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The Arabian Peninsula and The GulfRegional Relations and GeopoliticsGCC States Seek Diplomacy During US Absence
Nov 12, 2024Kristian Coates UlrichsenThe expansion and partial regionalization of what is already the longest and deadliest conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian arena since 1948 presents the Gulf A…
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Palestine/IsraelGlobal Health and Health PolicyIntent to Destroy: Documenting a Year of Israel’s Attacks on Health in Gaza
Nov 7, 2024Yara M. AsiAfter a year of unfathomable images, videos, and testimonies from Gaza, the story of 19-year-old Shaban al-Dalou still managed to shock the world. On October 1…
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The Arab WorldUS Foreign PolicyA Second Trump Administration: Potential Policy Toward the Middle East
Nov 5, 2024Charles W. DunneThe November 5 presidential election is likely to have major implications for US foreign policy, as it pits a centrist and robust internationalist candidate (V…
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Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict ResolutionThe New Occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Oct 31, 2024Mohanad MustafaIsrael’s concept for the “day after” in Gaza is becoming clearer as its war on the Strip continues into its second year. In fact, the features of this plan beg…
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Palestine/IsraelUS Domestic Politics and ElectionsHarris and the Arab-American Vote: Election Day Approaches
Oct 31, 2024Ethan Mayer-RichThe continued peripheralization of Arab-American voices has made it clear that to Harris and her campaign, just as Palestinian lives may not matter as much as …
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Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict ResolutionImportant Conclusions from Israel’s Wars on Palestine and Lebanon
Oct 25, 2024Imad K. HarbIt is hard to overemphasize the importance of Israel’s killing of Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and Chairman of Hamas’s Political Bureau Yahya…
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyThe Israel/Palestine Stain on Biden’s Foreign Policy Legacy
Oct 23, 2024Gregory AftandilianEvery US president wants to leave office with a positive legacy. Some do so to draw attention away from a scandal; others hope that the history books will trea…
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Demystifying How the Hamas Leadership Works
Oct 18, 2024In light of the recent news of the death of Yahya Sinwar, Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Arab Center Washington DC is republishing this analytic piece by …
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Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict ResolutionMiddle East Realities That Require an Escape Route
Oct 17, 2024Rami G. KhouriThe past month may prove to be the most critical moment of geo-strategic transformation in the Middle East since the end of the Second World War—if not its mos…
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One Year After October 7: Israel Descends into Endless War
Oct 11, 2024Among the many moments described in the Washington Post’s recent article on the Biden administration’s failed efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, one stands…
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LebanonConflicts and Conflict ResolutionGCC Responses to Israeli Aggression on Lebanon: Strategic Concerns and Regional Implications
Oct 9, 2024The Unit for Political StudiesThe positions of the GCC countries toward Israel's war on Lebanon are appear divided. All share a deep concern about escalation and its potential impact on the…
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LebanonConflicts and Conflict ResolutionNasrallah’s Killing Prompts Serious Calculations
Sep 30, 2024Nabeel A. KhouryIsrael’s killing of Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah has shocked many in Lebanon and the region regardless of what they thought of the man and hi…
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The War Israel Wants but Hezbollah Rejects
Sep 20, 2024The 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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US University Campuses Will Stifle Students’ Protests Next Year
Sep 16, 2024The student protests and the encampment movement that exploded on campuses toward the end of the 2024 school year pitted students (and faculty) protesting the …
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Palestine/IsraelThe War on GazaDiscrediting the Living and Denying the Dead in Gaza: Justifying Indiscriminate Attacks on Civilians
Sep 12, 2024Yara M. AsiIn mid-August 2024, the world stood witness to one of the few personal tragedies from Gaza to make global headlines. Israeli airstrikes killed two 3-day-old tw…
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The Failure of Political Sectarianism in Lebanon
Sep 4, 2024As Lebanon finds itself on the precipice of a war with Israel, its political system suffers from complete stalemate and its economy exhibits clear signs of str…
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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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Palestinian Cultural Resistance in the Service of the National Project
Aug 27, 2024The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has significantly shaped the political, social, and cultural identity of the Palestinian people. Spanning over a century, this…
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TurkeyRegional Relations and GeopoliticsTurkey Is Not an Actor in the Gaza Conflict
Aug 21, 2024Salim ÇevikPrior to the Hamas attack on October 7, Turkey was in the process of political reconciliation with Israel. Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Turkey in 202…
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Palestine/IsraelViolent ExtremismSde Teiman and Beit Lid Events: A Reading into the Militiazation of the Israeli State
Aug 21, 2024Mohanad MustafaThe storming by right-wing groups of the Sde Teiman military camp in the Negev—a brutal detention center for residents of Gaza—and the Beit Lid barracks on the…
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Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza“A Cycle of Deprivation”: The Challenges of Getting Humanitarian Aid into Gaza
Aug 14, 2024Yara M. AsiOn March 7, exactly five months after Israel initiated a military campaign in the Gaza Strip that has been increasingly described as a genocide, President Joe …
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Palestine/IsraelInternational LawIsrael’s Use of White Phosphorus and the Inadequacy of International Law
Aug 7, 2024Karam BurjasOn October 16, 2023, Israel indiscriminately targeted civilians in Al-Duhayra, a town in Southern Lebanon, with a chemical agent that can burn skin to the bone…
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Palestine/IsraelDemocracy and GovernanceNo Good ‘Day After’ Under Current Palestinian Politics
Aug 7, 2024Dana El KurdSome 300 days into the Israeli war on Gaza, and following Israel’s shocking July 31 assassination of Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, a major figure in ceasefire negoti…
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Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict ResolutionHaniyeh’s Assassination: Fallout from Israel’s Latest Killing Spree
Aug 2, 2024Yousef MunayyerThe assassination is the clearest message that Israel is not interested in an actual deal and is using ceasefire negotiations to extend the war while it kills …
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Israel Has Opted for War on All Fronts
Jul 31, 2024Israel's assassination of Hamas’s Political Bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah military leader Fuad Shukr is an unwarranted escalation that could lead t…
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyNetanyahu’s Demagoguery Before Congress over the Gaza War
Jul 31, 2024Khalil E. JahshanIn his convoluted and divisive presentation, Netanyahu made an emotional attempt at rallying American support behind his puttering ten-month military campaign …
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Palestine/IsraelInternational LawThe ICJ Decision on Israel’s Occupation of the Palestinian Territories
Jul 26, 2024Jonathan KuttabOn Friday, July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its Advisory Opinion in the case brought before it on Israel’s occupation of the Pale…
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Erdoğan’s Renewed Push for Syria Reconciliation: Domestic Pressures and Regional Dynamics
Jul 25, 2024Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made his most explicit appeal yet to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Setting a high bar for the future of relations, E…
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Middle East Leaders Prefer Trump’s Victory
Jul 24, 2024Donald J. Trump’s candidacy seems to draw more interest and support from the Middle East than from other areas of the world, particularly from among the ruling…
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An Unwinnable Battle of Narratives in Lebanon Regarding War with Israel
Jul 19, 2024Hezbollah’s decision on war against Israel has attracted both support and objection from different political factions in Lebanon and helped lead to escalating …
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If Biden Drops Out, Where Do Democrats Go on Israel-Gaza War?
Jul 17, 2024Ethan Mayer-RichOn the heels of a disappointing presidential debate performance, much has been made of whether the Democratic Party will replace Joe Biden on the ticket this N…
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Palestine/IsraelSecurity and DefenseExplosive Remnants of War in Gaza: A Long-Term Threat to Palestinian Life
Jul 17, 2024Yara M. AsiBefore Israel’s current war on Gaza, the deadliest of the previous four Israeli assaults on the Strip occurred in 2014. Over 50 days, Israel killed at least 2,…
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Lebanon Needs Help in Dealing with Its Syrian Refugees
Jul 10, 2024The dangerous saber-rattling and bloody confrontations between Hezbollah and Israel have partly obscured serious domestic challenges facing Lebanon and the car…
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JordanRegional Relations and GeopoliticsThe Gaza War and Threats to Jordan’s Domestic and Regional Stability
Jul 9, 2024Curtis RyanJordanians of all walks of life have watched the relentless war in Gaza with deepening alarm. By latest count, at least 38,000 Palestinians have been killed, m…
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Palestine/IsraelEducation and DevelopmentThe US Academy and the Destruction of Gaza’s Education System
Jul 3, 2024Hanna AlshaikhAfter Columbia University students set up a pro-Palestinian encampment on April 17, similar ones formed on campuses not only in the United States but worldwide…
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The Limits on Egypt’s Gaza “Containment Strategy”
Jul 1, 2024Egypt 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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Palestine/IsraelJustice, Equality, and Human RightsIsrael’s War on Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank
Jun 21, 2024Jonathan KuttabSince October 7, 2023, much of the world’s attention has rightly been focused on the Gaza Strip, which had been largely forgotten for many years. The intensity…
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Palestine/IsraelViolent ExtremismMilitarization of Settler Groups Threatens to Open a West Bank Front
Jun 20, 2024Kellie KuenzleMobs of masked, weapon-wielding men descended upon the Palestinian villages of al-Mughayyir, Duma, Deir Dibwan, Beitin, and Aqraba throughout the month of Apri…
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyDesperately Seeking Support for Biden’s Plan on Gaza
Jun 18, 2024Khalil E. JahshanSecretary of State Antony J. Blinken just concluded another intensive diplomatic trip to the Middle East, his eighth to the region since the beginning of the G…
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Palestine/IsraelDemocracy and GovernanceNetanyahu’s Government after Gantz’s Resignation: Shaky Ground or Sticking Around?
Jun 13, 2024Yousef MunayyerBenny Gantz resigned from Israel’s war cabinet because of differences with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the conduct of the war on Gaza.
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LebanonConflicts and Conflict ResolutionIsrael’s Lost Deterrence and the Coming Conflict with Hezbollah
Jun 12, 2024Patricia KaramAs the two countries inch closer to all-out war, the coming months may be the most dangerous time in Lebanon’s history.
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Pro-Palestine Campus Encampments and Israel’s Targeting of American Students
Jun 7, 2024On at least 80 college and university campuses across the United States, students formed encampments demanding that their universities disclose their investmen…
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Isolating Gaza from the World: Humanitarian Implications of Israel’s Seizure of Rafah
Jun 6, 2024Prior to the fall of 2023, Rafah was a relatively unknown city in the already poorly understood Gaza Strip, especially to much of the world outside of the Midd…
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Violence Against Women in Lebanon: The Challenge of Legislative Action
Jun 6, 2024In March 2024, Lebanon’s “reform MPs,” a group of legislators who were elected in 2022 from outside the country’s traditional sectarian system, proposed a new …
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyBiden’s Warmed-over Ceasefire Proposal
Jun 6, 2024Khalil E. JahshanIn the midst of what the White House touted to supporters as a significant update of his administration’s diplomatic efforts regarding the eight-month-old unab…
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyBiden’s Gaza Announcement: What to Make of the Bizarre Spectacle
Jun 4, 2024Yousef MunayyerOn May 31, President Joe Biden announced what he described as a “comprehensive new proposal” offered by Israel for ending the war in Gaza that would be “a road…
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Palestine/IsraelInternational LawICC Cases Against Israel and Hamas: A Preliminary Assessment
May 24, 2024Susan Akram John QuigleyThe Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim A.A. Khan, announced on May 20 that his office had applied for arrest warrants against both Isr…
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Palestine/IsraelInternational LawThe ICJ Moves to Protect International Law from Israeli Transgressions
May 24, 2024Khalil E. JahshanThe International Court of Justice (ICJ) today issued its long-awaited decision regarding the situation in the Gaza Strip and the case advanced by South Africa…
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Saudi ArabiaConflicts and Conflict ResolutionDeterminants of Saudi Arabia’s Response to the Gaza War
May 22, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy StudiesFollowing Hamas’s “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” on October 7, Saudi Arabia publicly criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza and blamed it for escalating tensions, desp…
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Whitewashing Biden’s Policy on Gaza
May 21, 2024On May 13, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan addressed the media in the White House press room on current developments in the Middle East, focusing on th…
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Palestine/IsraelRegional Relations and GeopoliticsSeven Months of War on Gaza, Israel Is in International Distress
May 17, 2024Mtanes ShihadehThe Israeli government has described the war on Gaza since last October as an “existential war and a second war of independence.” Israel’s official and public …
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Congress’s Crackdown on Campus Protests and the Threat to Civil Liberties
May 15, 2024It has been a month since student protests started at Columbia University with the establishment of a protest encampment on April 17. In response, students aro…
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Saudi ArabiaUS Foreign PolicyThe Gaza Crisis Pushes Washington and Riyadh Closer
May 15, 2024Daniel BrumbergHamas’s May 6 acceptance of a hostage deal proposed by Egypt and Qatar was surely designed to induce the White House to pressure Israel to produce a counteroff…
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American Student Protest Movements, Then and Now
May 10, 2024Watching university students protest in the United States over the past three weeks begs the question of whether they will end American support for Israel’s ge…
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Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict ResolutionMiddle East Trajectories Emanating from the War on Gaza
May 2, 2024Nabeel A. KhouryIsrael’s still unfolding war on Gaza is finishing its seventh month with no let-up in sight. The Palestinian death toll from Israeli operations has surpassed 3…
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Local Elections Show Turkey’s Democratic Resilience
May 2, 2024Immediately after his re-election to a third term last May, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that his Justice and Development Party (AKP) was r…
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Although Limited, Arab Public Protests Against the War in Gaza Continue
Apr 30, 2024Seven months into Israel’s violence in Gaza—which has credibly been identified as an active genocide—the Middle East has teetered on the brink of chaos. Unders…
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The Arabian Peninsula and The GulfConflicts and Conflict ResolutionGulf Arab States Avoid Iran-Israel Tensions
Apr 25, 2024Kristian Coates UlrichsenYears of shadow conflict between Israel and Iran, which included targeted assassinations as well as cyberattacks, gave way in April to direct confrontation and…
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The Gaza War Still Can Decide the American Presidential Election
Apr 24, 2024Latest polls indicate that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are in a dead heat in the presidential race at this point in the campaign, whi…
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Palestine/IsraelInternational LawIs International Law Still Relevant after the Carnage in Gaza?
Apr 23, 2024Susan Akram John QuigleyAccording to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the death toll in Gaza by Israel’s onslaught has passed 34,000 Palestinians, …
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Palestine/IsraelMedia and TechnologyThe Dozen Ds That Drive Israel’s Propaganda
Apr 17, 2024Rami G. KhouriThe past six months of Israeli-Palestinian warfare have witnessed levels of military ferocity, human suffering, societal destruction, and mass political activi…
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Canada’s Symbolic Move on Arms to Israel
Apr 17, 2024On March 18, the Canadian House of Commons passed, by a vote of 204-117, a non-binding motion calling on the federal government to “cease the further authoriza…
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A Failed Iranian Performance and Its Repercussions
Apr 15, 2024Rare are the occasions when a purportedly capable country’s determined military response to attack turns out to be a mere theatrical performance. Such was the …
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Iran’s Resistance Strategy After Israel’s Damascus Attack
Apr 12, 2024Daniel Brumberg discusses whether Iran and Israel are on their way to a direct confrontation after the latter’s attack on the Iranian consulate’s annex in Dama…
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Hezbollah-Israel War Is Becoming Inevitable, and the United States May Not Prevent It
Apr 10, 2024Patricia Karam evaluates the possibility of a war between Hezbollah and Israel that would be a major escalation in the Middle East as the United States tries t…
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Once Again, Germany Is on the Wrong Side of History
Apr 9, 2024Since the onset of Israel's war on Gaza, Germany has emerged as one of its most steadfast allies, along with the United States. This alignment is not surprisin…
