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Policy Analysis
TunisiaDemocracy and Governance
Post-Election Blues in Tunisia: Implications at Home and Abroad
Feb 10, 2020Daniel Brumberg
The fate of Tunisia’s democracy may depend on the leadership of President Saied who, until 2019, neither played a political role nor had links to the existing …
Book Review
EgyptUS Foreign Policy
Bunker Diplomacy by Nabeel Khoury
Feb 10, 2020Imad K. Harb
In his review of Nabeel Khoury’s book, Bunker Diplomacy: An Arab-American in the U.S. Foreign Service, Imad K. Harb highlights the author’s frankness about sen…
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QatarThe GCC
Actors, Structures and Qatari Foreign Policy
Feb 10, 2020Marwan Kabalan
In a research paper on Qatar’s foreign policy, Marwan Kabalan concludes that a small state’s geopolitical factors and relative capabilities remain central in a…
Washington Policy Weekly
IranUS Foreign Policy
What is Congress Willing to Do to Avoid War with Iran?
Feb 6, 2020Marcus Montgomery
This week, the House of Representatives took further decisive steps to try and prevent President Donald Trump from embroiling the United States in another war …
Press Releases
Liquidating the Palestinian Question: A Historical Perspective of the Trump-Netanyahu Deal
Feb 6, 2020
The Doha-based Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) held a talk on February 3 where Center General Director Azmi Bishara discussed “The Trump-Ne…
Event Video
SyriaInternational Law
Accountability in Syria: Achieving Transitional Justice in a Postconflict Society
Feb 5, 2020Radwan Ziadeh
On February 5, 2020, Arab Center Washington DC held a panel discussion on the challenges of achieving transitional justice in Syria. Panelists included Mai El-…
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
“Deal of the Century”: What Is It and Why Now?
Feb 4, 2020Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS)
While the circumstances may seem favorable in the United States and Israel for the implementation of Trump’s so-called peace plan, it is unlikely to win popula…
Policy Analysis
YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Yemen: Order of Battle Trumps Peace
Feb 3, 2020Nabeel A. Khoury
Military clashes in Yemen will not advance the interests of the warring parties, cautions Nabeel Khoury, who sees that victory there is only pyrrhic amid the d…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelUS Domestic Politics and Elections
The American Jewish Community and the 2020 US Presidential Election
Jan 31, 2020Lara Friedman
The American Jewish community, for all its internal divisions and distinctions, has nonetheless long been characterized by remarkably consistent, and by all ap…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
The Five Most Dangerous Aspects of Trump’s “Peace Plan”
Jan 30, 2020Tamara Kharroub
Trump's supremacist plan redraws borders unilaterally, accepts war crimes as serious solutions, and presents nothing but repackaged Israeli apartheid.
Op-Eds
Tamara Kharroub: Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is nothing but repackaged Israeli apartheid
Jan 30, 2020Tamara Kharroub
Trump's supremacist plan redraws borders unilaterally, accepts war crimes as serious solutions, and presents nothing but repackaged Israeli apartheid.Read more
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
Steal of the Century: Two Double-Dealers and a Podium
Jan 29, 2020Yousef Munayyer
Trump and Netanyahu are a pair of crooks robbing Palestinians of their freedom and dignity. He urges Palestinian leaders to fundamentally recalculate their str…