Biography
Publications
Lauren Williams is a journalist and Middle East analyst formerly based in Syria, Lebanon and Turkey. She’s now based in Sydney.
Sparks fly in Lebanon
Recent protests and wildfires are both symptoms of chronic mismanagement, corruption, and dysfunction.
Idlib: Catastrophe averted
As long as Turkey controls a viable anti-Assad force, it has leverage to dictate any Idlib settlement.
Erdogan leaves Trump empty-handed
Erdogan was forced to concede on almost everything, even withstanding Trump’s repeated mispronunciation of his name during the press conference.
Turkey's democracy was already dead
Turkey’s democracy didn’t die on Sunday; it was already dead. Now the country must live with a democratically-elected dictator.
Plenty of ghosts at the table in Astana
The talks are being moderated by Syrian government ally Russia, in the capital city of a former Soviet republic, without US involvement, at a time when military conditions on the…
Merkel pays the price for a bold stance on refugees
Merkel has vowed to deport many new arrivals and a bill to open deportation camps has just been passed.
Retaking Mosul will be hard, but Raqqa will be harder
Raqqa is going nowhere and we ignore it at our peril.
