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'Lebanon cannot afford to wait' | Fathom Interview | Hanin Ghaddar

By Hanin Ghaddar
On April 23, Fathom spoke to Lebanon expert Hanin Ghaddar, the Friedman Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute.... Read more > April 2026

Stability has a language: How the West Learned to speak Arab nationalism

By Dastan Jasim
Dastan Jasim argues that anti-Kurdish violence by regimes, ideologies, and political movements in Arab countries reflects a shared,... Read more > March 2026

Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor | Living Through Historic Times

By Calev Ben-Dor
It was 19th-century British novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton who allegedly said that the pen was mightier than... Read more > March 2026

The radical Left’s merger with Islamist despotism

By Samuel Hyde
Samuel Hyde maps the merging of the radical Left’s ideology with Islamism and its lionisation of Iran’s Islamic... Read more > March 2026

The Architecture of Paternalism: Why the Diaspora is failing Iran

By Parvin Mahsati
An Iranian woman studying abroad criticises those in the Diaspora urging more patience and diplomacy with the Islamic... Read more > March 2026

Diary from Tel Aviv | Dana Kessler | Under Rocket Fire

By Dana Kessler
Tel Aviv, March 2, 2026. Early morning. Two days ago, a siren woke us up around 8am. It... Read more > March 2026

How Syria’s transition went off the rails

By Giran Ozcan
Giran Ozcan argues that it is easy, and wrong, to find simple causes for the recent violence in... Read more > February 2026

The Uprising in Iran | An Interview with Alireza Nader

By Alireza Nader
With thousands reportedly killed by the regime, Fathom spoke to Iran expert Alireza Nader about the uprising in... Read more > January 2026

AI and Fact-Checking: When Probability Replaces Evidence

By Tal Hagin
In a detailed explainer which will prove especially informative for those aware of the increasingly dominant influence of... Read more > November 2025

The Moderation Gulf

By John Fenn
Open-source intelligence analyst John Fenn examines Saudi counter-extremism centre Etidal’s attempts to confront online extremism. Fenn situates such... Read more > September 2025

The Right Side of History? Iran, Intellectuals, and the Far-Left

By Adam J. Sacks
Adam J. Sacks chronicles the history of left and left-adjacent attraction to Islamist ideology. From early Soviet accommodation... Read more > July 2025

Fathom Interviews | Insights from the 12 Day Israel-Iran War

By Fathom Editors
Sima Shine, Alireza Nader, and Jonathan Rynhold consider the achievements of Israeli and American action in Iran. Were... Read more > July 2025

Fathom Interviews | The Israel-Iran War – What's Next?

By Fathom Editors
On Monday 16 June, Fathom Co-editor Calev Ben-Dor conducted interviews with Matthew Levitt, the Director of the Reinhard... Read more > June 2025

Emanuel Macron's Palestinian Faux Pas

By Sam Shube
Sam Shube critiques French President Macron’s recent foray into Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Attempts to kickstart two state negotiations, Shube... Read more > June 2025

Traditionalist interfaith reconciliation: a necessity for regional peace

By Olga Kirschbaum-Shirazki
The Abraham Accords are not simply a series of normalisation agreements between Muslim countries and Israel, motivated by... Read more > March 2025

Dispatch from Damascus

By Kyle Orton
Kyle Orton reflects on his recent visit to a Syria still adjusting to life after the fall of... Read more > March 2025

Opinion | Israel's futile policy towards Russia

By Azriel Bermant
Azriel Bermant argues for seeing Israel’s vote against a recent UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russian aggression in... Read more > March 2025

Fathom Interview | 'The Gulf wants a non-Iranian aligned Gaza' | Najwa AlSaeed

By Najwa AlSaeed
Najwa AlSaeed talks to Fathom about Gulf states' desire for a post-Hamas Gaza freed from Iranian influence; navigating... Read more > February 2025

Donald Trump 2: historic peacemaker and unifier?

By Paul Gross
Paul Gross considers an ostensibly implausible but tantalising possibility. Hearing some of the wildly enthusiastic responses to Donald... Read more > December 2024

Fathom Interview | The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria

By Itai Anghel
Itai Anghel is an Israeli correspondent and documentary filmmaker, a staff reporter for Uvda, a television news program... Read more > December 2024

A New Chapter for the Middle East? Evaluating the Implications of Political Normalisation and Trade Liberalisation Between Israel and Saudi...

By Marina Barats
Marina Barats is a recent MA International Political Economy graduate from King’s College London Background President Joe Biden... Read more > November 2024

Fathom Interview | Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God

By Matthew Levitt
Matt Levitt is the Director of Reinhard Counter terrorism program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.... Read more > November 2024

2024 is not 2006. This time Israel is beating Hezbollah

By Kyle Orton
Kyle Orton argues those drawing parallels to Israel’s 2006 are radically mistaken. In 2024 Israel intelligence, planning and... Read more > October 2024

Islamic and Arab Imperialism and Irredentism is driving the conflict between the river and the sea

By Richard Landes
Richard Landes is a historian of millennialism living in Jerusalem; his most recent book, Can “The Whole World”... Read more > July 2024

Opinion | The Looming Hezbollah Deterrence Problem

By Seth Frantzman
Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on Wednesday, July 17, setting off alarms in the coastal city of Nahariya... Read more > July 2024

A False Sense of Security, Effective Shield or Morale Booster? Israel’s Missile Defence

By Azriel Bermant
Israel has established an integrated system spanning the entire country to address multiple threats, activating the different systems... Read more > November 2023

Towards Israel-Saudi Normalisation?

By BICOM
In comments this week, President Joe Biden discussed the possibility of normalisation between Israel and Saudi Arabia. While... Read more > July 2023

The 1948 Arab war against Israel: An aftershock of World War II?

By Matthias Kuntzel
Matthias Küntzel’s new book, Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East, explores the still under-analysed impact of Nazi... Read more > June 2023

A Modern History of Palestinian Rejectionism

By Ben-Dror Yemini
Ben-Dror Yemini argues that media, academia, and the Israeli and global left have committed a huge deception in... Read more > May 2023

Iran’s drone diplomacy is a danger to the West

By Alex Grinberg
Alex Grinberg is an expert on Iran based at the Jerusalem Institute for Security and Strategy. He warns... Read more > April 2023

‘A gamechanger in Israel’s relationship with Egypt and cooperation with the EU’: The geopolitics of Israel’s natural gas fields

By Calev Ben-Dor
Israel has discovered enough natural gas to become a regional energy exporter. As Europe wrestles with its energy... Read more > February 2023