Regions

Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelDemocracy and Governance
Prospects for the Israeli Governing Coalition
Feb 9, 2022Yousef Munayyer
Yousef Munayyer evaluates the prospects of survival of Israel’s current governing coalition, whose partners have little in common except that they coalesced ar…
Policy Analysis
QatarUS Foreign Policy
Qatar’s New Designation as US Non-NATO Ally Serves Multiple Purposes
Feb 4, 2022Imad K. Harb
Less than five years after the eruption of the Gulf crisis of June 2017 that seriously threatened Qatar’s security, President Joe Biden designated the Gulf Ara…
Op-Eds
SyriaUS Foreign Policy
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,…
Policy Analysis
Saudi ArabiaRegional Relations and Geopolitics
After Parting Ways: The Coming Frosty Entente in Saudi-Turkish Relations
Feb 2, 2022Jana J. Jabbour
This is likely to be Turkey’s year of normalization with regional counterparts, as 2021 was one of diplomatic restoration for Turkish foreign policy. While in …
External Readings
Palestine/IsraelJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity
Feb 1, 2022Amnesty International
Amnesty reports that Palestinians are treated as an inferior racial group and systematically deprived of their rights. The investigation details how Israel enf…
Conferences
YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution
The Conflict in Yemen: Current Situation and Future Prospects
Feb 14-15, 2022 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET
An academic conference organized by the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies in partnership with Arab Center Washington DC and DeepRoot Consulting.
Event Video
Palestine/IsraelJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
Israel’s Continuing Policy of Palestinian Dispossession: From Sheikh Jarrah to Al-Naqab
Jan 27, 2022
Experts discuss the volatile situation in the Naqab in the context of Israel’s larger and ongoing policy of displacement and dispossession against Palestinians…
Policy Analysis
EgyptJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
Sisi’s Transnational Repression: Silencing Political Dissidents in Exile
Jan 26, 2022Khalil Al-Anani
On January 6, the FBI arrested Pierre Girgis, an Egyptian American, for spying on critics of Egypt’s president in the United States. According to the US Depart…
Policy Analysis
North AfricaDemocracy and Governance
The Islamists of Northwest Africa: Accommodation and Co-optation
Jan 26, 2022Amal Ghazal
Analyses of Islamists in Northwest Arica—from Mauritania to Libya—follow a common pattern of distinguishing militants among them from non-militants. In particu…
Expert Interview
UAEConflicts and Conflict Resolution
The Houthi Attacks on the UAE: Implications for Yemen and the Region
Jan 24, 2022
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen and Imad K. Harb discuss the recent Houthi attacks against the UAE and their implications for the Yemen war, the Arabian Peninsula, a…
Webinar
Palestine/IsraelJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
Israel’s Continuing Policy of Palestinian Dispossession: From Sheikh Jarrah to Al-Naqab
Jan 27, 2022 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET
Experts at this webinar discuss the volatile situation in the Naqab in the context of Israel’s larger and ongoing policy of displacement and dispossession agai…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
The Abbas-Gantz Encounter: Much Ado about Nothing in the Middle East
Jan 18, 2022Khalil E. Jahshan
On December 28, 2021, a surprising development took place in the Middle East: Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas held a rare meeting in Israel,…