Hilal Khashan

Hilal Khashan is a contributing analyst at Geopolitical Futures. He is a Professor of political science at the American University of Beirut and a respected author and analyst of Middle Eastern affairs. He is the author of six books, including Hizbullah: A Mission to Nowhere. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.) He is currently writing a book titled Saudi Arabia: The Dilemma of Political Reform and the Illusion of Economic Development. He is also the author of more than 110 articles that appeared in journals such as Orbis, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Middle East Quarterly, Third World Quarterly, Israel Affairs, Journal of Religion and Society, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

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How Arabs Aggravated Israeli Existential Fears

The Arab world’s hostility to the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine exacerbated the existential fears of many Israelis, developed over centuries of discrimination and persecution in Europe. Arab governments and media repeatedly promoted a campaign of anti-Israeli rhetoric beginning in the late 1940s and peaking during the 1967 Six-Day War. The consequences of […]

Israel and Iran’s Calibrated Conflict

For the past quarter century, Israel has endlessly reiterated its resolve to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, threatening to take military action should sanctions or diplomacy fail. Israel...

Saudi Arabia’s Untenable Modernization Plan

In 2016, when Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman launched a vision for Saudi development, he seemed sure that his country had everything it needed to create a competitive...

Arab-Iranian Relations Burdened by History

There has long been a desire within certain segments of the Arab masses to establish a unity with Persians based on religious fraternity, which the Iranian revolution itself supported....

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Observers of Turkish politics have expected for months that the upcoming elections set for May 14 will be the most hotly contested vote since the founding of the Turkish...

West Bank Violence Stalls Arab-Israeli Normalization

Last month, three senior U.S. officials visited Israel and the Palestinian Territories to try to avert a third Palestinian intifada. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan reiterated the Biden administration’s...

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