Franck Salameh

Franck Salameh is an assistant professor of Near Eastern Studies, Arabic and Hebrew at Boston College and the author of Language Memory and Identity in the Middle East: The Case for Lebanon (Lexington Books, 2010).


Commentary

Politics

Lebanon's Resilience

| 04.04.13

The prime minister's resignation doesn't mean Beirut is about to fall into Syrian chaos.

Society

The Enigma of the Syrian Nation

| 03.11.13

Syrian identity was an alien idea until the twentieth century.

Security

An Alawite State in Syria?

| 07.10.12

Syria will never be a unitary entity. The Alawites would sooner retreat to the highlands than give up their hold on the country.

Economics

Might Is Right in Syria

| 02.15.12

Saving Syria necessitates overhauling the entire Middle East. A new political map is in order.

Society

The Delusion of an Arab World

| 11.02.11

The toxic remnants of a negationalist Arab nationalism.

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