He has navigated it through a blistering financial crisis that has drastically ... Past Army commanders who became president of Lebanon: Fouad Chehab (1958–1964); Émile Lahoud (1998–2007 ...

The 46th president mixed foreign weakness with domestic fecklessness to make his administration an era-defining bad example.

However, by the end of Chamoun’s term, the 1958 crisis impacted Lebanon’s economic stability. Fouad Chehab (1958-1964) President Chehab’s term was marked by institutional growth. The Social Security ...

and eventually led to a diplomatic crisis in 2021. Riyadh had been critical of Lebanese authorities’ failure to combat drug smuggling from the tiny country into the kingdom, and eventually imposed ...

by Eisenhower during the Lebanon crisis in 1958 and in response to a threatened Chinese invasion of Quemoy and Matsu in 1954 and 1958, by Kennedy during the Berlin crisis in 1961 and the Cuban Missile ...

Michael Lavalette looks at the life and works of the Palestinian writer and activist Ghassan Kanafani and reviews two recent ...

The escalation of Hezbollah-Israel war in late 2024, which led to widespread destruction and large displacement, has left 30% ...

The vote was seen as a crucial milestone for Lebanon, and people in Beirut, the capital, celebrated with fireworks and gunfire as the results became clear. The crisis-hit nation has endured a ...

He emphasized the need to reform Lebanon’s political conduct, asserting: “We are in a governance crisis that demands a change in our political behavior.” He concluded with a promise ...

His election ended a two-year power vacuum and revived hopes of lifting war-battered Lebanon out of economic crisis. The eastern Mediterranean country has been run by a caretaker government since ...

Lebanon had been without a president since October 2022, run by a caretaker government amid a crushing economic crisis compounded by all-out war between Lebanese group Hezbollah and Israel.