Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

"Whatever happens in the coming days and weeks, these negotiations and any resulting arrangement should not give the Tehran regime a license to kill its own population or continue destabilizing the region." arab.news/mxxa4

🇮🇱 🇱🇧 Avec son offensive terrestre, Israël prend le risque de la déstabilisation du Liban lopinion.fr/international/… “On a le sentiment que l'histoire se répète, et que l'on a tiré aucune leçon du passé », déplore Karim Emile Bitar, enseignant à Sciences Po Paris.” via @lopinion_fr

Read this. The false conventional wisdoms and The battle of ideas at the heart of Iran war By the Always excellent @Confusezeus | Arab News arabnews.com/node/2637873

@BeirutCalling @soliozel2 The army will be in a far more difficult position if it becomes a buffer to a buffer between Hizballah and Israeli occuption - similar to the PNA/Israel security arrangements.

@BeirutCalling @soliozel2 If anything the principle of disarming Hizballah will be more dofficult to implement if Israel remains in South Lebanon.

The Lebanese armed forces have come under much criticism lately, often because its critics fail to understand the institution's real limitations. Here, I offer an alternative proposal that addresses its fears, but also shows that it can act, at Diwan: carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/di…

🇱🇧 A major milestone for justice in the August 4 Port explosion case. Judge Tarek Bitar pushed through with courage and today submitted his final investigation file to the Prosecutor General. The Prosecutor General must now review the file, after which the indictment can be issued. It is important that this step not be delayed. The Judicial Council should then move ahead with the trials, a crucial and likely lengthy step in the process. Pressure will be needed at every stage to ensure that no one evades justice and that those truly responsible are held accountable. So much respect for everyone working tirelessly for this cause and fighting to see justice done.

Not true. @AJEnglish you can reach out to any AUB faculty member (including this one) who would tell you that we have been teaching online since Israel bombed beirut a few weeks ago. Fear mongering or bad journalism or both?

@Panzerfrank Why would you inflict the Madrassa of Oriental and African Studies on anyone?

@Confusezeus I must introduce you to a girl I am sponsoring as a protege. She is doing a course in international relations in Istanbul and wants to study IR at SOAS if we can get her a Visa. I have introduced her to Gene Rogan's books and pointed her at Gertie Bell and told her she can

Not a sensible option mearsheimer.substack.com/p/will-trump-g…

@Panzerfrank On rearranging collapsed empires post WWI, at conferences like Versailles. I think the colonial powers, bless them, did a better job on the Middle East than they did on their own turf in Europe. Spies like Gertie were serious scholars, now they are bureaucrats.

@Confusezeus probably do a better job on reconstructing the Ottoman Empire than Gertie . Collapsing Empires offer much scope for analysis. I wrote my essay for Dmitri on "The Naivite of American Presidents" and will watch with interest how this one goes "Pop"

AUB and LAU, two pillars of Lebanon’s educational system, were forced online due to reported IRGC threats. A chilling echo of the civil war, when Hezbollah assassinated AUB President Malcolm Kerr in 1984. Every Lebanese should remember: the IRGC has not only been an enemy of America, but above all, an enemy of Lebanon itself.

A good point from @aa51_ansari: "Because information coming out of Iran is controlled, the Islamic Republic enjoys an asymmetric advantage in the narrative war. It can suppress information about damages it sustains, while the damage it inflicts is in the open for all to see." newstatesman.com/comment/2026/0…

محاولة قتل الصديق سلطان الحسيني.

@ArzLibnen @ltannir Maybe you're reading too much into this. Mottos don’t need footnotes.

@Confusezeus @ltannir Exactly… maybe they are shy with the name of Jesus.. that is an outcome of Protestantism..

That they may have life and have it abundantly #aub

This was the case with coverage of Syria under Assad.

@ArzLibnen @ltannir "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life and have it abundantly". John 10.10

@ltannir I don’t know why they hided the owner of the quote

The difficulty of hitting Iran’s underground missile bases en.globes.co.il/en/article-ira…

Displacement and dissent: Hezbollah’s war with Israel splits Lebanon’s Shiites by @safieddine00 al-monitor.com/originals/2026… via @AlMonitor

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@leb_poli يعني poli_leb او leb_poli

@Confusezeus وقت ما بتكون الفرق واضح بين الاستسلام و السلام، عندها الارجح انه من يطالب بالسلام فعليا يطالب بالاستسلام.

السلام مشّ استسلام.