• Collective Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Another Half-Baked Trump Gaza Plan

    On September 29, the White House announced a new 20-point plan for ending the Israeli war on Gaza that includes, among other things, provisions for an immediat…

  • Policy Analysis
    QatarThe War on Gaza

    Israel’s Attack on Qatar and the End of Diplomacy

    Sep 30, 2025Nabeel A. Khoury

    On September 9, 2025, Israel attacked a Hamas delegation in Doha, Qatar, as it was meeting to discuss the latest US-brokered ceasefire proposal to halt the war…

  • Policy Analysis
    SyriaGlobal Health and Health Policy

    From Syria to Sudan: How Captagon Fuels Instability

    Syria’s former Assad regime was the primary producer and chief beneficiary of the Captagon drug trade. Although the new Syrian government led by interim presid…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Gaza’s Medical Crisis and the US Visa Freeze

    Sep 25, 2025Yara M. Asi

    On July 7, 2024, an Israeli bombing in Khan Younis, Gaza, killed the parents, brother, and sister of a three-year-old Palestinian boy named Adam. While Adam’s …

  • Policy Analysis
    LebanonEnergy and Economics

    Can Lebanon Be a Hub for Syria’s Reconstruction?

    Sep 24, 2025Patricia Karam

    Nearly a year after the end of Syria’s civil war and the fall of the Assad dictatorship, the country has embarked on a long and complex reconstruction process.…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Recognizing a Palestinian State as Gaza Still Burns

    During the eightieth meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, a number of countries—Andora, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Malta, San M…

  • Policy Analysis
    QatarThe War on Gaza

    Striking a US Ally: Israel’s Attack on Qatar and the Erosion of Regional Stability

    On the morning of September 9, 2025, 15 Israeli jets carried out an airstrike on residential buildings in Doha, Qatar. Israel claimed that the strike was a pre…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    The GREAT Trust for Gaza: A Blueprint for Dispossession, Not Reconstruction

    The Trump administration is currently discussing the so-called Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust plan that projects a…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    Trump’s Support for Netanyahu: A Political Liability?

    Despite occasional irritations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump has made unconditional US backing of the Israeli leader a…

  • Policy Analysis
    LebanonSecurity and Defense

    Disarming Hezbollah: Lebanon at a Crossroads

    Aug 20, 2025Patricia Karam

    The only viable route to lasting stability, economic recovery, and sovereignty is to restore the Lebanese state's constitutional monopoly over arms through a t…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    The Growing Consensus over Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

    Aug 19, 2025Yara M. Asi

    Just one week after October 7, 2023, more than 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies, and genocide studies signed a public stat…

  • Research Paper
    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The New York Declaration on the Two-State Solution: More Empty Promises?

    Aug 15, 2025Susan M. Akram

    The New York Declaration on the “Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution” is the outcome document of …

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