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    YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Yemen’s Houthi Movement Reconsidered

    Jun 12, 2025Nabeel A. Khoury

    In January 2019, this author posed the question, “can one make peace with the Houthis of Yemen?” In the six years since, the Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah…

  • Op-Eds
    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    What needs to change for Palestine

    Jun 9, 2025Dana El Kurd

    The violence in Gaza—credibly identified as genocide by scholars and legal experts alike—has now unfolded for over 600 days. This warfare against Palestinians …

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Israel’s False Paramedics Story Exemplifies Its Information War Against Palestinians

    May 1, 2025Yara M. Asi

    Over the past 18 months, a seemingly unending stream of horrific stories has emerged from Gaza, publicized across social media and in humanitarian reports.Thes…

  • Viewpoint
    LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Legacies of Lebanon’s 1975-1990 Civil War

    Apr 25, 2025Imad K. Harb

    On April 13, 2025, the Lebanese, to the day, commemorated the 50th anniversary of the start of Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war that, with hindsight, can be seen …

  • Viewpoint
    LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The Lebanese Civil War in Iran’s Narrative of Resistance

    Apr 25, 2025Assal Rad

    As Lebanon marks 50 years since the start of its devastating civil war of 1975-1990, it finds itself at another inflection point. Israel occupies parts of sout…

  • Viewpoint
    LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Syria’s Role in the Lebanese Civil War of 1975–1990

    Apr 25, 2025Marwan Kabalan

    On April 14, 2025, a day after the Lebanese people were commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1975-1990 civil war, the new prime minister, Nawaf Salam, was…

  • Policy Analysis
    SudanConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Is Sudan Approaching a Resolution of Its Two-Year Crisis?

    Apr 15, 2025Imad K. Harb

    Sudan’s ‘war of the generals’ between the Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) …

  • Webinar
    The Arab WorldConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Neglected Conflicts in Libya, Sudan, and Yemen: Humanitarian Conditions, Challenges, and Prospects for Resolution

    Apr 10, 2025 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM ET

    Experts examine neglected conflicts in Libya, Sudan, and Yemen, as well as their key drivers and pathways toward potential resolutions.

  • Policy Analysis
    LibyaConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Libya’s Deep Divisions Show No Sign of Abating

    Mar 27, 2025Gregory Aftandilian

    Libya has fallen off the international radar screen as other crises in the region—the Israel-Hamas and Israel-Hezbollah wars, the Sudanese civil war, and the c…

  • Policy Analysis
    YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    A Decade after the Saudi Military Intervention in Yemen: An Assessment

    Mar 25, 2025Afrah Nasser

    Exactly a decade ago, Saudi Arabia announced the launch of a military intervention in Yemen, promising to lead a coalition of more than 10 nations—although som…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Israel’s Center-Right and Leftist Parties Have Always Supported Displacing Gaza’s Palestinians

    Mar 12, 2025Mtanes Shihadeh

    IntroductionDuring his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on February 4, US President Donald Trump announced a plan to displace the residen…

  • Policy Analysis
    TurkeyDemocracy and Governance

    A New Phase in Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict: Ocalan’s Call and Its Implications

    Mar 12, 2025Salim Çevik

    On February 27, 2025, Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), made a historic call, through a letter, for the organizatio…