Michael Young ✓

@BeirutCalling · Beirut · joined 21 Jan 2011

Senior editor, Carnegie Middle East Center. Author of The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon's Life Struggle (Simon & Schuster 2010).

29 562Followers

2 397Following

24 007Posts total

58.1KViews on collected posts

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Michael Young ✓@BeirutCalling15 Sep

Israeli elections are approaching. What Nathan J. Brown sees is that, whoever wins, he is unlikely to change Israel's security doctrine—based on forward positions, prevention of threatening capabilities, and an overriding Israeli freedom of military action, at Diwan: 1.4K views · 6 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Michael Young ✓@BeirutCalling15 Sep

This is the second time the Saudis see that their security relationship with the U.S. provides no real protection—the first time being when Washington did nothing after the attack against the Armco facility in Abqaiq-Khurais in 2019. This will only consolidate a Saudi sense that 2.4K views · 28 likes · 13 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Michael Young ✓@BeirutCalling14 Sep

Hadn't seen this. Hegseth is a spring of foolishness that just keeps giving. Amusing to see that my MA alma mater is one of the banned institutions--a place a friend of mine once bitingly described as a vocational school for government employment: https://t.co/2sFHDbWZvv 1.2K views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Michael Young ✓@BeirutCalling14 Sep

Chinese president Xi Jinping was recently in Egypt, and @AngieOmar10 discusses one of the matters at the center of bilateral contacts, namely AI. She argues the Egyptians are playing the Chinese and Americans off to advance their own interests, at Diwan: https://t.co/RE45K0iIly 1.1K views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Michael Young ✓@BeirutCalling9 Sep

@BeirutCalling @RittaS this is utter BS.. Hezbollah handed over all the facilities south of the Litani to the Lebanese Armed Forces & what was the result? an israeli occupation with a new area called the Yellow Zone. Mansouri was handed over to Lebanese Armed Forces, and now the 356 views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Michael Young ✓@BeirutCalling8 Sep

@BeirutCalling @RittaS Keep peddling the narrative of a falling empire. You’re nothing and no one. Just a critic w an opinion hoping for some attention. You’re on the side of g*nocide and u know it. 239 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Michael Young ✓@BeirutCalling12 Jan

In 1984, I shot a militiaman. Story at the Lebanese Without Frontiers substack, to which I highly recommend you subscribe. It's full of fascinating material aimed at creating a collective Lebanese memory through personal recollection (and it's free): https://t.co/QKonRVZXQ1 https

51.3K views · 105 likes · 18 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Face aux comptes de taille comparable

6 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 10K–100K abonnés. portée ordinaire pour sa taille, réaction plus faible que la moyenne.

Vues médianes1 198ce compte924médiane pour 10K–100K

Portée, %4.05%ce compte3.62%médiane pour 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.07%ce compte1.52%médiane pour 10K–100K

Indicateur	Ce compte	Médiane pour 10K–100K	Rapport
Vues médianes par post	1 198	924	1.30×
Portée (vues ÷ abonnés)	4.05%	3.62%	1.12×
Taux d'engagement	1.07%	1.52%	0.70×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

51.3K12 Jan

2398 Sep

3569 Sep

1.1K14 Sep

1.2K

2.4K15 Sep

1.4K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.25%12 Jan

1.26%8 Sep

2.81%9 Sep

0.26%14 Sep

0.72%

1.82%15 Sep

0.88%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes51.0%159 in total

Reposts13.1%41 in total

Replies2.9%9 in total

Bookmarks33.0%103 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

13 Sep

Daily snapshots since 13 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.