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Nicholas Noe
Director, The Foundation for Global Political Exchange
Nicholas Noe is a Senior Fellow at Refugees International. He is also director of the 501(c)3 Foundation for Global Political Exchange, established in 2008, as well as co-founder of the Beirut-based news translation service Mideastwire.com, established in 2005. From 2017 to 2021, he served as a Political Advisor at the Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.

During the presidential campaign in 2016, Noe was the Regional Organizing Director for Hillary Clinton in Michigan where he managed the Get Out The Vote (GOTV) operation for Wayne County and Dearborn. In 2020, he was selected as a Policy Fellow at the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute (EUI)

Mr. Noe’s Op-Eds on the region have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Foreign Policy Magazine, Asia Times, The National and The National Interest, among other publications. His most recent policy paper for Refugees International is titled: "Efforts to Localize Aid in Ukraine One Year On: Stuck in Neutral, Losing Time."

He is also the author of a 2009 policy paper for the New America and Century Foundations titled “Re-Imagining the Lebanon Track: Towards a New US Policy," the editor of the 2007 book "Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah," co-editor of the Heinrich Boell Foundation’s journal on the Middle East (Perspectives) from 2012-2015 and was a Visiting Fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations in 2014.

From 1999-2000, he worked for First Lady Hillary Clinton as an opposition researcher during her successful United States Senate campaign and then went on to serve in New York City government as a speechwriter for the Speaker of the New York City Council and as a policy advisor on technology.

Mr. Noe currently lives between Beirut, Lebanon, where he co-founded the Coop D'Etat Rooftop, and Tunis, Tunisia, where he co-founded Villa 78. He graduated Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University (1999) and later received his MPhil with honors from Cambridge University (International Relations, 2006), where he was elected a scholar of Selwyn College.
Selected Articles and Appearances by Nicholas Noe
Lebanon
 
 
European Council on Foreign Relations - On Lebanon's New Security Symbiosis/September, 2014
2011 New York Times Op-Ed: On the Collapse of Hariri's Government
2009 Century Foundation White Paper On A New US Approach To Lebanon
2008 New York Times Op-Ed: Supporting the Lebanese Armed Forces
2007 New York Times Op-Ed: A Better Way To Deal With Hezbollah
"A Headless State"/Newsweek, January 2016
"Lebanon: What next after GCC blacklisting of Hezbollah?"/Al-Jazeera, March 2016
"Weaponizing Global Finance: A new U.S. law targets suspicious accounts down to the micro-level"/Newsweek, February 2016
ANALYSIS: GCC listing Hezbollah as terrorist a ‘harsh blow’ for Lebanon/Middle East Eye, March 2016
"Hezbollah’s Death Valley: In a small enclave between Syria and Israel, Hezbollah is preparing for what it says will be its biggest war ever"/Foreign Policy, March 2016
Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah/Verso, 2007
"Why Israel and Hezbollah are heading for a new, devastating war in the Middle East"/The Independent, April 2017
CNN's Cal Perry on the Beirut Exchange Conference/CNN, January 2009
"The Next Israel-Hezbollah War Won’t Be an Accident"/Tablet Magazine, February 2018
"Craving" - On Nasarallah's Discourse/Tablet Magazine, July 2010
A Response to Andrew Exum's "Hizbollah at War: A Military Assessment "/January 2007
"The End of March 14?"/HuffPost, September 2009
"Breaking the cycle: A new American approach to Lebanon"/European University Institute, September, 2020
"The US seems to be miscalculating in Lebanon again as the Beirut government heads for a showdown with Hizbullah"/Guardian, May 2008
"Lebanese government collapse: a history of missed opportunities"/Guardian, January 2011
"The cedar retribution: On the Special Tribunal for Lebanon"/Foreign Policy, July 2010
"Nasrallah’s reasons: Hizbullah and the conflict in Lebanon"/Journal of Radical Philosophy, January 2008
"Re-Imagining the Lebanon Track: Towards a New US Policy"/Century Foundation, December 2008
"FACING UP TO FOREIGN INFLUENCE: HOW OUTSIDERS HELPED CREATE LEBANON’S CURRENT CRISIS"/War On The Rocks, December 2021
"Lebanon’s Looming Election Disaster"/Carnegie Endowment, February 2022
"Sea border talks between Israel and Lebanon on verge of imminent collapse"/Responsible Statecraft, April 2022
"THE GREAT SELL-OFF: HOW LEBANON’S BANKING SECTOR SOLD OFF THE COUNTRY’S FINANCIAL FUTURE TO FOREIGN INTERESTS"/Triangle Research, June 2022
Middle East
 
 
"Algeria: What Lies Ahead"/Newsweek, January 2016
"The Noe Doctrine"/Qifa Nabki, July 2011
"The Libya Effect"/Newsweek, April 2016
"Is Middle East News Biased?"/Peace News, September 2017
"The Dangers Of Divining Iranian Intentions, Without Iranians"/Huffington Post, November 2017
Syria
 
 
"Strange Bedfellows in Syria: Russian Intervention Could Constrain Iran and Hezbollah—and Help Israel"/Foreign Affairs, October 2015 (Subscriber only-accesible via Mideastwire Blog)
"When NGOs Call For Military Intervention in Syria: The Case of the International Crisis Group"/Huffington Post, September 2015
"The Battle For Southern Syria"/Huffington Post, February 2015
"In Syria, We Need to Bargain with the Devil"/New York Times, February 2012
"A Third Way on Syria Is Possible"/Huffington Post, May 2011
"The False, Perilous Choice Of A 'Limited' American Bombing Campaign In Syria"/Huffington Post, June 2016
"We can't stop the bloodshed in Syria without talking to Assad"/Guardian, February 2012
"Their policies were a disaster for the region, so now leading hawks are undermining Obama's rapprochement with Syria"/Guardian, September 2009
Tunisia
 
 
"It's Not Springtime in Tunisia Anymore"/Tablet, March 2015
"Another Middle Eastern State Could Collapse, and More Cash and Weapons Won’t Save It"/Tablet, September 2015
"The Problem With Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet"/Tablet, October 2015
"Why 60, 65 and 114 US-based experts are wrong in believing that more cash and weapons will help save Tunisia"/Mideastwire Blog, October 2015
"For the Sake of Tunisia, Don’t Escalate the Armed Conflict in Libya"/Huffington Post, March 2016
"Tunisia: Desperately Seeking Direction"/Newsweek, March 2016
"The Problem With Saving Tunisia"/Huffington Post, May 2016
"A few criticisms to consider regarding George Packer’s piece on Tunisia"/Mideastwire Blog, March 2016
Ukraine
 
United States
 
 
Fisk on Nicholas Noe in Michigan: "A Trump presidency could have been avoided if Clinton had only listened to American Arabs"/The Independent, January 2017
"Vaccine diplomacy—the best first move for the Biden administration to reset relationships"/EUIdeas, November 2020
"NEW REPORT: In Heavily Arab American Areas of Michigan, 68% Of Voters Backed Biden; 43,000+ Additional Voters Who Didn’t Turnout For Hillary Helped Put Biden Over The Top in Crucial Swing State"/Mideastwire Blog, November 2020
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