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Five Key Questions After Israel’s Elections
Oct 30, 2026Yousef Munayyer
Israeli politics have once again arrived at a familiar dead end. For the eighth time in 13 years, an…
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The Gaza Ceasefire That Quieted the World
Oct 28, 2026Yousef Munayyer
One year after President Donald Trump secured a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel in Gaza, Israel continues to…
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Frontloading Austerity: The Risks of the IMF’s Approach for Lebanon
Oct 23, 2026Nabil Abdo
Since defaulting on its debt in March 2020, Lebanon’s government has still not reached an agreement with the International…
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Netanyahu’s Electoral Strategy: Deadlock
Oct 2, 2026Joseph Mansour
If neither Netanyahu’s coalition nor the opposition wins 61 seats on October 27, 2026, the keys to the prime…
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The Democrats’ Divide Over Israel Comes to the House Foreign Affairs Committee
Sep 11, 2026Ethan Mayer-Rich Ingie Gohar
US Representative Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) was selected by the Democratic party to become the ranking member of the House…
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Reading Palestinian Polls—and Misreading Palestinian Politics
Sep 3, 2026Yousef Munayyer
While the polling data may be eye-catching, interpreting the numbers requires reading Palestinian public sentiment correctly at an unprecedented…
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The Domestic Costs of Jordan’s US Alliance
Aug 24, 2026Jillian Schwedler
Since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran in February 2026, dozens of citizens of the Hashemite Kingdom…
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Lebanon’s False Bet on US Mediation
Aug 20, 2026Imad K. Harb
Earlier this month, Lebanon and Israel wrapped up another negotiating session in Rome—the seventh since their signing of the…
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What Are Syria’s Political Trials For?
Aug 18, 2026Daniel Neep
On August 11, 2026, the Fourth Syrian Criminal Court sentenced to death former President Bashar al-Assad and seven other…
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Libya’s Heatwave Exposes a Crisis of Governance
Aug 6, 2026Virginie Collombier
In July 2026, a major heatwave swept the western Mediterranean, causing extreme temperatures and fueling wildfires in France, Italy,…
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How to Fail at Preventing Atrocities: Sudan’s Unlearned Lessons
Jul 30, 2026Kholood Khair
Since June 2026, the United Nations, the United States, several European governments, and human rights organizations such as Amnesty…
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What Algeria’s Elections Really Revealed
Jul 28, 2026Patricia Karam
The results of Algeria’s July 2, 2026, parliamentary elections were entirely predictable. The National Liberation Front (FLN), the party…
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Trump Threatens “Major Military Punishment” for Yemen’s Houthis
Jul 23, 2026Nabeel A. Khoury
Until this week, the Houthis had been waiting to see whether their military involvement might be needed or called…
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Hamas Dissolves its Government in Gaza, but the Board of Peace Remains the Problem
Jul 15, 2026Dana El Kurd
On July 6, 2026, Hamas’s Gaza government announced that it had dissolved its Emergency Committee, the body that has…
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Israel’s Election and Eisenkot’s Arab Coalition Dilemma
Jul 15, 2026Joseph Mansour
Israelis are set to head to the polls on October 27, 2026, for what some have touted as the…
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Iran’s Nuclear Leverage Survives the War
Jun 24, 2026Sina Azodi
When President Donald Trump, in close partnership with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attacked Iran on February 28, 2026, he…
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What Does the US-Iran Deal Mean for Lebanese Sovereignty?
Jun 18, 2026Rola El-Husseini
Lebanon has never possessed genuine sovereignty, and this chronic deficit of internal and external control renders it a permanent…
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Israel’s War of Displacement in Lebanon
Jun 16, 2026Heba Gowayed
Since March 2, 2026, the most recent bout of Israeli violence in Lebanon has displaced an estimated 1.2 million…
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Will Trump “Finish the Job” in Iran?
Jun 12, 2026Daniel Brumberg
The US-Iranian ceasefire of April 8, 2026, may not withstand President Donald Trump’s June 11, 2026 threat to seize…
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Prospects for an Effective Arab Joint List in Israel
Jun 5, 2026Khalil E. Jahshan
On May 24, 2026, three Palestinian Arab parties in Israel announced that they would run on a joint list…

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