Delighted to share my latest Carnegie paper: carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

🌍Is the Middle East shaping the future of global politics? Opening event of the Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East at the CCCB with @yezidsayigh.bsky.social, Natalia Sancha & Tinhinan El Kadi (mod. Eduard Soler). t.ly/YLiFd @iemed.bsky.social & Catalonia International

This interview by @ichotiner.bsky.social with a member of the Israeli opposition adds clarity to how absent a meaningful alternative to Netanyahu exists in Israel when it comes to military & foreign policy. Chotiner does a good job pointing out their incoherence 🧵 www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

In my latest, I argue that a ceasefire in Lebanon remains vulnerable to Netanyahu's exploitation of U.S.-Iranian arm-twisting, both as they work on an interim agreement to reopen Hormuz and once they move to core issues Lebanon at the mercy of strangers open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

A hugely important, carefully balanced and critical assessment by @kahal.bsky.social: Why Devastating Iran’s Economy Will Not Break the Islamic Republic open.substack.com/pub/kahalzad...

Methodical suppression of labour is a shared trait of authoritarian and fascist regimes: Egypt’s Independent Unions: Organized Into Silence open.substack.com/pub/thecairo...

US and UAE basically formalising colonial extractive structures: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Useful ideas, even if prospects of implementing them are remote, by International Crisis Group's Heiko Wimmen: www.crisisgroup.org/cmt/middle-e...

As planned U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad are aborted, my latest post looks at prospects for the ceasefire in the Gulf: The Gulf ceasefire that cannot be open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

Ministers are exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. I've signed the open letter to Wes Streeting calling on him to get Palantir out of the NHS. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/we...

Very interesting, carefully nuanced assessment of attitudes in Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community towards peace talks with Israel, from Mohamad Fawaz: carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

As it gets harder to sift thru the constant swings relating to the U.S.-Iran tussle over the Strait of Hormuz and peace talks, I offer an interpretation in my latest post: The Gulf ceasefire that cannot be open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

Open access to "The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries," by my amazing mother, Rosemary Sayigh, who turned an impressive 99 this month. Published in 1979, it went thru several reprints & translations and remains a landmark book: michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Great resource on the Arab Left and radicalism in the Arab East in radicalism in the 20th century: 40+ hours of podcasts narrated by Abdel Razzaq Takriti: www.patreon.com/posts/announ...

Ahead of direct talks between Lebanon and Israel, my assessment remains that the outcome for Lebanon depends on the ongoing U.S.-Iran contest of wills and "negotiation through fire" in the Gulf: What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon? open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

Iran exported its wars for 25 years, but then Washington changed the rules. @hhassan.bsky.social  and Kamran Bokhari on the 'Third Gulf War' and the threshold it crossed.

Also Raya Jalabi: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The 10 minutes that set Lebanon ablaze

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has had major worldwide impacts, but still tends to be analysed in isolation from the global geopolitical context. So my recent post asks: A respite in the Gulf, but will it stop the slide to world war? open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

One day after Israel killed 254 people and injured more than 1,000 others in Lebanon in ten minutes, its Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to direct peace talks with Lebanon. My latest article raises the following question: What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon? open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

As the Gulf war shows, the boundary between multiple localized wars and world war is becoming blurry In my latest Substack post I ask: A respite in the Gulf, but will it stop the slide to world war? open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

@raniaab.bsky.social is a superb reporter and writer, here is her account of Israel's carnage in Lebanon yesterday: The Iran War Is Not Over: Scenes from a day of carnage in Beirut. nymag.com/intelligence...

This Wednesday at 6pm (UK time BST), join us at Caabu for this online briefing on the ongoing wars in the Middle East with Negin Shiraghaei, @drhahellyer.bsky.social and @yezidsayigh.bsky.social . More details and registration here: caabu.org/events/caabu...

Do join us for this @caabu.bsky.social online briefing on the ongoing wars in the Middle East on Wednesday 8 April at 6pm (UK time BST), with @drhahellyer.bsky.social, @yezidsayigh.bsky.social and Negin Shiraghaei. Register here: caabu.org/events/caabu...

"What are memory, reconstruction, and the power of the image when the place is gone?" Satellite images show Israeli excavators demolishing Khiam Detention Center in southern Lebanon, where 5,000+ were once held and tortured, reports @@baydoun.nl  

Join us at Caabu for this online briefing on the ongoing wars in the Middle East on Wednesday 8 April at 6pm (BST UK time) with Negin Shiraghaei, @drhahellyer.bsky.social, and @yezidsayigh.bsky.social. More details and registration here: caabu.org/events/caabu...

Q for librarians: I'm trying to find out when the first version' of Congressional Research Service's "Changes in the Arctic" was issued (www.congress.gov/crs-product/...) if you click on PDFversion history versions go back to 2018, but I know it is much older. How do I find out the year of 1st issue

The NY Times article on Israeli demographic engineering/ethnic cleansing in Southern Lebanon is rightfully getting a lot of attention. I'd just highlight it represents a continuity, not only with Israeli strategies in Southern Lebanon in the 1980s, but with Zionist strategies in the 1948.

"The digital transformation, which promised to streamline health care, has instead added an unpaid second shift — this time on the accredited social health activist (or ASHA) workers’ phones."

At its 61st regular session, the UN Human Rights Council adopted two further resolutions on Palestine - On the illegality of Israeli settlements in the West Bank: docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/61/L.… - On the Palestinian right to self-determination: docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/61/L.���

BREAKING: President Trump has issued an unlawful executive order attempting to severely restrict mail-in voting. The Constitution is clear: Only the states or Congress can change election laws.

I visited Lebanon's suicide prevention hotline center, where calls have doubled in comparison with 2024's mass displacement. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Damned if they do, damned if they don't: Arab Gulf states are trapped between taking hits from Iran or responding vigorously and being hit even harder - in a war they didn't want in the first place My latest comment: Tough choices for Arab Gulf states open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

Superb, concise explanation by Adam Hanieh of how and why the US-Israeli war on Iran is having such massive impacts on economies and production around the world: Bottling the World Economy www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

A careful assessment of trajectories in the Iran war based on war-gaming, well worth reading carefully for its insights into complex dynamics, not simply its projections: Escalation risks in the U.S.-Israel-Iran war open.substack.com/pub/flashnot...

Grassroots efforts are emerging to support displaced families in Lebanon - please help fund them. This is one I trust: “Think of Others,” a chosen recipient of the Lebanon Humanitarian FundFundraiser for families displaced to North Lebanon in 2024 www.instagram.com/p/DVmKXK8DSkg/

Grassroots efforts are emerging to support displaced families in Lebanon - please help fund them. This is one I trust: 'Support for families Staying in South Lebanon' 4fund.com/7s9ab7

Grassroots efforts are emerging to support displaced families in Lebanon - please help fund them. This is one I trust: Lebanon’s Mental Health Emergency Response donorbox.org/embrace-leba...

🚨 New blog: Israel's Lethal Hubris in Lebanon While the official aim of Israel’s war on Lebanon is clear: complete disarmament of Hezbollah, Israel is drawing itself into the same trap as the US in Iran, writes @yezidsayigh.bsky.social Read the full piece here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2026/03/...

While the official aim of Israel’s war on Lebanon is clear – complete disarmament of Hezbollah – Israel is drawing itself into the same trap as the US in Iran, writes @yezidsayigh.bsky.social @carnegiemec.bsky.social on the @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social blog.

March 28 could be the biggest protest in US history — let’s all help make it so. Find your local No Kings demonstration to make it clear that America rejects the Trump regime’s brutality at home and abroad.

My latest commentary on Israeli hubris in Lebanon and its destructive effects open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

On the real tensions brewing in the Gulf that won’t make it in lazy headlines. Must thank Jadaliyya editors for giving me the space to do this.

Eight year old Mustafa Bani Odeh. His parents and two siblings murdered in front of him by plainclothed Israeli soldiers, while he was beaten up by them. West Bank. The same unit executed two Palestinians three months ago after they surrendered. Every. Day.

A perfect time to revisit this narrative of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon: The War in Lebanon www.merip.org/1982/09/the-...

Aviv Tatarsky. One of the most committed Jewish Israeli activists in defending Palestinians in the West Bank. Attacked by settlers viciously yesterday in Dir Istya where he was helping a Palestinian farmer. Israeli soldiers were there and did nothing. Every. Day. Photo: @nirhasson.bsky.social on X

With the world's attention focused on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Israel is making conditions unlivable for Palestinians in the West Bank. Residents say that every Israeli measure to "strangle" Palestinians feels like it's "irreversible." mondoweiss.net/2026/03/isra... #Palestine #Israel

Israel’s goals in Lebanon cannot be measured today against what it sought in 2024. A great deal more than the disarmament of Hezbollah is on the Israeli agenda. In my latest post I ask: What Is Israel’s Plan in Lebanon? open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

‘My mother said she would cook kabsa. Kabsa was not just a meal. It was a declaration that this day was different. The tent slowly filled with the smell of spices – a scent we had not experienced in months.’ Hassan Ayman Herzallah collects gas in Gaza, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

My latest post asks “What Is Israel’s Plan in Lebanon?” Short answer: Its goals are far more ambitious and far-reaching than in its 2024 war with Hezbullah. carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

This time around, Israel intends to reap the full rewards of its battlefield success in the 2024 war. My latest Substack post tries to answer the question bewildering many people, not least in Lebanon: What was Hezbullah thinking?! open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...