Look who the New York Times rely on for analysis and "history" of the Middle East

Middle East historians and analysts say...“The old regional order has gone, the new regional order is being drawn in blood, and it is going to take a long time,” said Sarkis Naoum, a political analyst at Lebanon’s An Nahar newspaper."  Lebanese readers would really find this funny.  Sarkis Naoum, for potato's sake.