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Climate Change and Environmental Injustice in MENA: Challenges and Pathways Forward
Mar 6, 2024 9:30 AM - 11:00 ETLearn MoreExperts discuss the regional impacts of climate change in the Middle East, the compounding challenges of ongoing conflict, humanitarian needs, environmental in…
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The War between Biden and Netanyahu
Mar 15, 2024Learn MoreKhalil E. Jahshan discusses President Biden's sharp criticism of Prime Minister Netanyahu and what it means for US policy in Gaza.
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An Insider’s View on US Weapons Sales to Israel
Mar 14, 2024Learn MoreJosh Paul and Yousef Munayyer discuss US weapons sales to Israel during the war on Gaza. Paul is the former Director of Congressional and Public Affairs at the…
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Mar 18, 2024Ethan Mayer-RichSenators Sanders, Van Hollen, and Merkley urged Biden to “enforce federal law by requiring” Israel “to stop restricting humanitarian aid access to Gaza or forf…
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Gaza and the Battle of Negations in the United States (and Beyond)
Mar 14, 2024Daniel BrumbergAt no point in the history of the Middle East has the Palestinian-Israeli conflict collided with US domestic politics in such a visceral way as today. As multi…
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Washington Policy Weekly: US Frustrations with Netanyahu Mount, But Not Enough to Deter Steadfast Support
Mar 11, 2024Ethan Mayer-RichAdministration officials more vocally expressed concerns with Israel’s war on Gaza than they have in recent weeks and months, indicating that the official US n…
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The ICJ Case on Israeli Occupation: A Report
Mar 4, 2024Jonathan KuttabOn February 19, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) began public hearings on the issue referred to it by the General Assembly of the United Nations, by vi…
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The UAE and the Red Sea Security Crisis
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Gaza and the Crime of Genocide: Legal and Political Dimensions of Accountability
Jan 18, 2024 10:00 AM - 11:30 am ETExperts discuss the crime of genocide and Israel's war on Gaza and shed light on legal definitions and avenues for accountability, as well as the political pro…
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Netanyahu’s Political Calculus and the Future of Israel’s Emergency Cabinet
Mar 3, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy StudiesNetanyahu, is in a position that enables him to disregard the emergency government and to take sole control over war strategy and decision-making and in drawin…
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Azmi Bishara’s Opening Keynote — Second Annual Palestine Forum
Feb 15, 2024On 10 February 2024, Azmi Bishara, General Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS), delivered the keynote lecture of the Second Ann…
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South Africa’s Case against Israel for Genocide in Gaza at the ICJ: Challenges and Prospects
Jan 22, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy StudiesNearly three months into Israeli’s relentless war on Gaza, which had, at that time, resulted in about 100,000 Palestinians martyred, wounded, or missing, on 29…
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Saudi Arabia May Be Taking Center Stage in Post-Gaza Peace
Feb 28, 2024Kristian Coates UlrichsenWith Israel’s war on Gaza in its fifth month amid ongoing international pressure for a ceasefire, Saudi Arabia has become the focus of much attention over what…
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Instead of Houthi Designation, the United States Should Embrace a Comprehensive Approach
Feb 28, 2024Afrah NasserOn January 17, the United States designated the Houthis in Yemen, also known as Ansar Allah, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) in response to t…
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The UAE and the Red Sea Security Crisis
Feb 27, 2024Giorgio Cafiero
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US Troops to Stay in Syria and Iraq but Perhaps Not for Long
Feb 22, 2024Gregory AftandilianIn recent weeks, there have been meetings in Washington and in Baghdad about the presence in Iraq and Syria of US troops, whose official mandate is to aid loca…
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Turkish-Gulf Relations in the Context of Regional Reconciliation
Feb 14, 2024Salim ÇevikSince 2021, Turkey has been resetting its policies in the Middle East and has started to reconcile with its rivals in the previous decade—Egypt, Israel, Saudi …
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The Unprecedented Internal Displacement in Gaza
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Important Considerations for the Middle East in 2024
Jan 10, 2024Yara M. Asi Daniel Brumberg Imad K. Harb Khalil E. Jahshan Tamara Kharroub Laurie King Dana El Kurd Yousef MunayyerThe October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent invasion of the Gaza Strip will play a major role in shaping what unfolds in the Middle East in 20…
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Egypt Muddles Through the Crisis in Gaza
Dec 6, 2023Imad K. HarbEgypt has considered the Gaza Strip to be a soft underbelly since it ruled it prior to 1967, but also after it regained control of the Sinai Peninsula from Isr…
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The US and the Sudan Conflict: Motives and Ability to Influence Events
Jun 27, 2023Arab Center for Research and Policy StudiesThe United States and Saudi Arabia announced on June 17, 2023 that both sides to the conflict in Sudan—the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support For…
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The Sudan Crisis: How Regional Actors’ Competing Interests Fuel the Conflict
May 11, 2023Khalil Al-AnaniThe outbreak of military clashes between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have resulted in the deaths of hundreds and t…
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West Bank’s settler violence problem is a second sign that Israel’s policy of ignoring Palestinians’ drive for a homeland isn’t a long-term solution
Nov 26, 2023Dana El KurdIsraeli settlers, empowered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, have increased their attacks on and harassment of Palestinian rural c…
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This Israel has no future in the Middle East
Nov 24, 2023Marwan BisharaIsrael’s deliberate, industrial-scale murder of the Palestinian people under the pretext of “self-defence” won’t enhance its security or secure its future. Rat…
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Israel’s Central Bank Governor Tries to Assure International Markets
Nov 21, 2023Barhoum JaraisiLast October, at a conference of the International Monetary Fund in the United States, the Governor of the Central Bank of Israel Amir Yaron sought to reassure…