Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict ResolutionOne Year After October 7: Assessments and Implications
Oct 8, 2024Learn MoreExperts analyze various aspects of the past year of Israel’s war on Gaza and now its campaign against Hezbollah and Lebanon.
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyOne Year after October 7: How have US and EU Foreign Policies Evolved?
Oct 10, 2024 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM ETLearn MoreAbout the WebinarAs the war on Gaza enters its second year, Arab Center Washington DC (ACW) and Centre Arabe de Recherche et d’études Politiques de Paris (CARE…
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Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict ResolutionA Year That Has Brought Us to the Breaking Point
Oct 7, 2024Yousef MunayyerLearn MoreAlongside the mass graves and beneath the tons of rubble, there may lie another victim: the very possibility of a jointly imagined coexistence.
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Washington Policy Weekly: Iranian Attack on Israel Elicits Strong US Backing
Oct 7, 2024Ethan Mayer-RichIran’s October 1 missile attack on Israel drew sharp criticism from Biden administration officials. White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan called …
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A Year That Has Brought Us to the Breaking Point
Oct 7, 2024Yousef MunayyerAlongside the mass graves and beneath the tons of rubble, there may lie another victim: the very possibility of a jointly imagined coexistence.
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Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict ResolutionChaos Is Spreading Because Washington Has Learned Nothing
Oct 3, 2024Dana El KurdThe war in Gaza is only the beginning of mass violence that is likely to increase and spread in Israel and the Palestinian territories and across the region.Th…
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Palestine/IsraelUS Domestic Politics and ElectionsThe 2024 Elections amid the Gaza War: The Future of US Democracy, Foreign Policy, and Global Standing
Sep 26, 2024The 9th Annual Conference is dedicated to discussing the 2024 US presidential elections and the impact of the results on US foreign policy in MENA and US globa…
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Security and DefenseMilitary Expenditure in MENA: Implications for Human Rights, Governance, and Socio-Economic Development
Aug 28, 2024 10:00 AM - 11:30 am ETExperts discuss drivers of military spending and its implications for transparency, socio-economic development, political power of the military, and the right …
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LebanonConflicts and Conflict ResolutionAfter Assassinating Nasrallah, Will Israel Escalate Further?
Sep 30, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy StudiesOn the evening of 27 September, Israel launched one of its biggest attacks on Lebanon since it stepped up operations on its northern front. The assault targete…
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AlgeriaDemocracy and GovernanceUnderstanding Algeria’s Presidential Election
Sep 16, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy StudiesOn 7 September, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune was re-elected for a second five-year term. The initial results showed that he won with more than 94 pe…
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YemenConflicts and Conflict ResolutionA Fragile but Enduring Truce in Yemen
Aug 27, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy StudiesOn April 1, 2022, the UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, announced a two-month truce between the country’s warring parties. This truce was extended twi…
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LebanonConflicts and Conflict ResolutionThe War Israel Wants but Hezbollah Rejects
Sep 20, 2024Imad K. HarbThe Israeli war on Hezbollah has just entered another deadly phase characterized by the sophisticated, but criminally minded, use of cyber warfare to detonate …
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyGaza, the American Elections, and the Fallout of a Disaster
Sep 19, 2024Charles W. DunneThe United States, sometimes considered the adult in the room when arbitrating international conflicts, has proved to be more of an adolescent when it came to …
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IranDemocracy and GovernanceIran’s New President and Foreign Minister Stand on the Edge of a Precipice
Aug 30, 2024Daniel BrumbergCommenting on Hezbollah’s retaliation to Israel’s August 25 pre-emptive strike on its positions, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani asserted tha…
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IraqViolent ExtremismThe Islamic State Is Trying to Rebound
Aug 29, 2024Gregory AftandilianTaking advantage of the world’s attention to the Israel-Hamas and Israel-Hezbollah conflicts, the so-called Islamic State (IS) is trying to reconstitute itself…
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EgyptConflicts and Conflict ResolutionThe Limits on Egypt’s Gaza “Containment Strategy”
Jul 1, 2024Daniel BrumbergEgypt has opted to follow a containment strategy in order to manage the fallout from the Israeli war on Gaza, such as the spillover of the conflict into the Si…
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LibyaDemocracy and GovernanceLibya: Despite Talks on a Unified Government, Impasse Remains
Mar 27, 2024Gregory AftandilianTalks last month in Cairo between representatives of Libya’s two rival governments raised hopes over progress in resolving the country’s 10-year political impa…
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SudanConflicts and Conflict ResolutionIn Sudan, Where Is the International Community’s Responsibility to Protect?
Aug 29, 2023Imad K. HarbIt has been more than four months since clashes erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Ra…
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North AfricaSecurity and DefenseThe Fate of the Wagner Group in Syria, Libya, and Sudan
Jul 18, 2023Gregory AftandilianThe failed mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin has put the fate of his Wagner Group doubt, not only in Ukraine but in several Arab states as well.
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