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OPEC Is Pushing Down Oil Prices Despite a Cash Crunch in Saudi Arabia. Here Is Why
Aug 21, 2025Jim KraneSomething odd is happening in oil markets. Demand is weaker than it has been in many years, yet OPEC+…
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Disarming Hezbollah: Lebanon at a Crossroads
Aug 20, 2025Patricia KaramThe only viable route to lasting stability, economic recovery, and sovereignty is to restore the Lebanese state's constitutional monopoly…
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The Growing Consensus over Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Aug 19, 2025Yara M. AsiJust one week after October 7, 2023, more than 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies, and…
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The New York Declaration on the Two-State Solution: More Empty Promises?
Aug 15, 2025Susan M. AkramThe New York Declaration on the “Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State…
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Saudi Arabia’s Response to Israel’s New Security Doctrine in the Levant
Aug 14, 2025The Unit for Political StudiesIn July 2025, Saudi Arabia and France jointly convened a high-profile diplomatic conference in New York dedicated to reviving momentum for…
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Accountability for War Crimes in Gaza: Where We Are
Aug 13, 2025Sarah Leah WhitsonThe global struggle to hold Israel accountable for war crimes in Gaza represents a critical test for international justice.…
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Rumors and Risks: Lebanon’s Political Anxieties and Relations with the New Syria
Aug 12, 2025Patricia KaramIn May 2025, Syria’s transitional President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, confirmed that his government was in indirect communication with Israel, the…
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Moderation Without Transformation: Why Turkey Is Failing Syria’s Postwar Transition
Aug 8, 2025Salim ÇevikAfter years of investing in Syria’s opposition, Ankara is committed to see the emerging government in Damascus establish a…
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Saudi Arabia and the New Syria: Constructive Pragmatism?
Aug 7, 2025Kristian Coates UlrichsenA large Saudi business delegation traveled to Syria on July 23-25, 2025, and participated in an inaugural Syrian-Saudi Investment…
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From Sectarianism to Tribalism: Rebuilding Syria’s Power Structures
Aug 6, 2025Haian DukhanThe July 13–18, 2025 violence between Druze and Bedouin in Syria’s southern al-Suwayda governorate was followed by a massive…
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Refugees Return to Syria: Challenges and Uncertainties
Aug 1, 2025Globally the human displacement crisis has reached unprecedented heights, with one in every 67 people forced from their homes.…
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Gaza: Is a Ceasefire Possible?
On July 25, 2025, the United States and Israel announced that they were cutting short Gaza ceasefire talks with…
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Sisi’s Foreign Policy Fails to Obscure Egypt’s Festering Economic Problems
Jul 23, 2025Gregory AftandilianAlthough Egypt’s economy has seen several improvements over the past year, namely a fall in the inflation rate and an…
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Starved, Ruined, and Displaced: What’s Next for Gaza?
Jul 18, 2025In recent weeks, two significant developments have dominated the news from Gaza. One is the daily deadly violence surrounding…
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Lifting US Sanctions on Syria: A New Chapter for Damascus and Beirut?
Jul 18, 2025Patricia KaramIn a May 13, 2025, speech in Riyadh, President Donald Trump surprised the world by pledging to lift all…
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Palestine and the Middle East After the Iran-Israel war
Jul 15, 2025Rami G. KhouriThe Middle East in recent months has witnessed multiple military and ideological confrontations. Historic changes in regional power balances…
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A Trump-Netanyahu New Middle East?
Jul 9, 2025Nabeel A. KhouryThe Trump administration and the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been following a roadmap toward…
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Repression and Judicial Struggles in Kais Saied’s Tunisia
Jul 3, 2025The Unit for Political StudiesAlmost four years into President Kais Saied’s imposition of one-man-rule in Tunisia, his effort pivots around a process of…
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Israel-Iran Confrontation Tests Saudi Arabia’s Quest for Neutrality
Jul 2, 2025The Unit for Political StudiesOvernight on June 21-22, American military aircraft launched strikes on three nuclear facilities inside Iran, most notably the fortified…
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The GCC States and the US-Iran Dance Near the Abyss
Jul 2, 2025Kristian Coates UlrichsenYears of shadowboxing and increasingly direct skirmishing between Israel and Iran erupted into 12 days of conflict that began…
