From Our Affiliates

From our Affiliates
The Protest Movement in Syria: Has A Consensus Begun to Emerge?
Sep 5, 2023Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
As the Syrian economy continues to deteriorate and the regime takes measures to lift subsidies on fuel and other basic goods and move forward with its economic…
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The Sudanese Crisis: On the Field, Foreign Influences, and Projections
Aug 14, 2023Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
Four months on from the outbreak of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Sudan is stuck in stalemate. The crisi…
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Lebanon’s Presidential Crisis: Causes and Likely Outcomes
Jul 20, 2023Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
On 17 July 2023, Doha hosted the second meeting of the Five nation group on Lebanon with representatives from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France and the US, se…
Policy Analysis
Israel’s Practices and Its “Respect” for Jordan’s Role in Jerusalem: A Legal Study
Jun 27, 2023Anis Fawzi Kassim
Many observers have objected to the Abraham Accords that were signed between Israel and various Arab states, each for their own reasons. I myself staunchly opp…
Policy Analysis
The US and the Sudan Conflict: Motives and Ability to Influence Events
Jun 27, 2023Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
The United States and Saudi Arabia announced on June 17, 2023 that both sides to the conflict in Sudan—the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support For…
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The Turkish Electoral Map after the First Round
May 22, 2023Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
TheTurkish presidential and parliamentary elections recorded an unprecedented voter turnout. Despite the ruling coalition, led by the Justice and Development P…
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Negotiations between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis to End the War in Yemen
Apr 30, 2023Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
The Houthis have been conducting negotiations with a Saudi delegation headed by the Saudi ambassador to the internationally recognized Yemeni government, Moham…
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China Brokered Iran Saudi Agreement: Motives and Prospects
Mar 16, 2023Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
Following secret five-day negotiations in Beijing between the two countries’ national security advisors, Saudi Arabia and Iran have reached an agreement to res…
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Azmi Bishara Gives the Opening Keynote of the Social Sciences and Humanities Conference
Mar 13, 2023
Bishara began his lecture by discussing the concept of “political culture” within the civic culture project of Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, where it is def…
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What’s Next for Tunisia as Opposition to Saied Grows?
Feb 12, 2023Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies
Tunisia’s anti-government protest movements have expanded in recent weeks as the country’s cost-of-living crisis deepens and opposition to President Kais Saied…
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Women’s Rights and the Palestinian Authority
Feb 1, 2023Ayah Randall
The Palestinian Authority is using women's rights to secure political gains, as its main priority has been to use the international diplomatic process to convi…
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The Tunisian Parliamentary Elections: Adding Fuel to the Fire?
Dec 22, 2022Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
On 17 December 2022, the first parliamentary elections were held in Tunisia since President Kais Saied’s 2021 power grab seeking to overturn the 2014 constitut…
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Where Dance Fights with the Devil
Dec 5, 2022Mohammad Hossein Badamchi
Iran is currently experiencing one of the largest anti-government protests since 2009. The protests were ignited by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old wom…
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Israeli Knesset Elections: The Rise of the Religious Right
Nov 8, 2022Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
For the fifth time in four years, Israeli voters headed to the polls on 1 November 2022, for the twenty-fifth Knesset election since the founding of Israel. Ba…
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US-Saudi Relations in Turmoil after the OPEC+ Decision to Reduce Oil Production
Nov 2, 2022Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
The OPEC+ decision to reduce oil production by 2 million barrels daily, starting from November 2022, ignited tensions between long-standing allies, the US and …
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Türkiye and the Debate on Neutrality in the Ukraine War
Oct 17, 2022Emad Y. Kaddorah
Turkish policy on the Ukraine war has been held under scrutiny from the outset. Western media has accused Ankara of pursuing a policy of neutrality rather than…
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“Women, Life, Freedom”: Protesting the Islamic Republic
Oct 4, 2022Mehran Kamrava
The killing in Iran of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, at the hands of the so-called Morality Police (Gasht-e Ershad), has engulfed the country in nationwide…
Book Review
Understanding Revolutions – Opening Acts in Tunisia by Azmi Bishara
Sep 21, 2022Mouldi Lahmar
The first decade since the onset "Arab Spring" has occasioned tens of thousands of articles, books and studies; thousands of academic seminars and conferences;…
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The Turkish Rapprochement with the Syrian regime: Motives and Prospects
Sep 18, 2022Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
Statements from Turkish officials have indicated increasing steps towards rapprochement with the Syrian regime. At a meeting of Turkish ambassadors in Ankara o…
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An Assassination Attempt Revives an Old Discussion
Sep 13, 2022Azmi Bishara
The assassination attempt on novelist Salman Rushdie as he lectured at the Chautauqua Institution on Friday, August 12, 2022 in Chautauqua, New York, has reson…

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