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Policy Analysis
The Arab World
How Will 2025 Be Different in the Middle East? Perspectives on the New Year
Jan 15, 2025Khalil E. Jahshan Daniel Brumberg Dana El Kurd Imad K. Harb Patricia Karam Nabeel A. Khoury Yousef Munayyer Annelle Sheline
The monumental events that took place in the Middle East in 2024 augur radical changes in the region’s geopolitical environment. Israel’s ongoing genocidal war…
External Readings
Palestine/IsraelMigrants, Refugees, and IDPs
UNRWA’s expulsion from Jerusalem will seal Israel’s illegal annexation
Jan 13, 2025Chris Gunness
In the last week of January, two Knesset bills ending Israel’s “cooperation” with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNRWA), are scheduled to come in…
Podcast
Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
A New Year and a Region in Transition
Jan 13, 2025
Hanna Alshaikh, Yara M. Asi, Rami G. Khouri, and Yousef Munayyer discuss how the Middle East region has changed over the past year and their expectations for 2…
From our Affiliates
SyriaUS Foreign Policy
Biden’s Approach to Post-Assad Syria
Jan 12, 2025The Unit for Political Studies
US President Joe Biden’s administration welcomed the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria on 8 December as a “historic opportunity for the long-sufferin…
Policy Analysis
OmanRegional Relations and Geopolitics
Syrian Regime Change: The View from Oman
Jan 9, 2025Giorgio Cafiero
The abrupt end of 61 years of Baathist rule in Syria on December 8 caught the Gulf states by surprise. Both governments and citizens of the Gulf Cooperation Co…
Intern Corner
Palestine/IsraelProtests and Activism
The Ongoing Suppression of Pro-Palestinian Advocacy in the United States
Jan 8, 2025Selma Karame
On October 15, 2024, the United States and Canada jointly announced terrorist sanctions against the Vancouver-based NGO Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarit…
Policy Analysis
LebanonDemocracy and Governance
Lebanon’s Post-Hezbollah “Day After”
Jan 7, 2025Patricia Karam
The surprising fall of the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria on the heel of Hezbollah’s spectacular losses and, with it, the tremendous weakening of Ir…
From our Affiliates
Palestine/IsraelInternational Law
Netanyahu and Gallant Arrest Warrants: International Justice on Trial
Jan 5, 2025Nizar Ayoub
When the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court of 1998 was adopted, very few expected that it would be applied to Israeli officials.
Policy Analysis
LebanonGlobal Health and Health Policy
Lebanon’s Health System: Decades of Struggle and a Year of Israeli Attacks
Jan 2, 2025Yara M. Asi
On September 17 and 18, 2024, a coordinated Israeli attack turned pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon into explosive devices, killing at least 42 people and i…
Policy Analysis
SyriaUS Foreign Policy
Damascus Falls, and So Does US Policy
Jan 2, 2025Charles W. Dunne
With a presidential transition imminent, US policy on Syria, not to mention the broader Middle East, is in limbo.
From our Affiliates
Palestine/IsraelEnergy and Economics
Gaza: Economic Collapse and Humanitarian Catastrophe
Dec 26, 2024The Unit for Economic Studies
It has been a year since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began, leaving behind a trail of unprecedented destruction and a deepening humanitarian catastrophe tha…
Viewpoint
Palestine/IsraelInternational Law
Israel, Syria, and International Law
Dec 26, 2024Jonathan Kuttab
The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has provided Israel with yet more opportunities to brazenly tear apart the fabric of international legal norms, f…