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Reeling from dual crises, Syria needs more than just humanitarian aid
Mar 6, 2023Radwan Ziadeh
This month marks 12 years since the civil war began in my homeland, Syria. The war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions more. Then…
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There should be no more Middle East exception in US policy
Jan 18, 2023Dana El Kurd
Arab public opinion of the US is low because of its hypocrisy over the issue of democracy. It is time to change that.
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De-Normalizing Israeli Normalization at the World Cup
Dec 13, 2022Dana El Kurd
At the international soccer tournament, Qatari anti-normalization activists as well as ordinary spectators have put Palestinian solidarity in the spotlight.Thi…
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Rise of Israel’s Anti-Arab Party Jeopardizes Regional Normalization
Nov 23, 2022Dana El Kurd
The recent Israeli elections, which brought the far-right Religious Zionist Party further into the mainstream, have sparked concern among policymakers across t…
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Fighting Corruption in the Arab World Should Be a U.S. Priority
Nov 1, 2022Imad K. Harb
In June of 2021, the Biden administration announced that it would be establishing the fight against corruption as a core concept in US national security and a …
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Why Can’t AIPAC Defend Israel?
Aug 4, 2022Yousef Munayyer
When it comes to the lobby’s massive spending in Democratic primaries, Zionism has become the cause that dare not speak its name. The American Israel Public Af…
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Will Israel further normalize relations with its Arab neighbors?
Jul 11, 2022Dana El Kurd
As President Biden prepares to visit Saudi Arabia to meet with nine Arab leaders, Saudi, American and Israeli media have reported that talks of a broader norma…
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Why Egypt is not too big to fail
May 30, 2022Khalil Al-Anani
Egypt is going through a severe economic crisis amid a high level of external debt, which has soared past $145bn, although there are suspicions that the real f…
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On Watching Ukraine Through Palestinian Eyes
Mar 4, 2022Yousef Munayyer
Tanks rolling through city streets. Bombs dropping from fighter jets onto apartment buildings. Military checkpoints. Cities under siege. Families separated, fl…
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The ISIS leader killed in a U.S. special forces raid will be replaced. ISIS is reviving.
Feb 3, 2022Charles W. Dunne
President Joe Biden’s announcement Thursday that a U.S. special forces operation in Idlib province in northern Syria killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi,…
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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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Will the UAE succeed in Rehabilitating Assad
Nov 25, 2021Radwan Ziadeh
Politics, as it is said, is based on profit and loss, and profit and loss here is based on the interests of the people who are entrusted with the government to…
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Political symbolism in the coup against Hassoun
Nov 19, 2021Radwan Ziadeh
Perhaps the abolition of the position of the Mufti in Syria, which dates back to 1918, and the formation of what the Assad regime called the “Scholarly Jurispr…
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The Emirates in Assad’s Lap (in Arabic)
Nov 10, 2021Radwan Ziadeh
In the state of democratic institutions, three factors are always taken into consideration when making any decision related to internal and foreign policy. The…
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The Long Arm of Israeli Repression
Nov 5, 2021Yousef Munayyer
The recent designation of six leading Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organizations by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz—which has been dismiss…
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How Egypt and the UAE are exporting coups across the region
Nov 3, 2021Khalil Al-Anani
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Mohammed bin Zayed have been targeting democratic transitions in the Middle East and North Africa, worried that such calls for change …
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Israel escalates its attacks against defenders of Palestinian rights, wherever they may be
Oct 30, 2021Yousef Munayyer
The Israeli government slapped a “terrorism” designation on six Palestinian human rights groups that have worked closely with Western governments and internati…
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Powell’s legacy reflects the kinder face of US empire
Oct 25, 2021Khalil E. Jahshan
Despite his role in manufacturing a war on Iraq, Colin Powell leaves a complicated legacy worth pondering over at this critical period in US history.
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Despite recent loss, progressives in US Congress will continue to challenge Israel
Oct 6, 2021Imad K. Harb
Progressives in the US House of Representatives last month attempted to block $US 1bn in funds for Israel's Iron Dome missile system. But the chamber voted 420…
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What will the Taliban takeover mean for the Middle East?
Aug 19, 2021Joe Macaron
Over the past few days, many have drawn parallels between images of an Air America helicopter rescuing Vietnamese evacuees from the rooftop of a building in Sa…

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