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'President Trump can't just manifest peace like a mantra'
Financial Express Lucknow
|January 25, 2026
Based in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, Kim Ghattas has been a keen observer of the Middle East.
Having grown up in the times of civil war in Lebanon, Ghattas is a member of the board of trustees of the American University in Beirut and serves on the board of directors of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism.The author of Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East (2020), which provides a deep insight into the roots of instability in the Middle East, and The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power (2013), Ghattas is watching the situation unfolding in the region with keen interest. A speaker at the just-concluded Jaipur Literature Festival, Ghattas talks with Faizal Khan about postwar Palestine, the chances of success of US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza and the protests in Iran. Edited excerpts:
How fragile is peace in the Middle East in the aftermath of the war in Gaza, with the second phase of US President Donald Trump's peace plan kicking off in January this year?
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