Hazem Saghieh is political editor of the London-based Arab newspaper al-Hayat.

Recent articles

The political alliance that promised to save and inspire Lebanon in 2005 now needs to renew itself from within, says Hazem Saghieh.

The Arab world is in a protracted and deepening decline that is less to do with the regimes that govern it than with its society and culture, says Hazem Saghieh.

The Arabs' defeat by Israel in the lightning war of 1967 was followed by a deeper failure, says Hazem Saghieh.

The deep and enduring split between Islam's two great sects cannot be healed in a climate of Muslim and Arab denial, says Hazem Saghieh.

The war between Hizbollah and Israel in Lebanon was a contest over the nation-state as the foundational unit of political action, says Hazem Saghieh.