AboutArticles by Michael Jansen

Economic ruin forces thousands of Lebanese to flee

20 Sep 2020

Lebanese seeking safety and jobs have joined the thousands risking their lives by setting sail in flimsy rafts and small boats with the aim of reaching peaceful and employment-rich shores....

Raging revelations

17 Sep 2020

Bob Woodward’s half century in journalism has been bracketed by dramatic investigations into wrong doing by two US presidents seeking re-election. The first probe produced a series of articles in...

US war on terror: Too great a human cost

13 Sep 2020

Ahead of the 19th anniversary of al-Qaeda’s September 11th 2001 attacks on the US, the Costs of War Project at Brown University issued its latest report. This 30-page survey revealed...

Stepping up

11 Sep 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron has assumed the mantle of peacemaker in the absence of the leaders of Germany, Britain and the US. As German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to...

Germany’s success story over hosting refugees

06 Sep 2020

Fifteen years ago I flew to Munich en route to Bavaria where I was invited to visit friends from Damascus who had made the torturous journey from Syria to Germany...

The lost heritage

03 Sep 2020

The tower block vultures are circling owners and tenants of Beirut’s heritage homes in the Ashrafieh, Mar Mikhael and Gemmayze neighbourhoods offering to buy 19th century Ottoman and 20th century French...

Lebanon can only be rescued by the Lebanese

30 Aug 2020

Discredited Lebanese politicians have waited until today to commence binding parliamentary consultations on a new prime minister only hours before French President Emmanuel Macron arrives for a two-day visit. As...

The battle on the ballot

27 Aug 2020

Donald Trump and the Republican Party are presiding over the systematic “Lebanonization” of the US by promoting unsuitable people to key jobs on the basis of their loyalty to him...

The Lebanon of today is different from the Lebanon of 2005

23 Aug 2020

Last week’s verdict on the assassination of Lebanon’s ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri delivered by the Special Tribunal based near The Hague was a disappointment for those who wanted a clear...

Dynamic duo

20 Aug 2020

Since the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden finally appointed California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate in the Nov.l election, it is useful to look at where the duo...

Michael Jansen

The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.