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Policy Analysis
SyriaJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
What Does Normalization with Assad Mean for Accountability and a Political Resolution?
Apr 18, 2023Patricia Karam
Against the backdrop of Syria’s impending return to the Arab fold, French judges this month ordered three high-ranking Syrian intelligence officers to stand tr…
Conferences
Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
The “Abraham Accords”: Implications for Human Rights, a Just Peace, and US Policy
May 2, 2023
Experts discuss the implications of the Abraham Accords for human rights and democracy across the Middle East, as well as for US policies and priorities, regio…
Viewpoint
SudanDemocracy and Governance
Sudan’s Transitional Process Is Dead and Buried
Apr 17, 2023Imad K. Harb
It would be very difficult to consider the ongoing intra-military conflict in Sudan as a struggle to advance the cause of democratic development in the country…
Viewpoint
EgyptThe War in Ukraine
The Fallout of Sisi’s Gambit with Russia
Apr 14, 2023Khalil Al-Anani
A leaked US intelligence document has revealed that Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi allegedly instructed officials to secretly produce and ship rockets,…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelReligion and Politics
On the Struggle Between the Founding Colonialists and the New Colonialists of Israel
Apr 14, 2023Honaida Ghanim
Israel today is witnessing an unprecedented internal struggle that has split Israeli society into two contentious groups separated by what is, at least at the …
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
The United States’ Weak Response to the Netanyahu Government
Apr 12, 2023Douglas Christensen
In December of last year, Benjamin Netanyahu once again returned to the position of prime minister in Israel, leading a new far-right governing coalition that …
Policy Analysis
The Arabian Peninsula and The GulfClimate and Environment
The Costs and Benefits of Water Desalination in the Gulf
Apr 12, 2023Achref Chibani
Desalination has been identified as one technology that could help solve Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries’ water scarcity problem. Desalination is a co…
Webinar
SyriaJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
Detainees and Forcibly Disappeared Persons in Syria: Paths to Truth and Accountability
Apr 20, 2023
Experts examine the extent of arbitrary detentions and enforced disappearances in Syria, outline the processes already set up to address this crisis, analyze i…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelReligion and Politics
Evangelical Diversity and Support for Israel
Apr 11, 2023Mimi Kirk
Earlier this year, two ultra-Orthodox lawmakers in the Israeli Knesset, United Torah Judaism’s Moshe Gafni and Yaakov Asher, submitted a bill that would make r…
Op-Eds
Palestine/IsraelJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
Why Palestinians Aren’t Joining Israel’s Protests
Apr 7, 2023Yousef Munayyer
In most societies, vulnerable minorities are the biggest proponents of strong and independent courts, as it is the judiciary that often shields these groups fr…
Podcast
Palestine/IsraelJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
Why Palestinians Are Skipping Israel’s Protests
Apr 7, 2023
Diana Buttu and Yousef Munnayer discuss the Israeli protests against Netanyahu proposed "judicial reform" and the Palestinian position on these unprecedented p…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
Israel’s Policy of Fragmentation Harms Palestinian Hopes for a Sovereign State
Apr 6, 2023Jonathan Kuttab
Recent reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, and others have labeled Israel an apartheid state. Thi…