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Helena Cobban

Helena Cobban blogs at JustWorldNews.org. Her 1985 book The Making of Modern Lebanon was named to Choice magazine's list of Outstanding Academic Books. She is president of the nonprofit Just World Educational.

Articles

A recent Foreign Affairs article gets history wrong and obscures a robust Palestinian discourse.

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The explosion was only the latest tragedy in the city’s long decline.
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The decline of Israel’s progressive movement.

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Hamas and the end of the two-state solution.
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Hizbullah's victory, Israel's choice.
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Finding the road to Palestine.
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In search of a Muslim democracy.
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Can an international court deliver justice?

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Syria has been opening up. A war will shut it down.
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As Arafat declines and Israel's grip tightens, the Middle East sinks into hopelessness.

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Forum Responses

Nir Rosen is right: the Afghan surge will end badly; and surely President Obama is too knowledgeable to imagine it could end any differently. One of the few saving graces about the...
Helena Cobban
Barry Posen is right to make the case for a substantial withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq (though I continue to argue for a withdrawal that, unlike his, is complete, speedy, and...
Helena Cobban
On a lovely summer evening a few years ago, I sat with my old Oxford friend Sari Nuseibeh on the balcony of his apartment in Abu Dis, watching the sun set over...
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