Hanin Ghaddar is the Friedmann senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and author of its 2022 study titled “Hezbollahland: Mapping Dahiya and Lebanon’s Shia Community.”

The Death of the “Resistance”  

When Hezbollah declared itself as a resistance movement in 1982, it didn’t create an original concept. The National Resistance Front – composed of…

What Did Macron Accomplish in Lebanon?

One day ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Lebanon, a new Prime Minister was designated to form a new government, which is supposed…

Iran’s Internal and Regional Quicksand 

Iran has been going through a financial crisis since it was hit with US sanctions a few years back, and this crisis had serious ramifications on the…

Iran’s Dark Post-Coronavirus Scenarios

In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic that has paralyzed the world and shifted all states’ efforts inwards and towards the health of their own…