Latest Publications

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    One Year After October 7: Assessments and Implications

    Experts analyze various aspects of the past year of Israel’s war on Gaza and now its campaign against Hezbollah and Lebanon.

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly: Iranian Attack on Israel Elicits Strong US Backing

    Oct 7, 2024Ethan Mayer-Rich

    Iran’s October 1 missile attack on Israel drew sharp criticism from Biden administration officials. White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan called …

  • Op-Eds
    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    A Year That Has Brought Us to the Breaking Point

    Oct 7, 2024Yousef Munayyer

    Alongside the mass graves and beneath the tons of rubble, there may lie another victim: the very possibility of a jointly imagined coexistence.

  • Op-Eds
    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Chaos Is Spreading Because Washington Has Learned Nothing

    Oct 3, 2024Dana El Kurd

    The 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…

Webinars & Events

  • Conferences
    Palestine/IsraelUS Domestic Politics and Elections

    The 2024 Elections amid the Gaza War: The Future of US Democracy, Foreign Policy, and Global Standing

    Sep 26, 2024

    The 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…

  • Webinar
    Security and Defense

    Military Expenditure in MENA: Implications for Human Rights, Governance, and Socio-Economic Development

    Aug 28, 2024 10:00 AM - 11:30 am ET

    Experts discuss drivers of military spending and its implications for transparency, socio-economic development, political power of the military, and the right …

  • Webinar
    SudanConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Sudan’s Humanitarian Crisis and the War of Military Elites: Prospects for a Resolution

    Aug 15, 2024

    Experts discuss the war in Sudan and and the catastrophic humanitarian crisis the country is facing.

From our Affiliates

  • From our Affiliates
    LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    After Assassinating Nasrallah, Will Israel Escalate Further?

    Sep 30, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies

    On 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…

  • From our Affiliates
    AlgeriaDemocracy and Governance

    Understanding Algeria’s Presidential Election

    Sep 16, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies

    On 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…

  • From our Affiliates
    YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    A Fragile but Enduring Truce in Yemen 

    Aug 27, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies

    On 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…

  • Policy Analysis
    LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The War Israel Wants but Hezbollah Rejects

    Sep 20, 2024Imad K. Harb

    The Israeli war on Hezbollah has just entered another deadly phase characterized by the sophisticated, but criminally minded, use of cyber warfare to detonate …

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    Gaza, the American Elections, and the Fallout of a Disaster

    Sep 19, 2024Charles W. Dunne

    The 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 …

  • Policy Analysis
    IranDemocracy and Governance

    Iran’s New President and Foreign Minister Stand on the Edge of a Precipice

    Aug 30, 2024Daniel Brumberg

    Commenting on Hezbollah’s retaliation to Israel’s August 25 pre-emptive strike on its positions, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani asserted tha…

  • Policy Analysis
    IraqViolent Extremism

    The Islamic State Is Trying to Rebound

    Taking 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…

  • Policy Analysis
    EgyptConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The Limits on Egypt’s Gaza “Containment Strategy”

    Jul 1, 2024Daniel Brumberg

    Egypt 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…

  • Policy Analysis
    LibyaDemocracy and Governance

    Libya: Despite Talks on a Unified Government, Impasse Remains

    Talks 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…

  • Policy Analysis
    SudanConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    In Sudan, Where Is the International Community’s Responsibility to Protect?

    Aug 29, 2023Imad K. Harb

    It 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…

  • Policy Analysis
    North AfricaSecurity and Defense

    The Fate of the Wagner Group in Syria, Libya, and Sudan

    The 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.

Multimedia

  • Podcast
    LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The Middle East on the Precipice of Regional War

    Oct 3, 2024

    Experts discuss the expansion of the Gaza war into a regional war, the Israeli assault on Lebanon, and the Iranian missile strike on Israel.

  • Fresh Take
    LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Israel’s Vicious War on Lebanon: On-the-Ground Assessment

    Sep 27, 2024

    Imad K. Harb discusses the current situation in Lebanon as Israel wages a vicious war on the country.

  • Fresh Take
    LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Will Israel’s Attack on Lebanon Ignite the Middle East?

    Sep 19, 2024

    Khalil E. Jahshan discusses Israel’s cyberattacks on Hezbollah’s communications devices and Netanyahu's apparent desire to drag the Middle East to war.

Op-eds & External Readings

Affiliated Centers and Projects

ACW is affiliated with the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) and its network of research centers around the world. Headquartered in Doha, Qatar, ACRPS is one of the premier independent research institutes in the Arab region.