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Makram Rabah

  • Contributor, Al Arabiya
  • Managing Editor, NOW Lebanon
  • Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut
As seen in: Al Arabiya, NOW Lebanon, Al Arabiya English, Anadolu Agency, Middle East Eye, Daily Star (Lebanon), L'Orient Today, L'Orient-Le Jour, Egypt Independent, Hoover Institution, Pressenza in English, The Arab Weekly and
Assistant Professor of History | American University of Beirut | views my own mr62@aub.edu.lb
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When Tokyo Fell - Nowlebanon

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By Makram Rabah
| NOW Lebanon Verified
[responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"] This morning, while driving to work along the Beirut waterfront, I passed near the old Tokyo restaurant, that strange and unforgettable building by the old Manara lighthouse, facing the Sporting Basketball Club. It was being demolished. For a brief moment, I slowed down, not because traffic forced me to, but because something in the scene demanded that I look.
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The Exams are Cancelled. So Is the Illusion.

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By Makram Rabah
| NOW Lebanon Verified
[responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"] AI GENERATED IMAGE There are moments in the life of a country when a single decision reveals more than a thousand speeches ever could. Lebanon cancelling its official exams this year is one of those moments. On paper, it is an administrative decision. A cabinet decree. A response to an academic year so battered by instability that holding national exams became, apparently, impossible.
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Vance and Ghalibaf’s Shared Blind Spot on Lebanon

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By Makram Rabah
| kataeb.org
The remarkable thing about the recent statements by US Vice President JD Vance and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is not how different they are, but how much they reveal about the assumptions that continue to shape foreign attitudes toward Lebanon. At first glance, the contrast appears obvious. Vance reassured Lebanon’s Christians that they have friends in Washington and attributed the country’s instability to Hezbollah’s continued military presence.
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