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Phillip Smyth
Category: Authors/Profiles
Phillip Smyth is a freelance journalist and makes frequent trips to Lebanon and the broader Middle East. He specializes in the study of Middle Eastern Christian communities, regional ...Tuesday, 03 August 2010 -
A New Kataeb
Category: Content/In Focus
... to maintain the social, political and economic privileges the Maronite Christian minority gained in collaborating with French imperialism”. With most of its membership belonging ...Sunday, 01 August 2010 -
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood gears towards elections
Category: Content/In Focus
... fear is that the Coptic Christian minority will start making similar demands – but their real worry is that the ruling party National Democratic Party (NDP) is likely to grab those extra seats. ...Monday, 05 July 2010 -
Israel's silicon army
Category: Content/Headlines
As it retreats into greater indifference toward global opinion, Israel has come to rely on cynical appeals to American technophiles and evangelical Christians. Spencer Ackerman on Netanyahu’s last allies ...Friday, 04 June 2010 -
'We want to reform the system, not become the nineteenth sect'
Category: Content/In Focus
... what is the situation that the group wants to change? Lebanon's population is divided into eighteen religious communities, each belonging either to the Muslim or the Christian spheres. The country's politics ...Tuesday, 18 May 2010 -
Political Shi'ism: from engaging the state to replacing it
Category: Content/In Focus
... Christians to (forced) migration from West to East Beirut – the Shi’ites would find resort and sanctuary in Musa Al-Sadr and Amal’s militias in the late 1970s. Al-Sadr’s emergence ...Tuesday, 04 May 2010 -
Lebanese Federalism and Decentralization: Its Proponents and Discontents
Category: Content/In Focus
Lebanon is home to countless religious sects. Maronite Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Shia and Sunni Muslims, Druze, Alawites and Copts, to name a few. Additionally, many Lebanese Christians claim a ...Sunday, 25 October 2009 -
The Lebanese Political Party System
Category: Content/In Focus
... base is located. Thus Amal and Hezbollah have well developed party structures in the southern suburbs of Beirut; Future’s party organization concentrates on West Beirut, whereas the Christian parties ...Sunday, 18 October 2009 -
The SIS Factor in Beirut
Category: Content/In Focus
... of state, a Sunni, a Shiite, and a Christian. Hizbullah would get to name the Shiite minister of the President’s bloc—giving it 11 rather than 10 seats out of 30, meaning an effective blocking ...Sunday, 11 October 2009 -
Interview with Wiam Wahhab
Category: Content/Interviews
... the Christians in March 14. The current cabinet includes Lahoud and Arslan, who also lost their bid in the elections. MS: In 2005, Michel Aoun was the first to oppose appointing a candidate ...Friday, 02 October 2009 -
Lebanon's Ex-President Emile Lahoud: "We are in a State of War with Israel"
Category: Content/Interviews
... the Christians withdrew from the Chouf area. I knew that this would not be the case. These people were fighting for their country. They had no interest in creating religious dissensions or other trouble. ...Friday, 02 October 2009 -
Divided between Ideas
Category: Content/In Focus
... freedom was becoming a reality, especially among the Christians. But then things started to fall apart. Lebanese were divided on almost every single issue: Syria, the STL, the arms of Lebanese and non-Lebanese ...Friday, 02 October 2009 -
Who Are We
Category: Content/About Us
... in the study of Middle Eastern Christian communities, regional nationalisms and Lebanese politics. Phillip has extensive connections with many Middle Eastern political leaders and has served as an adviser ...Sunday, 30 August 2009 -
Towards a more central role in conflict management
Category: Content/Saudi Arabia
... Dr. Christian Koch: The Kingdom has understood from the outset that there can be no military solution to the problem of terrorism. Therefore, it adopted a multi-pronged approach. It has strengthened ...Wednesday, 06 January 2010
