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Does Trump Still Want to “Clean Out” the Gaza Strip?
Mar 25, 2025Khalil E. Jahshan
As the January 15, 2025 ceasefire agreement that had brought limited calm to Gaza fell apart in early March…
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Timeline of the Recent Sectarian Strife on Syria’s Coast
Mar 19, 2025Radwan Ziadeh
On March 6, loyalists to Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad attacked the new government’s troops in the coastal areas…
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Trump Sidesteps Congress, Giving Billions to Israel
Mar 7, 2025Ethan Mayer-Rich
For the second time in six weeks, the Trump administration has bypassed Congress to send Israel billions of dollars…
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The Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Activism Intensifies in the United States
Feb 26, 2025Ethan Mayer-Rich
The new Trump administration has made it clear that repressing pro-Palestine activism is a priority. Trump issued an executive…
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Recent Arab Moves Deserve Bold Follow-Up
Feb 21, 2025Rami G. Khouri
Four key political actors in the Middle East have recently made surprising moves that offered hints of how Arab…
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An Existential Oval Office Moment for Jordan—and All Arabs
Feb 14, 2025Rami G. Khouri
The scene in the White House on February 11 was startling. King Abdullah II of Jordan listened to President…
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The Gaza War and the Future of Democracy in the United States and Israel
Feb 14, 2025Daniel Brumberg
In a way that few could have predicted a few short weeks ago, the fate of democracy in the…
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Trump’s First Three Weeks in Office: Signs of Disruption and Chaos
Feb 13, 2025Khalil E. Jahshan
In his first few weeks back in office, Donald J. Trump delivered his characteristic ‘shock and confusion’ tactics by…
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The Drama, Delusion, and Dangers of Trump’s Gaza Plan
Feb 6, 2025Rami G. Khouri
Donald Trump displayed his usual combination of disruption and delusion with his proposal for the US to take over…
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Revolutionary Legitimacy in Syria: Sharaa as President
Feb 4, 2025Radwan Ziadeh
In all transitional periods, it is important to move quickly from revolutionary legitimacy to representative legitimacy, which Syria’s new…
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A Blind Spot in Post-Assad Syria: The Fate of State Archival Records
Jan 21, 2025Marwa Daoudy Noureddine Jebnoun
The fall of the Assad regime has highlighted a crucial but often overlooked issue: the fate of Syria’s state…
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Incoherent Ceasefire Deal in Gaza Guaranteed to Fail
Jan 21, 2025Khalil E. Jahshan
After fifteen months of brutal military hostilities in the Gaza Strip, Hamas and Israel finally announced their acceptance of…
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The Emergence of Lebanon’s Third Republic
Jan 16, 2025Imad K. Harb
The election on January 9, 2025, of the Lebanese Army Commander Joseph Aoun as the fourteenth president of Lebanon…
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Israel, Syria, and International Law
Dec 26, 2024Jonathan Kuttab
The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has provided Israel with yet more opportunities to brazenly tear apart…
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Deciphering the Quick Collapse of the Assad Regime
Dec 17, 2024Radwan Ziadeh
Many western media outlets have speculated about the quick collapse of the Syrian regime and its military and security…
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Will Assad’s Fall Give Iran’s Reformists a New Lease on Life?
Dec 11, 2024Daniel Brumberg
For Iran, the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and what was left of his regime—together with Moscow’s decision to…
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A New Syria is Born: Hopes and Challenges
Dec 11, 2024Marwa Daoudy
December 8, 2024, marked a historic turning point in Syria and the Middle East region—a day when the Syrian…
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Israel’s Violations of the Ceasefire with Hezbollah Threaten to Undo It
Dec 10, 2024Imad K. Harb
The ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Lebanon on November 27 was a welcome development after 14 months of…
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A Preview of Trump’s National Security Team
Nov 19, 2024Ethan Mayer-Rich
Just two weeks have passed since President-elect Donald Trump won the election, and his new administration is already taking shape. Trump’s…
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Trump’s Middle East Team Will Have to Deal with His Unpredictability and Narcissism
Nov 8, 2024Daniel Brumberg
It is very hard to predict the foreign policy that president-elect Donald Trump will pursue because he is deeply…

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