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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.

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Global Justice, War & Security

The Beirut That Was

The explosion was only the latest tragedy in the city’s long decline.

Helena Cobban

Forum Response

Something from Nothing — Forum Response

Rosen neglects a key factor in U.S. planning: domestic politics.

Helena Cobban

Global Justice, Politics

Peace Out

The decline of Israel’s progressive movement.

Helena Cobban

Global Justice, Politics

Breakout

Hamas and the end of the two-state solution.

Helena Cobban

Global Justice, Politics

The 33-Day War

Hizbullah's victory, Israel's choice.

Helena Cobban

Global Justice, Politics

Hamas’s Next Steps

Finding the road to Palestine.

Helena Cobban

Forum Response

Exit Strategy — Forum Response

Underestimating Iran's role is a mistake.

Helena Cobban

Arts in Society, Global Justice

Hizbullah’s New Face

In search of a Muslim democracy.

Helena Cobban

World

Healing Rwanda

The man at the witness table wears a gray suit, a too-blue shirt, a checkered brown-and-yellow tie

Helena Cobban

Global Justice, Politics

Healing Rwanda

Can an international court deliver justice?

Helena Cobban

War & Security

Waiting for War in Damascus

Syria has been opening up. A war will shut it down.

Helena Cobban

Global Justice, Politics

Justice or Therapy?

Deabtes on how to heal from the Rwandan genocide. 

Kenneth Roth, Alison DesForges, Helena Cobban

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