• Policy Analysis
    SyriaUS Foreign Policy

    Lifting US Sanctions on Syria: A New Chapter for Damascus and Beirut?

    Jul 18, 2025Patricia Karam

    In a May 13, 2025, speech in Riyadh, President Donald Trump surprised the world by pledging to lift all US sanctions on Syria. Trump’s unexpected announcement …

  • Op-Eds
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    Netanyahu Is Stroking Trump’s Ego: But Will Flattery Buy a Ceasefire in Gaza?

    Jul 16, 2025Khalil E. Jahshan

    The formal dinner at the White House was essentially a diplomatic “dud” with no serious announcements about any agreements on the agenda items revealed to the …

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Palestine and the Middle East After the Iran-Israel war

    Jul 15, 2025Rami G. Khouri

    The Middle East in recent months has witnessed multiple military and ideological confrontations. Historic changes in regional power balances signal new strateg…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Jul 14, 2025Ethan Mayer-Rich

    Secretary Rubio announced sanctions on Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since…

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    IranEnergy and Economics

    Coming to Terms with Economic Sanctions on Iran

    Jul 13, 2025Meriem Heni

    ​For more than four decades, Iran has been subject to wide-ranging international sanctions, first by the United States in 1979 after the Islamic Revolution and…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    A Trump-Netanyahu New Middle East?

    Jul 9, 2025Nabeel A. Khoury

    The Trump administration and the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been following a roadmap toward their own version of a…

  • Webinar
    SyriaUS Foreign Policy

    The Future of US-Syria Relations and the Implications of Lifting the Sanctions

    Jul 15, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM ET

    Experts examine the lifting of US sanctions on Syria and the diplomatic rapprochement between Washington and Damascus.

  • Fresh Take
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    White House Dinner Dampens Hopes for a Ceasefire

    Jul 8, 2025

    Khalil E. Jahshan comments on the Trump-Netanyahu dinner at the White House and discusses the potential for a ceasefire in Gaza.

  • Viewpoint
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    Trump Must Push for a Gaza Ceasefire Without Indulging Netanyahu’s Iran Strategy

    Jul 7, 2025Daniel Brumberg

    We may never, or at least not anytime soon, know definitively how much of Iran's nuclear program Israel and the United States destroyed. But even if the attack…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly: House Members Seek to Give Israel the “Bunker Buster” Bomb

    Jul 7, 2025Ethan Mayer-Rich

    Reps. Gottheimer and Lawler introduced H.R.4281, which authorizes the US president to support Israel’s defense by providing it with the Massive Ordnance Penetr…

  • From our Affiliates
    IranUS Foreign Policy

    From Imperial Containment to Catastrophe: Why the US-Israeli Strategy Against Iran Collapsed

    Jul 6, 2025Bamo Nouri Inderjeet Parmar

    The military escalation of June 2025 – marked by Israel’s unprovoked and illegal attacks on Iranian nuclear sites and the first-ever direct US military aggress…

  • Policy Analysis
    TunisiaDemocracy and Governance

    Repression and Judicial Struggles in Kais Saied’s Tunisia

    Jul 3, 2025The Unit for Political Studies

    Almost four years into President Kais Saied’s imposition of one-man-rule in Tunisia, his effort pivots around a process of “executive aggrandizement” that is d…

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