Hassan I Mneimneh

The long-lasting political polarization in Lebanon has created schisms beyond the political and into the social and the cultural, tainting and reshaping competing national narratives. It is against such a backdrop of imbalance and tension that a role for Turkey would have been of a considerably bene...

Although the EU’s designation of Hezbollah’s “military wing” as a terrorist organization represents a corrective convergence of EU and U.S. perceptions, transatlantic cooperation continues to suffer from divided approaches to the Lebanese group. This paper argues that the political influence of Hezb...

At the onset of the dramatic transformations in the Arab world more than two years ago, Turkey seemed positioned to assume an important role as a political, economic, and ideological reference for the emerging polities of the region. Two years on, the potential for a Turkish leadership role has rece...

In these times of historic change affecting the Arab world, the moment may be opportune for the Middle East and East Asia to upgrade their engagement, bringing to the fore models of evolution and achievement that may benefit the new political and social order bound to emerge in the aftermath of the ...

Islamists are scoring electoral gains in the Arab Spring. This is indeed a victory for many Islamists, but not a victory for Islamism. Far from a defining triumph, these are precarious gains that will reverse unless Islamism is fundamentally transformed. Such transformed “Islamism” may retain little...

In 2002, sixty prominent American intellectuals released an open letter defending the use of military force against al-Qa'ida. The letter sparked an impassioned international debate unlike any other, in which jihadists, journalists, liberal Muslims, and German pacifists engaged one another on the mo...