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  • Yousef Munayyer interviewed by NPR regarding Trump’s proposal for Gaza

    Feb 5, 2025

    Yousef Munayyer was interviewed by NPR regarding Trump proposal for Gaza reconstruction and relocation of it's Palestinian population.

  • Op-Eds
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    Ethnic Cleansing Won’t Make the Middle East Safer

    Feb 5, 2025Yousef Munayyer

    Trump’s proposed takeover of Gaza would derail recent Mideast peace agreements and unravel those signed decades ago.

  • Yousef Munayyer interviewed by Democracy Now regarding Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza

    Feb 5, 2025

    Yousef Munayyer was interviewed by Democracy Now regarding President Trump's plan to take over and ethnically cleanse Gaza.

  • Yousef Munayyer interviewed by the BBC regarding President Trump’s plan to take over Gaza

    Feb 4, 2025

    Yousef Munayyer interviewed by the BBC regarding Donald Trump's plan to take over Gaza and permanently displace it's Palestinian population.

  • Viewpoint
    SyriaRegional Relations and Geopolitics

    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 authorities did by a…

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    LevantDiplomacy and Negotiations

    Netanyahu in Washington: A High-Stakes White House Visit

    Feb 4, 2025

    Netanyahu is in Washington seeking political backing, strategic leverage, and a way to shift blame if negotiations collapse. Will Trump stand firm on the cease…

  • External Readings
    LevantThe War on Gaza

    Who will lead the Palestinians? This is a question they must be allowed to debate and answer themselves

    Feb 3, 2025Dana El Kurd

    Since the announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza, much of the world has focused on the immediate impacts of destruction in the strip. The discussion has been focu…

  • Washington Policy Weekly
    Public Opinion, Protest, and Debate

    Washington Policy Weekly: Trump Issues Executive Order on Antisemitism and Pro-Palestine Activism

    Feb 3, 2025Ethan Mayer-Rich

    Ethan Mayer-Rich reports on Trump’s executive order to combat antisemitism and “pro-Hamas” activism, including a warning of deporting certain foreign student p…

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    LevantThe War on Gaza

    The Gaza Deal, Trump, and What to Expect from His Policy on Palestine

    Feb 3, 2025The Unit for Political Studies

    After more than 15 months of brutal, destructive Israeli aggression against Gaza, Qatari-led mediation efforts in cooperation with Egypt and the United States …

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelInternational Law

    The Slowdown in Enforcing International Law

    Jan 29, 2025Jonathan Kuttab

    International law has helped govern the behavior of states for hundreds of years. Early principles like the prohibition on poisoning wells (rooted in just war …

  • Policy Analysis
    SyriaJustice, Equality, and Human Rights

    Liberation from the “Human Slaughterhouse”: A Dark History of Imprisonment in Syria

    Jan 28, 2025Yara M. Asi

    Assad's regime imprisoned more than 150,000 people, including some 5,000 children. Multiple reports have emerged of horrific torture, neglect, and murder insid…

  • Washington Policy Weekly
    The War on Gaza

    Washington Policy Weekly: Trump Suggests Transferring Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt

    Jan 27, 2025Ethan Mayer-Rich

    Ethan Mayer-Rich reports on President Trump’s call on Jordan and Egypt to take in Gazans; his revocation of the Biden administration’s sanctions on extremist I…