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Makram Rabah
Makram Rabah

Makram Rabah is a lecturer at the American University of Beirut, Department of History. His book Conflict on Mount Lebanon: The Druze, the Maronites and Collective Memory (Edinburgh University Press) covers collective identities and the Lebanese Civil War.

For whom the bell tolls: Lebanon’s clockwork absurdity

The recent Saudi Iranian Chinese sponsored détente was received as a good sign and as a first step towards restoring normality in an area plagued with instability and violence. Yet in the case of...

 Syrian dictator exploits political position on back of earthquakes

The recent devastating earthquake which hit Turkey and Syria have left behind its thousands of dead and a region devasted with unprecedented destruction, a calamity which perhaps will never be fully...

 Bitar needs to hold nerve and hold Hezbollah to account

Lebanese courts have a visible phrase inscribed over their bench: “Justice is the pillar of Governance”.This ethos was recently put to the test, not to say shattered, with the decision of Judge Tarek...

 Lebanon’s lack of love in its time of cholera

Dead in the water is perhaps the best term to describe Lebanon, as the country continues to experience crises, including a recent cholera outbreak. It continues also in its struggle to elect a new...

 Lebanon’s last hero: The lion of Taif Hussein el-Husseini

There are few within the Lebanon political establishment who deserve the designation of statesman, as the vast majority of Lebanon’s so-called political elite has proven to be incorrigible and beyond...

 Hezbollah’s UNIFIL ambush with impunity from the world breeds terror

Last Wednesday night, the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL), who have been operating since 1978, were reminded of the scary reality of their deployment in a volatile area. Iran’s...

 Lebanese Israeli demarcation isn’t necessarily the real deal

Over the past week, a wave of optimism dominated Lebanon’s political scene with the news of a potential conclusion of the US-led mediation efforts to restrict the Lebanese-Israel maritime border. This...

 Iran’s regional position no less satanic than the verses it opposes

Three weeks have passed since the violent attack on the renowned British writer Salman Rushdie, the author of the controversial book the Satanic Verses. When it was published in 1988 it earned him a...