B’Tselem's Yuli Novak writes: "The logic of elimination does not require every Palestinian to disappear. It seeks to make Palestinian collective life increasingly impossible while securing permanent Israeli Jewish control." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

A thorough - and thoroughly alarming - survey of the environmental and social impacts of the Iran war carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

The Iran War’s Climate, Environmental, and Human Security Fallout

Understanding the climatic pain points is necessary for policymakers hoping to minimize the war’s negative environmental consequences.

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An excellent article by my colleague Nathan Brown - a genuine must-read! carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

Old Wine in New Battles

It is improbable that Israel’s forthcoming elections will alter much in terms of how the country thinks about security.

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I've resumed my substack posts! The looming implications of a messianic Israeli army sayighyezid.substack.com/p/the-loomin...

The looming implications of a messianic Israeli army

Arab states that have made peace, conduct intelligence dialogue, or are allied with Israel have yet to take stock of ideological trends in the Israeli military that will challenge their assumptions

sayighyezid.substack.com

Are we asking the right questions about escalation in the Gulf? sayighyezid.substack.com/p/are-we-ask...

Are we asking the right questions about escalation in the Gulf?

The real question to ask about the U.S.-Iran standoff is: how much will the looming midterm elections in the U.S. alter options and prospects for a deal?

sayighyezid.substack.com

Delighted to share my latest Carnegie paper: carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

Egypt’s Military Landlord Economy and its Limitations

The armed forces champion a form of capitalism that is generating revenue, but its reliance on rent faces diminishing returns, leaving the country with massive sunk costs and deferred returns, deepeni...

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🌍Is the Middle East shaping the future of global politics? Opening event of the Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East at the CCCB with @yezidsayigh.bsky.social, Natalia Sancha & Tinhinan El Kadi (mod. Eduard Soler). t.ly/YLiFd @iemed.bsky.social & Catalonia International

This interview by @ichotiner.bsky.social with a member of the Israeli opposition adds clarity to how absent a meaningful alternative to Netanyahu exists in Israel when it comes to military & foreign policy. Chotiner does a good job pointing out their incoherence 🧵 www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Do Netanyahu’s Domestic Opponents Offer a Real Alternative?

Moshe Tur-Paz is one of many centrist Israeli politicians criticizing Donald Trump’s deal to temporarily stop the war with Iran.

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In my latest, I argue that a ceasefire in Lebanon remains vulnerable to Netanyahu's exploitation of U.S.-Iranian arm-twisting, both as they work on an interim agreement to reopen Hormuz and once they move to core issues Lebanon at the mercy of strangers open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

Lebanon at the mercy of strangers

No change in prospects for Lebanon after Trump’s latest announcement of a partial ceasefire between Israel and Hezbullah

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A hugely important, carefully balanced and critical assessment by @kahal.bsky.social: Why Devastating Iran’s Economy Will Not Break the Islamic Republic open.substack.com/pub/kahalzad...

Why Devastating Iran’s Economy Will Not Break the Islamic Republic

Published at the Arab Center Washington DC

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Methodical suppression of labour is a shared trait of authoritarian and fascist regimes: Egypt’s Independent Unions: Organized Into Silence open.substack.com/pub/thecairo...

Egypt’s Independent Unions: Organized Into Silence

Labor dispatch!

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US and UAE basically formalising colonial extractive structures: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Congo Plans Paramilitary Unit for Mines with US, UAE Funding

The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said.

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Useful ideas, even if prospects of implementing them are remote, by International Crisis Group's Heiko Wimmen: www.crisisgroup.org/cmt/middle-e...

To Salvage the Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire, Work within Its Limits | International Crisis Group

The truce between Israel and Hizbollah, extended on 23 April, is hanging by a thread. The monitoring mechanism established for the previous ceasefire could help preserve the current one.

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As planned U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad are aborted, my latest post looks at prospects for the ceasefire in the Gulf: The Gulf ceasefire that cannot be open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

The Gulf ceasefire that cannot be

The U.S. blockade threatens Iran with a hurting stalemate and loss of the strategic deterrence it gained through its control over the Strait of Hormuz

open.substack.com

Ministers are exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. I've signed the open letter to Wes Streeting calling on him to get Palantir out of the NHS. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/we...

Wes Streeting: Trigger the break clause and get Palantir out of the NHS - Foxglove

Wes Streeting: trigger the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS. ADD YOUR NAME NOW!

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Very interesting, carefully nuanced assessment of attitudes in Lebanon's Sunni Muslim community towards peace talks with Israel, from Mohamad Fawaz: carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

How Lebanon’s Sunnis Approach Peace With Israel

The community seeks maintain a distance from Hezbollah, and an even greater one from normalization with their southern neighbor.

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As it gets harder to sift thru the constant swings relating to the U.S.-Iran tussle over the Strait of Hormuz and peace talks, I offer an interpretation in my latest post: The Gulf ceasefire that cannot be open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

The Gulf ceasefire that cannot be

The U.S. blockade threatens Iran with a hurting stalemate and loss of the strategic deterrence it gained through its control over the Strait of Hormuz

open.substack.com

Open access to "The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries," by my amazing mother, Rosemary Sayigh, who turned an impressive 99 this month. Published in 1979, it went thru several reprints & translations and remains a landmark book: michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Great resource on the Arab Left and radicalism in the Arab East in radicalism in the 20th century: 40+ hours of podcasts narrated by Abdel Razzaq Takriti: www.patreon.com/posts/announ...

Announcing ThawraProject.com! | The Dig

Get more from The Dig on Patreon

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Ahead of direct talks between Lebanon and Israel, my assessment remains that the outcome for Lebanon depends on the ongoing U.S.-Iran contest of wills and "negotiation through fire" in the Gulf: What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon? open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon?

Until and unless Donald Trump ends the Gulf war, Lebanon will remain hostage to Israeli domestic politics

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Iran exported its wars for 25 years, but then Washington changed the rules. @hhassan.bsky.social  and Kamran Bokhari on the 'Third Gulf War' and the threshold it crossed.

The ‘Third Gulf War’ And Its Aftermath

Tehran built a doctrine of resistance designed for export, not for local consumption, but then Washington broke a quarter-century taboo about striking Iran

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Also Raya Jalabi: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The 10 minutes that set Lebanon ablaze

Yezid Sayigh@yezidsayigh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@raniaab.bsky.social is a superb reporter and writer, here is her account of Israel's carnage in Lebanon yesterday: The Iran War Is Not Over: Scenes from a day of carnage in Beirut. nymag.com/intelligence...

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has had major worldwide impacts, but still tends to be analysed in isolation from the global geopolitical context. So my recent post asks: A respite in the Gulf, but will it stop the slide to world war? open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

A respite in the Gulf, but will it stop the slide to world war?

The boundary between multiple localized wars and world war is becoming blurry

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One day after Israel killed 254 people and injured more than 1,000 others in Lebanon in ten minutes, its Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to direct peace talks with Lebanon. My latest article raises the following question: What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon? open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

What determines Israel’s war on Lebanon?

Until and unless Donald Trump ends the Gulf war, Lebanon will remain hostage to Israeli domestic politics

open.substack.com

As the Gulf war shows, the boundary between multiple localized wars and world war is becoming blurry In my latest Substack post I ask: A respite in the Gulf, but will it stop the slide to world war? open.substack.com/pub/sayighye...

A respite in the Gulf, but will it stop the slide to world war?

The boundary between multiple localized wars and world war is becoming blurry

open.substack.com

@raniaab.bsky.social is a superb reporter and writer, here is her account of Israel's carnage in Lebanon yesterday: The Iran War Is Not Over: Scenes from a day of carnage in Beirut. nymag.com/intelligence...

This Wednesday at 6pm (UK time BST), join us at Caabu for this online briefing on the ongoing wars in the Middle East with Negin Shiraghaei, @drhahellyer.bsky.social and @yezidsayigh.bsky.social . More details and registration here: caabu.org/events/caabu...

Do join us for this @caabu.bsky.social online briefing on the ongoing wars in the Middle East on Wednesday 8 April at 6pm (UK time BST), with @drhahellyer.bsky.social, @yezidsayigh.bsky.social and Negin Shiraghaei. Register here: caabu.org/events/caabu...

"What are memory, reconstruction, and the power of the image when the place is gone?" Satellite images show Israeli excavators demolishing Khiam Detention Center in southern Lebanon, where 5,000+ were once held and tortured, reports @@baydoun.nl  

Satellite Imagery Reveals the Israeli Demolition of Khiam Detention Center

The prison in southern Lebanon where thousands were held without charge has been razed to the ground, confirming the fears of a researcher who spent years building a virtual reconstruction of the site

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Join us at Caabu for this online briefing on the ongoing wars in the Middle East on Wednesday 8 April at 6pm (BST UK time) with Negin Shiraghaei, @drhahellyer.bsky.social, and @yezidsayigh.bsky.social. More details and registration here: caabu.org/events/caabu...