Lina Khatib is the director of the SOAS Middle East Institute at SOAS University of London and an associate fellow at Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme, where she previously served as director.

The axis of infiltration

As Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and the confrontation between Iran and Israel increase in intensity, Hezbollah finds itself needing to assert itself…

The “Axis of Resistance” myth

It is time to call time on the notion of an “axis of resistance”. Throughout the 20 years of the term’s existence, it has been useful for invoking…

America’s elastic red line

When an air strike killed dozens of civilians sheltering in a refugee camp in Rafah, the horrific scenes sparked an international outcry, but not…