--- title: Firas Maksad | TIME description: Firas Maksad is Managing Director, Middle East & North Africa at Eurasia Group and Associate Fellow at the Middle East Institute. canonical: https://time.com/author/firas-maksad/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/firas-maksad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Firas Maksad ## Firas Maksad Firas Maksad is Managing Director, Middle East & North Africa at Eurasia Group and Associate Fellow at the Middle East Institute. ## Firas Maksad *  Sep 25, 2025 ### [The Saudis Are Sending Trump a Warning](https://time.com/7320057/saudi-pakistan-pact-trump-us/) The Saudi-Pakistan pact is a hedge against inadequate U.S. security guarantees and Israeli overreach... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 26, 2024 ### [Will a Hezbollah-Israel Ceasefire Last?](https://time.com/7198619/lebanon-hezbollah-israel-ceasefire-what-next/) Questions remain over whether a truce can bring lasting stability to the volatile Lebanon-Israel bor... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 24, 2024 ### [Hezbollah and Israel Stare Into the Abyss](https://time.com/7023965/lebanon-hezbollah-israel-gaza/) A barrage of Israeli strikes since Monday has killed at least 558 people in Lebanon, and raised fear... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 22, 2024 ### [The Coming Israel-Hezbollah War](https://time.com/6990650/coming-israel-hezbollah-war/) The Biden Administration must work to avert what would be an all-out conflict, or limit its worst ou... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/firas-maksad/","name":"Firas Maksad"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/firas-maksad/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/firas-maksad/"},"name":"Firas Maksad","jobTitle":"Contributor","description":"Firas Maksad is Managing Director, Middle East & North Africa at Eurasia Group and Associate Fellow at the Middle East Institute.","url":"https://time.com/author/firas-maksad/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```