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    IranIdentity Politics and Sectarianization

    Rafsanjani’s Death and Its Impact on Iran’s Political Bazaar

    Jan 9, 2017Imad K. Harb

    The death of former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani comes at a critical time in the Islamic Republic’s political history. As one of the founders…

  • Op-Eds

    Radwan Ziadeh: The Implications of Trump’s Victory for the US and the World (in Arabic)

    Jan 6, 2017Radwan Ziadeh

    Trump's victory can be analyzed from two different angles. One would be to examine how he was able to win enough electoral votes to become the next President. …

  • Washington Policy Weekly
    LevantUS Domestic Politics and Elections

    House and Senate Introduce Resolutions Disapproving the UNSC Resolution on Israeli Settlements

    Jan 6, 2017

    On January 5, 2017, the US House of Representatives, by a vote of 342-80, passed HRes11, a non-binding resolution objecting to the United Nations Security Coun…

  • Featured Speakers
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    Prospects for Palestinian Statehood: UN Resolution 2334 and John Kerry’s Speech

    Jan 10, 2017

    Arab Center Washington DC (ACW) held its first ambassadorial luncheon of 2017 on January 10 with Ambassador Maen Areikat, Chief Representative of the PLO Gener…

  • Op-Eds

    Yousef Munayyer: John Kerry’s “Separate and Unequal” Message on Israel and Palestine

    Jan 4, 2017Yousef Munayyer

    Last Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a lengthy and impassioned speech on Israel and Palestine that will go down as a major moment in America…

  • Policy Analysis
    LevantUS Domestic Politics and Elections

    Recalculating Route: America and Israel on Divergent Paths

    Jan 3, 2017Yousef Munayyer

    In May 2016, I wrote that the Obama Administration should carefully weigh options for how to address the Israeli/Palestinian issue during its last months in of…

  • From our Affiliates

    The Rise of the Right and the Adoption of the Clash of Civilizations – When Democracy Spawns the Antithesis of Liberalism

    Dec 30, 2016Azmi Bishara

    Experience confirms that participation in actual government limits the ability of right-wing populist parties to use their most important storyline of a politi…

  • Policy Analysis
    US Domestic Politics and Elections

    US President-elect Donald J. Trump and his Foreign Policy Cabinet Choices: Focus on Middle East Issues

    Dec 29, 2016Roxanne Perugino

    In the last few weeks, President-elect Donald Trump has been building his team of senior officials. The team selected as his foreign policy appointees presents…

  • Op-Eds

    The Reason for Israel’s Hysterical Response to the UN Security Council Resolution

    Dec 28, 2016Yousef Munayyer

    Netanyahu takes pride in killing the two-state solution—but he doesn’t want to be blamed for it, because he knows the only acceptable alternative is equality f…

  • Policy Analysis
    IranConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    After Aleppo: The Political and Regional Implications of the New Middle East “Troika”

    Dec 28, 2016Joe Macaron

    Since August 2016, new regional power dynamics have been emerging in the wars in Syria. The trend has manifested itself in the fall of Aleppo and the December …

  • Yousef Munayyer discusses Israeli Settlements and the UN resolution on CNN

    Dec 27, 2016

  • Policy Analysis
    IranConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Sidelining Asad: Questioning the Future of Russian-Iranian-Turkish Convergence in Syria

    Dec 27, 2016Imad K. Harb

    The battle of Aleppo has finally been decided in favor of the Syrian regime and its Russian, Iranian, and militia cohorts. But for all intents and purposes, th…