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    LebanonIdentity Politics and Sectarianization

    Hezbollah’s Likely Demise and Lebanon’s Uncertain Future

    Dec 4, 2024Patricia Karam

    Israel's approval of a US-brokered ceasefire with Hezbollah set the stage for an end to fourteen months of fighting between the two parties, ushering in the po…

  • Policy Analysis
    LevantConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Motivations for Israel’s Unprecedented Destruction of Palestinian Lives

    Dec 2, 2024Daoud Kuttab

    For over a year, a systematic and unprecedented Israeli campaign of death, injury, and ruin of entire communities has been taking place in Gaza, and in recent …

  • Policy Analysis
    The Arabian Peninsula and The GulfRegional Relations and Geopolitics

    GCC States Seek Diplomacy During US Absence

    Nov 12, 2024Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

    The expansion and partial regionalization of what is already the longest and deadliest conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian arena since 1948 presents the Gulf A…

  • Policy Analysis
    LevantConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Intent to Destroy: Documenting a Year of Israel’s Attacks on Health in Gaza

    Nov 7, 2024Yara M. Asi

    After 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…

  • Policy Analysis
    LevantConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The New Occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories

    Oct 31, 2024Mohanad Mustafa

    Israel’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/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Important Conclusions from Israel’s Wars on Palestine and Lebanon

    Oct 25, 2024Imad K. Harb

    It 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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    IranConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    One Year After October 7: Israel Descends into Endless War

    Oct 11, 2024Daniel Brumberg

    Among 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 Resolution

    GCC Responses to Israeli Aggression on Lebanon: Strategic Concerns and Regional Implications

    Oct 9, 2024The Unit for Political Studies

    The 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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    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    One Year After October 7: Assessments and Implications

    Oct 8, 2024Imad K. Harb Khalil E. Jahshan Tamara Kharroub Annelle Sheline

    Experts analyze various aspects of the past year of Israel’s war on Gaza and now its campaign against Hezbollah and Lebanon.

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    YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    A Decade On, Assessing Shared Responsibility for Yemen’s Tragedy

    Oct 3, 2024Afrah Nasser

    On September 21, 2014, Yemen’s capital Sanaa awoke to an unexpected turn of events that would reshape the country’s destiny. The Houthi armed group, officially…

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    LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The War Israel Wants but Hezbollah Rejects

    Sep 20, 2024Imad K. Harb

    The 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/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Discrediting the Living and Denying the Dead in Gaza: Justifying Indiscriminate Attacks on Civilians

    Sep 12, 2024Yara M. Asi

    In 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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