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A Survey of Lebanese Voters ahead of National Elections
May 1, 2022Charles Harb
Lebanon is gearing towards national parliamentary elections, scheduled for May 15, 2022. This is the first national election since the 2019 uprising and subseq…
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The Vienna Negotiations and the Elusive Return of the Iranian Nuclear Deal
May 1, 2022Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
Despite the passage of more than a year since the launch of the Vienna negotiations to revive the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly kno…
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Transfer of Power in Yemen to a Presidential Council: Political Context and Implications
Apr 25, 2022Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
Intra-Yemeni consultations ended with President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi announcing the formation of a presidential council, to which he will transfer his and Vic…
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The Negev Meeting: Did Israel Fail to Meet its Objectives?
Apr 4, 2022Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
The foreign ministers of Israel, the US, Egypt, Morocco, the UAE and Bahrain held a meeting at Sde Boker Kibbutz in the Negev on 27-28 March 2021. The Minister…
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Towards a new Middle East Cold War
Mar 28, 2022Marwan Bishara
Like the Ukrainians, the Palestinians are sacrificed on the altar of a new, albeit regional, Cold War, featuring Israel and the UAE camp on one side and the Ir…
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Why Would Hezbollah Never Integrate in the Lebanese Army?
Mar 23, 2022Imad K. Harb
Hezbollah’s militia cannot be absorbed into the LAF because of its confessional nature, its deeply religious, pan-Islamic ideology, its current outside involve…
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Where refugees become settlers
Mar 22, 2022Raef Zreik
For the Jewish refugees who have been arriving in Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport over the past several weeks, fleeing Putin’s war on Ukraine, any home not under R…
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How Will Fathi Bashagha’s New Government Impact Libya’s Roadmap to Democracy?
Mar 9, 2022Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
Fathi Bashagha was named as the head of a new government by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, following the earlier postponement of the De…
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Russia, Ukraine and NATO: Reflections on the Determination to Not Avoid the Road to War
Feb 27, 2022Azmi Bishara
With Vladimir Putin’s accession to the presidency of Russia on March 26, 2000, an energetic battle began to save Russia from becoming what he called a second-t…
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The world is united on Ukraine, divided on America
Feb 27, 2022Marwan Bishara
“In terms of a Cold War… you have the vast majority of the rest of the world in total opposition to what is doing… It’s going to be a cold day for Russia,” ob…
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Israel’s apartheid and the myth of the democratic Jewish state
Feb 8, 2022Marwan Bishara
Last week, the London-based Amnesty International joined the New York-based Human Rights Watch and the Jerusalem-based B’Tselem in calling Israel’s abusive and…
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For the sake of Palestine, we need to talk about the infighting eating away at pro-Palestine activism
Jan 24, 2022Dana El Kurd
Yet another obscene murder in the West Bank drew outrage from the usual circles, but was passed over by most as just "business as usual." Omar Abdulmajeed Asaa…
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Biden’s Foreign Policy Dilemmas
Jan 20, 2022Marwan Bishara
After a strong start that included rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement and World Health Organization, both of which Trump abandoned, President Joe Biden has …
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How the Battle for Shabwa is Likely to Affect the Trajectory of War in Yemen
Jan 19, 2022Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
In the first half of January 2022, the Shabwa Governorate in southern Yemen, played host to military developments that led to the restoration of the last three…
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Brief Report on the Population of Palestine at the End of 2021
Jan 3, 2022 Ola Awad
Fourteen Million Total Number of Palestinians in the WorldThe estimated number of Palestinians at the end of 2021 was about 14 million: 5.3 million in the Stat…
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Biden (and Putin)’s nostalgia for the Cold War
Dec 8, 2021Marwan Bishara
Over the past 10 years, American and European reactions to the Arab Spring have demonstrated why Western democracies cannot be trusted with the cause of democr…
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Why Iran may become a latent nuclear state
Nov 29, 2021Marwan Bishara
As the negotiations to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement resume in Vienna, it is a déjà vu all over again. The United States warns of crippling sanctions…
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Emirati Normalization with the Syrian Regime: Motives and Implications
Nov 16, 2021Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
On 9 November, the UAE Foreign Minister, Abdullah bin Zayed, paid a visit to Damascus, the first in ten years, during which he met the head of the Syrian regim…
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The Omnipresence of America and the Absence of American Studies
Nov 16, 2021Azmi Bishara
This article addresses the relative absence of American Studies, as a discipline, and in cultural and intellectual debates on America in the Arab world.
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Future of Political Transition in Post-Coup Sudan
Nov 9, 2021Arab Center For Research and Policy Studies
Nearly two weeks after the coup in which the military members of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council overthrew the civilian government that was formed under the p…

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