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History Redux: Immigrants from MENA and the US Presidential Election
Jun 26, 2024Gregory AftandilianTrump’s previous policies affecting Muslims and President Biden’s stance on the Gaza war are likely to either keep Arab-Americans…
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Difficulties Facing a US-Saudi Security Agreement
Jun 25, 2024Kristian Coates UlrichsenThe search for a US-brokered Saudi-Israeli deal to normalize relations has assumed outsized significance in the administration’s approach to…
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Exploring the Options: Arab Oil Exporters and the US Dollar
Jun 21, 2024Jim KraneThe pricing of oil in US dollars is one of the perks the United States enjoys due to its…
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Israel’s War on Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank
Jun 21, 2024Jonathan KuttabSince October 7, 2023, much of the world’s attention has rightly been focused on the Gaza Strip, which had…
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Israel’s Lost Deterrence and the Coming Conflict with Hezbollah
Jun 12, 2024Patricia KaramAs the two countries inch closer to all-out war, the coming months may be the most dangerous time in…
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Pro-Palestine Campus Encampments and Israel’s Targeting of American Students
Jun 7, 2024Heba GowayedOn at least 80 college and university campuses across the United States, students formed encampments demanding that their universities…
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Bracing for the Sandstorm: The Gulf Energy Transition Imperative
Jun 6, 2024Karim ElgendyBefore the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United…
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Isolating Gaza from the World: Humanitarian Implications of Israel’s Seizure of Rafah
Jun 6, 2024Yara M. AsiPrior to the fall of 2023, Rafah was a relatively unknown city in the already poorly understood Gaza Strip,…
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Violence Against Women in Lebanon: The Challenge of Legislative Action
Jun 6, 2024Rola El-HusseiniIn March 2024, Lebanon’s “reform MPs,” a group of legislators who were elected in 2022 from outside the country’s…
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Biden’s Warmed-over Ceasefire Proposal
Jun 6, 2024Khalil E. JahshanIn the midst of what the White House touted to supporters as a significant update of his administration’s diplomatic…
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Biden’s Gaza Announcement: What to Make of the Bizarre Spectacle
Jun 4, 2024Yousef MunayyerOn May 31, President Joe Biden announced what he described as a “comprehensive new proposal” offered by Israel for…
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The Supremacy of Executive Power in Kuwait
Jun 4, 2024Kristian Coates UlrichsenTwo decades of political turbulence in Kuwait came to a head on the evening of May 10 when Emir…
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Will Ebrahim Raisi’s Death Help Ultra-Hardliners ‘Make Iran Great Again’?
May 31, 2024Daniel BrumbergThe May 19 deaths of President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in a fiery helicopter crash has…
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ICC Cases Against Israel and Hamas: A Preliminary Assessment
May 24, 2024Susan Akram John QuigleyThe Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim A.A. Khan, announced on May 20 that his office had…
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UAE Restricts US Military Strikes from Its Territory
May 22, 2024Gregory AftandilianFearing an attack by Iran or its allied militias in the region, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has restricted…
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Determinants of Saudi Arabia’s Response to the Gaza War
May 22, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy StudiesFollowing Hamas’s “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” on October 7, Saudi Arabia publicly criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza and blamed it…
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Seven Months of War on Gaza, Israel Is in International Distress
May 17, 2024Mtanes ShihadehThe Israeli government has described the war on Gaza since last October as an “existential war and a second…
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The Gaza Crisis Pushes Washington and Riyadh Closer
May 15, 2024Daniel BrumbergHamas’s May 6 acceptance of a hostage deal proposed by Egypt and Qatar was surely designed to induce the…
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Divergent Saudi-Emirati Agendas Cripple Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council
May 15, 2024Afrah NasserTwo years into its existence, Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) still has not effectively addressed critical problems facing the…
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One Year On: The Calamities of the Sudan Conflict
May 14, 2024Imad K. HarbThirteen months have passed since the eruption of the military dispute between Sudan’s powerful generals Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, leader…
