• Policy Analysis
    TurkeyThe War on Gaza

    Beyond Gaza: The Strategic Fault Lines in Turkey–Israel Relations

    Oct 2, 2025Salim Çevik

    Turkey–Israel relations have entered one of their most tense periods in years, triggered by a series of regional developments that have transformed the two cou…

  • From our Affiliates
    The Arabian Peninsula and The GulfSecurity and Defense

    Gulf Security After the Israeli Strike on Doha: Waning US Guarantees and Expanding Options

    Oct 2, 2025The Unit for Political Studies

    On September 17, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visited Riyadh and announced a defense agreement with Saudi Arabia. The announcement of the Saudi–Paki…

  • From our Affiliates
    QatarThe War on Gaza

    Doha Wasn’t a One‑Off: What Israel’s 9 September Strike Signals?

    Oct 2, 2025Muhanad Seloom

    ​​​On 9 September 2025, Israel launched an airstrike in Doha targeting Hamas’s senior political leadership. The strike killed five Hamas-affiliated figures and…

  • Viewpoint
    SyriaDemocracy and Governance

    The “New Syria” and Reconstruction under Regional Influences

    Oct 2, 2025Isabel Ruck

    On September 24, 2025, interim Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa addressed the 80th United Nations General Assembly—the first time a Syrian president has done s…

  • Collective Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Another Half-Baked Trump Gaza Plan

    Oct 1, 2025

    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…

  • 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…

  • Research Paper
    LevantEnergy and Economics

    Gas and Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Oct 1, 2025Jim Krane

    The resource base in the Eastern Mediterranean is of primary interest not because of the size of its reserves but because of its proximity to the EU market, an…

  • Expert Interview
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    The Trump/Netanyahu Plan for Gaza

    Sep 30, 2025

    Noura Erakat, Daniel Levy, and Yousef Munayyer respond to Trump's latest proposal to end the war on Gaza and discuss the implications of the plan for Palestini…

  • 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…

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    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Two State Solution Summit: Symbolic Recognition Under the Reality of Occupation

    Sep 28, 2025The Unit for Political Studies

    ​​​​​A high-level international conference on the two-state solution was resumed at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 23 September 2025. The summi…

  • 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 …