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Algeria’s Decision to Cut Diplomatic Relations with Morocco: Background and Repercussions
Sep 2, 2021Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
On 24 August 2021, Algeria announced that it was downgrading diplomatic relations with Morocco to consular ties only. This step comes in the context of increas…
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Biden-Bennett Summit: Resetting the US-Israel Relationship?
Aug 31, 2021Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
On 27 August 2021, US President Joe Biden held his first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House. In June, Bennett succeeding in…
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The Biden-Bennett summit: A US-Israeli reset?
Aug 25, 2021Marwan Bishara
This week’s US-Israeli summit will certainly be overshadowed by the Afghan fiasco. Less certain, however, is how US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minis…
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Conflict Trends in the Arab World, 1946-2019
Aug 17, 2021Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies
The Arab world has been long afflicted by multiple forms of armed conflict, a trend that has been increasing notably in the past decade. To reverse this trend …
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Repercussions of the Taliban’s Return to Rule Afghanistan
Aug 17, 2021Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
With the fall of the Afghan capital of Kabul on 15 August, the Taliban has returned to rule the country twenty years after being ousted by United States in Nov…
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Tunisia after 25 July: Prospects for a Country in Crisis
Aug 16, 2021Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
Three weeks after what many considered as a coup against the constitution, Tunisian President Kais Saied continues to enforce measures aimed at changing the na…
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The US, the Taliban and the stunning defeat in Afghanistan
Aug 16, 2021Marwan Bishara
Last week’s turn of events in Afghanistan has been utterly shocking but hardly surprising. The Taliban’s blistering takeover of the country’s main cities was b…
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Israeli Observer Status at the African Union: What Do They Gain?
Aug 5, 2021Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
Almost two weeks after Israel accepted an offer of observer status to the African Union, seven Arab countries, namely Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Mauritani…
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Tunisia’s Presidential Coup: Circumstances, Characteristics, and Potential Outcomes
Jul 30, 2021Unit for Political Studies
On Sunday, July 25, 2020, Tunisian President Qais Saied dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and promised to appoint a replacement, took over judicial auth…
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Israel’s Decision to Wage War on Gaza
May 27, 2021Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
On May 10, Israel launched its fourth war on Gaza, a territory it had blockaded since 2007. This study examines Israel’s decision-making that led to the war, t…
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The Palestinian Popular Revolt: Background, Causes, and Characteristics
May 21, 2021Arab Center For Research and Policy Studies
On both sides of the Green Line, Occupied Palestine is seeing a popular upsurge in its resistance movement. Beginning in mid-April, the Israeli occupation auth…
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The Feats, Fiats and Failures of American News Networks
Feb 10, 2021Marwan Bishara
The three main US news networks, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, have enjoyed a roller-coaster ride over the past five years, thanks to one man, Donald J Trump. His p…
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A New Interim Government Elected in Libya: Background and Prospects
Feb 8, 2021Unit for Political Studies
On February 5, the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) finished off the final round of a voting process that elected Mohamed al-Menfi as the head of a three…
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Tunisia’s Night Protests: Background and Repercussions
Jan 28, 2021Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS)
Tunisia is still vulnerable to more tension due to structural economic and social crises and the failure of political elites to agree on a national project tha…
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Al-Ula GCC Summit Ends the Blockade of Qatar
Jan 7, 2021ACRPS Unit for Political Studies
Three and a half years after the crisis that struck the core of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the 41st GCC summit, held on January 5, 2021 in the Saudi Arabian…
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Saudi Arabia: Time to face the music
Dec 9, 2020Marwan Bishara
Participants at a regional security conference in Manama over the weekend must have been surprised to see former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki Al-Faisa…
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Trump vs Biden: And the winner is…?
Oct 9, 2020Marwan Bishara
The coronavirus pandemic and the Trump presidency that preoccupied the United States and much of the world this year have finally met face to face over the wee…
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The End of the Saudi Era
Sep 22, 2020Marwan Bishara
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's power is on a decline and not even Israel can change that.
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Tunisia’s Mechichi Government: Context and Challenges
Sep 14, 2020
The political and institutional scene in Tunisia is entering a new stage that is expected to be dominated by conflicts and tensions
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The UAE and Israel: A Dangerous Liaison
Aug 31, 2020
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been so enamoured with Israel that even before formalising their new bilateral agreement, they had started normalising…

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