to the Lebanese Cabinet's formation. Reuters
      Lebanon finally has a government, but Gebran Bassil remains in its way

      The President's son in law is Beirut's perennial political spoiler

      CommentSeptember 15, 2021
      American soldiers stand near armoured fighting vehicles given to the Lebanese army by the US government, at Beirut's port, on August 14, 2017. Reuters
      US military withdrawals don't ensure neat conclusions – look at Beirut

      The aftermath often matters more than the military retreat

      CommentAugust 31, 2021
      Lebanon's President Michel Aoun has asserted himself in the process of government-formation. Reuters
      Aoun may have won the battle, but could he lose the people?

      The Lebanese president's assertiveness in the government-formation process has prolonged the economic crisis

      CommentAugust 18, 2021
      Wounded people are evacuated as smoke rises from the massive explosion in Beirut, August 4, 2020. AP
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      Lebanon's struggle and surrender, one year on

      The port explosion confirmed that Lebanon’s politicians are slowly killing their own people

      CommentAugust 03, 2021
      A man gestures with a currency note as Lebanese protesters block the roads with garbage bins and burning tires during protests after Saad Hariri abandoned efforts to form a new government, in Beirut, Lebanon, July 15. EPA
      Can Syria be the counterweight to Iran's influence over Lebanon?

      The end of Michel Aoun’s term as Lebanon's President will have a major bearing on Syrian-Iranian ties

      CommentJuly 20, 2021
      Saad Hariri reacts after announcing in Beirut his support for Hezbollah ally Michel Aoun to become Lebanese president, October 20, 2017. AP
      Saad Hariri has no easy choices

      Nor can he be indifferent to the costs of failing to form a cabinet

      CommentJuly 07, 2021
      The Lebanese military is a rare constant in the fractured nation. EPA
      Lebanon's army still deserves US aid

      Hawks in America are wrong to suggest that money sent to the ailing country's military should be stopped

      CommentJune 10, 2021
      Beirut's Martyr's Monument. Getty
      The unravelling of the Lebanese dream

      Many in Lebanon no longer seem particularly committed to maintaining a unitary state

      CommentJune 02, 2021
      Lebanese protesters wave Palestinian and Hezbollah flags and shout anti-Israel slogans in Beirut on Monday. EPA
      In Gaza, Hezbollah is not as relevant as it hopes

      Hamas may be part of Iran's 'axis of resistance', but ordinary Palestinians are not

      CommentMay 19, 2021
      Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. AFP
      Iran supported Al Assad, but needed him to stay a pariah

      The rest of the Middle East is starting to accept Syria's status quo, diminishing Damascus's need to cling to Tehran

      CommentMay 05, 2021
      Bassil has ambitions to be Lebanon's president. AFP
      It's getting very lonely being Gebran Bassil

      Snubbed by everyone from the US to Hezbollah, Bassil is learning that even in Lebanon corruption has a price

      CommentApril 20, 2021
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