Cassandra Voices Lebanon

Lebanon: 5,000 Kilometres Away

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Beirut, Mar Elias, 26 November, 7pm. Despite the cold wave that hit the city this week (8 degrees Celsius is equivalent to 0 in the Mediterranean), my mother and sister left all the windows and doors open, to prevent the worst. They are – as I type – sitting in my sister’s room in the … Read more

Lebanon: Domestic Considerations May Prove Decisive to Hezbollah

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Media coverage of the war currently unfolding in Lebanon describe Hezbollah as an “Iranian-backed” group, and frame the conflict as one between them and Israel. In this reading, little attention is given to Lebanon beyond Hezbollah, nor that Hezbollah, for all its links to Iran, is first and foremost a Lebanese group embedded in Lebanon’s … Read more