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About Hazem Saghieh

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

Articles by Hazem Saghieh

Friday 24th June

The Arab revolutions: an end to dogma

Hazem Saghieh, 24 June 2011

The popular uprisings in the Arab world are a great disaster for a radical camp led by Syria-Iran and long indulged by media such as al-Jazeera. A great opportunity follows, says Hazem Saghieh.

Monday 18th April

The other Arab exception

Hazem Saghieh, 18 April 2011

The Arab revolutions of 2011 have disproved one argument about the Arabs only to raise another, says Hazem Saghieh.

Monday 14th March

Rafiq al-Hariri's murder: why do Lebanese blame Syria?

Hazem Saghieh, 14 March 2011

The assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister on 14 February has sparked fury in the country and confusion in the region. Lebanese journalist Hazem Saghieh investigates what really happened.

(This article was first published on 21 February 2005)

Tuesday 18th August

The Arab future: conspiracy vs reality

Hazem Saghieh, 18 August 2009

An embarrassing soap-opera of two presidential daughters sums up the Arab predicament

Tuesday 28th July

Israeli settlement, Arab movement

Hazem Saghieh, 28 July 2009

The issue of Israel’s West Bank colonies must not be subsumed by the larger Israel-Palestinian conflict

Monday 20th July

Hizbollah’s “divine victory”: three years on

Hazem Saghieh, 20 July 2009

The militant Islamist movement’s version of the war with Israel in mid-2006 is flawed

Thursday 9th July

Arabs and the Iranian upheaval

Hazem Saghieh, 9 July 2009

Their view of Tehran highlights the Arabs' missed political chances and false trails

Tuesday 23rd June

Iran: dialectic of revolution

Hazem Saghieh, 23 June 2009

Iran's epic conflict is part of a global pattern of revolution using state power to crush its children

Friday 12th June

Lebanon's elections: reading the signs

Hazem Saghieh, 12 June 2009

A peaceful election dissolves myths and shakes the political jigsaw - but what has changed?

Tuesday 1st April

Lebanon’s “14 March”: from protest to leadership

Hazem Saghieh, 1 April 2008

The political alliance that promised to save Lebanon in 2005 must now renew itself

Monday 11th June

The Arab defeat

Hazem Saghieh, 11 June 2007

The Arab world is in a protracted and deepening decline that is less to do with politics than with its society and culture

Thursday 17th May

The six-day war, forty years on

Hazem Saghieh, 17 May 2007

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

Monday 16th April

Sunni and Shi'a: coexistence and conflict

Hazem Saghieh, 16 April 2007

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.

Tuesday 19th December

Lebanon's internal struggle: two logics in combat

Hazem Saghieh, 19 December 2006

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.

Thursday 19th October

Suez: Arab victory or Arab tragedy?

Hazem Saghieh, 19 October 2006

The Suez conflict of October 1956 is remembered as a moment of Arab triumph as well as British and French humiliation. The perspective of fifty years suggests a different lesson to Hazem Saghieh.

Sunday 13th August