Category: Op-Eds
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Lebanon Crisis Revisited, and An Alternative Vision is Re-Presented
Lebanon’s crisis is not merely political or economic, but cultural at its core. A century of collective distrust and exclusion hollowed out the state. Yet Lebanon has known a different path. Revisiting the Chehabist model reveals how citizenship, institutions, and trust can still offer a viable alternative vision.
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من فزّاعةِ الحربِ الأهليَّة إلى حتميّةِ الدَّولةِ
في مقاله الخامس عشر، يؤكد الدكتور زياد الصّائغ أن استحضار شبح الحرب الأهلية في لبنان تحوّل إلى أداة لتعطيل السياسة وتبرير الفشل. ويرى أن الخوف لا يحمي السلم الأهلي بل يضعفه، داعيًا إلى حوكمة عقلانية، واحترام الدستور، وبناء دولة المواطنة كخيار حتمي.
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From the Specter of Civil War to the Inevitability of the State!
In this 15th op-ed, Dr. Ziad El Sayegh argues that invoking the specter of civil war has become a tool of political paralysis in Lebanon. Rather than safeguarding peace, fear weakens it. He calls for rational governance, constitutional legitimacy, and the inevitability of a sovereign State of Citizenship.
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