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  • Collective Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    The Willing Fools’ Peace of the Middle East

    Oct 15, 2025Hanna Alshaikh Yara M. Asi Imad K. Harb Khalil E. Jahshan Nabeel A. Khoury Laurie King

    Rather than serving as a forum for hashing out difficult next steps for Gaza, the Sharm summit was largely a congratulatory gesture to Donald Trump.

  • Op-Eds
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Giving Peace a Real Chance Must Include Refusing to Normalize Genocide

    Oct 15, 2025Yousef Munayyer

    When a deal was sealed in Cairo last week to set the stage for President Trump’s speech at the Israeli Knesset and summit in Sharm El Shaikh a few days later, …

  • Collective Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Another Half-Baked Trump Gaza Plan

    Oct 1, 2025Heba Gowayed Khalil E. Jahshan Tamara Kharroub Yousef Munayyer Daniel Neep Assal Rad

    On September 29, the White House announced a new 20-point plan for ending the Israeli war on Gaza that includes, among other things, provisions for an immediat…

  • Expert Interview
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    The Trump/Netanyahu Plan for Gaza

    Sep 30, 2025

    Noura Erakat, Daniel Levy, and Yousef Munayyer respond to Trump's latest proposal to end the war on Gaza and discuss the implications of the plan for Palestini…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Gaza’s Medical Crisis and the US Visa Freeze

    Sep 25, 2025Yara M. Asi

    On July 7, 2024, an Israeli bombing in Khan Younis, Gaza, killed the parents, brother, and sister of a three-year-old Palestinian boy named Adam. While Adam’s …

  • Podcast
    JordanUS Foreign Policy

    The Most American King

    Sep 23, 2025

    Aaron Magid and Khalil E. Jahshan explore King Abdullah II's evolving relationship with the United States over the past 26 years, as well as Magid's new book, …

  • 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 …

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