Michael Karam

Is this the end for Hezbollah?

25 September 2024 8:38 pm

The recent fighting between Israel and Hezbollah is a war that’s not yet officially a war, initiated by a political…

The Lebanese always return home

20 April 2024 9:00 am

Beirut You might have thought that the threat of the Gaza war spiralling into an all-out regional conflagration, along with…

Is it too late to save Lebanon?

25 July 2020 9:00 am

The country is collapsing

Ya Allah!

16 September 2017 9:00 am

Last month Luigi Brugnaro, the mayor of Venice, warned that anyone who yelled Allahu Akbar (‘God is the greatest’) in…

How Lebanon is coping with more than a million Syrian refugees

14 November 2015 9:00 am

How tiny Lebanon copes with an unstoppable flow of Syrian refugees

Why I’ve joined Lebanon’s exodus

1 November 2014 9:00 am

The long shadow of the Islamic State means that many Christians are packing up and leaving Lebanon

When Syria sneezes, Lebanon catches a cold

14 September 2013 9:00 am

  Beirut News that the Syrian regime has agreed to hand in its arsenal of chemical weapons is a great…