• Op-Eds
    LevantConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Gaza Peace Plan Risks Borrowing More From Tony Blair’s Failures in the Middle East Than His Success in Northern Ireland

    Oct 9, 2025Dana El Kurd

    Tony Blair, the man being tapped by U.S. President Donald Trump to help oversee governance of a postwar Gaza, has ample experience with peace processes. As Bri…

  • Policy Analysis
    LevantConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Why the Rush to Recognize Palestine? And Does It Matter?

    Oct 8, 2025Charles W. Dunne

    Recognition of a State of Palestine has recently taken on new momentum. On September 22, 2025, France became the latest country to extend recognition when Fren…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly: Trump Pledges to Protect Qatar

    Oct 6, 2025Ingie Gohar

    Trump signed an executive order that recognizes the “enduring alliance” between the US and Qatar and provides Doha with a security guarantee in the event of an…

  • Assal Rad interviewed by Al Jazeera regarding US media bias and Gaza

    Oct 6, 2025

    Assal Rad was interviewed by Al Jazeera regarding the US media bias surrounding the genocide in Gaza.

  • Tamara Kharroub contributes to ISPI’s “MED This Week”

    Oct 2, 2025

    Tamara Kharroub wrote a columns for ISPI's "MED This Week" regarding the exclusion of Palestinians and sidelining Arab partners in Trump's plan for Gaza.

  • Policy Analysis

    Beyond Gaza: The Strategic Fault Lines in Turkey–Israel Relations

    Oct 2, 2025

    Turkey–Israel relations have entered one of their most tense periods in years, triggered by a series of regional developments that have transformed the two cou…

  • From our Affiliates
    The Arabian Peninsula and The GulfSecurity and Defense

    Gulf Security After the Israeli Strike on Doha: Waning US Guarantees and Expanding Options

    Oct 2, 2025The Unit for Political Studies

    On September 17, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visited Riyadh and announced a defense agreement with Saudi Arabia. The announcement of the Saudi–Paki…

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    QatarThe War on Gaza

    Doha Wasn’t a One‑Off: What Israel’s 9 September Strike Signals?

    Oct 2, 2025Muhanad Seloom

    ​​​On 9 September 2025, Israel launched an airstrike in Doha targeting Hamas’s senior political leadership. The strike killed five Hamas-affiliated figures and…

  • Viewpoint

    The “New Syria” and Reconstruction under Regional Influences

    Oct 2, 2025

    On September 24, 2025, interim Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa addressed the 80th United Nations General Assembly—the first time a Syrian president has done s…

  • Collective Analysis
    LevantThe War on Gaza

    Another Half-Baked Trump Gaza Plan

    Oct 1, 2025

    On September 29, the White House announced a new 20-point plan for ending the Israeli war on Gaza that includes, among other things, provisions for an immediat…

  • Policy Analysis
    LevantThe War on Gaza

    Another Half-Baked Trump Gaza Plan

    On September 29, the White House announced a new 20-point plan for ending the Israeli war on Gaza that includes, among other things, provisions for an immediat…

  • Research Paper
    LevantEnergy and Economics

    Gas and Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Oct 1, 2025Jim Krane

    The resource base in the Eastern Mediterranean is of primary interest not because of the size of its reserves but because of its proximity to the EU market, an…

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