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Egypt’s Policies and Rhetoric Target Sudanese Refugees
Jan 24, 2025Ingie Gohar
The war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shows no signs of abating since…
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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…
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Rebuilding and Strengthening Syria’s State Institutions
Dec 23, 2024Nour Taha
Nour Taha discusses the need for reviving and strengthening state institutions in Syria after the collapse of the Assad…
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Algeria’s Tebboune, Le Pouvoir, and the Challenges of Legitimacy
Oct 3, 2024Nour Taha
On September 7, Algerians headed to the polls for an early presidential election that revealed deep apathy and a…
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How Egypt has Failed Palestinians in Gaza
Aug 22, 2024Emily Costello
Egypt’s policy for Palestinian refugees has worsened the already immense suffering of those fleeing the war on Gaza. Corruption…
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Israel’s Use of White Phosphorus and the Inadequacy of International Law
Aug 7, 2024Karam Burjas
On October 16, 2023, Israel indiscriminately targeted civilians in Al-Duhayra, a town in Southern Lebanon, with a chemical agent…
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Militarization of Settler Groups Threatens to Open a West Bank Front
Jun 20, 2024Kellie Kuenzle
Mobs of masked, weapon-wielding men descended upon the Palestinian villages of al-Mughayyir, Duma, Deir Dibwan, Beitin, and Aqraba throughout…
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Captagon: Assad’s Ticket to Normalization in the Arab World?
May 22, 2024Emily Costello
On May 19, 2023, Bashar al-Assad made headlines by attending the Arab League summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for…
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Young Americans and the War on Gaza: President Biden Should Worry
Jan 5, 2024Suravi Kumar
For decades, Israel enjoyed strong bipartisan backing from Americans. But in recent years, there has been a measurable shift…
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The US Position on Saudi Arabia’s Civilian Nuclear Program
Aug 16, 2023 Seerat Sohal
In June 2023, Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud affirmed the kingdom’s intent to enrich…
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Disinformation as a Tool of Regime Survival in Tunisia
Jul 21, 2023C. Ian DeHaven
Disinformation—false information created with the intent to mislead others—swamped the 2019 Tunisian presidential election, creating a confused and volatile…
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Egypt Has Broken Its Social Contract with Its Citizens
Mar 14, 2023Salmah Arfouly
In response to rising oil and food prices, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi recently insinuated that Egyptians should “eat…
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Disaster Politics and Earthquake Diplomacy in Syria and Turkey
Mar 6, 2023Fadi Hilani
The earthquake must not be an opportunity for Assad’s regime to rehabilitate itself in the eyes of the international…
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Syria Is Not Ready to Repatriate Displaced Syrians
Sep 20, 2022Hannah Jacobs
By 2015, over four million Syrians had fled the country’s civil war and arrived in neighboring countries, in Europe,…
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Iraq’s Opposition Builds a Blueprint for Dismantling a Corrupt Sectarian System
Jun 28, 2022Zahraa Alribeawi
Iraqi politicians’ continued failure to form a functioning government calls for a reexamination of the country’s current political system,…
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Twenty Years After 9/11: A Reckoning for Anti-Muslim Hostility in the United States
Dec 10, 2021Patricia Jannack
In his human rights speech at the University of Connecticut in October, President Joe Biden argued that the best…
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Palestinian Youth and the Futility of the Two-State Solution
Sep 30, 2021Kerent Benjumea
Following Israel’s expulsions of Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and its war on Gaza this year, pro-Palestine movements…
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Gender and US Foreign Policy in the Middle East
May 19, 2021Andrea Sakleh
On November 17, 2001, then First Lady Laura Bush gave a radio address to the nation that lamented Afghan women as…
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China’s Maritime Challenge to the United States in the Gulf
Mar 30, 2021Gabriella Haedelt
The Arabian Gulf has emerged as a theater of investment, international integration, and rivalry for global powers, especially after…
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Mitigating Conflict over Water in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin
Dec 15, 2020Yoseph Hamid
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)—the most water-scarce region in the world—has arguably borne the brunt of climate…

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