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  • Policy Analysis
    EgyptUS Foreign Policy

    The US-Egypt Relationship Might Face a Reckoning

    Sep 11, 2025Charles W. Dunne

    The relationship between the United States and Egypt has seen many highs and lows over the decades. Under Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and now Trump …

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    The GREAT Trust for Gaza: A Blueprint for Dispossession, Not Reconstruction

    Sep 4, 2025Khalil E. Jahshan Imad K. Harb Yousef Munayyer Assal Rad Annelle Sheline

    The Trump administration is currently discussing the so-called Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust plan that projects a…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    Trump’s Support for Netanyahu: A Political Liability?

    Aug 29, 2025Gregory Aftandilian

    Despite occasional irritations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump has made unconditional US backing of the Israeli leader a…

  • Policy Analysis
    LebanonSecurity and Defense

    Disarming Hezbollah: Lebanon at a Crossroads

    Aug 20, 2025Patricia Karam

    The only viable route to lasting stability, economic recovery, and sovereignty is to restore the Lebanese state's constitutional monopoly over arms through a t…

  • Fresh Take
    LebanonUS Foreign Policy

    The Trump Administration’s Security Expectations for Lebanon

    Jul 30, 2025

    Imad K. Harb examines how the Trump administration is pressuring Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah, even as Israel maintains its occupation of Lebanese territory and…

  • Policy Analysis
    SyriaUS Foreign Policy

    Lifting US Sanctions on Syria: A New Chapter for Damascus and Beirut?

    Jul 18, 2025Patricia Karam

    In a May 13, 2025, speech in Riyadh, President Donald Trump surprised the world by pledging to lift all US sanctions on Syria. Trump’s unexpected announcement …

  • Op-Eds
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    Netanyahu Is Stroking Trump’s Ego: But Will Flattery Buy a Ceasefire in Gaza?

    Jul 16, 2025Khalil E. Jahshan

    The formal dinner at the White House was essentially a diplomatic “dud” with no serious announcements about any agreements on the agenda items revealed to the …

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    A Trump-Netanyahu New Middle East?

    Jul 9, 2025Nabeel A. Khoury

    The Trump administration and the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been following a roadmap toward their own version of a…

  • Webinar
    SyriaUS Foreign Policy

    The Future of US-Syria Relations and the Implications of Lifting the Sanctions

    Jul 15, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM ET

    Experts examine the lifting of US sanctions on Syria and the diplomatic rapprochement between Washington and Damascus.

  • Fresh Take
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    White House Dinner Dampens Hopes for a Ceasefire

    Jul 8, 2025

    Khalil E. Jahshan comments on the Trump-Netanyahu dinner at the White House and discusses the potential for a ceasefire in Gaza.

  • Viewpoint
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    Trump Must Push for a Gaza Ceasefire Without Indulging Netanyahu’s Iran Strategy

    Jul 7, 2025Daniel Brumberg

    We may never, or at least not anytime soon, know definitively how much of Iran's nuclear program Israel and the United States destroyed. But even if the attack…

  • From our Affiliates
    IranUS Foreign Policy

    From Imperial Containment to Catastrophe: Why the US-Israeli Strategy Against Iran Collapsed

    Jul 6, 2025Bamo Nouri Inderjeet Parmar

    The military escalation of June 2025 – marked by Israel’s unprovoked and illegal attacks on Iranian nuclear sites and the first-ever direct US military aggress…