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  • External Readings
    Palestine/IsraelGlobal Health and Health Policy

    Systematic Discrimination and Fragmentation as Key Barriers to Palestinian Health and Healthcare

    Dec 1, 2021Medical Aid for Paestine

    We would like to encourage you to read the latest paper by Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP). Their new position paper describes how systematic discrimination an…

  • Policy Analysis
    Global Health and Health Policy

    The Overlooked Threat of Cancer in the Arab Region

    Nov 18, 2021Yara M. Asi

    Since its founding in 1985, Breast Cancer Awareness Month has been held in October every year. Originally an American enterprise, the event has become global, …

  • Op-Eds
    Palestine/IsraelGlobal Health and Health Policy

    The US media is touting Israel’s Covid recovery. But occupied Palestinians are left out

    Apr 13, 2021Yara M. Asi

    The US media has widely lauded Israel’s vaccine success - as a country in a “post-pandemic future” of concerts and indoor dining; as a country that could teach…

  • Policy Analysis
    Energy and Economics

    Starving and Being Starved: Addressing Food Insecurity in Arab Populations

    Apr 5, 2021Yara M. Asi

    After years of civil war and outside intervention, Yemen continues to be widely recognized as having the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. A significant contr…

  • "In 2 Minutes" Series
    Palestine/IsraelGlobal Health and Health Policy

    In 2 Minutes: Contradictions in Israel’s Coronavirus Policies

    Mar 4, 2021Jonathan Kuttab

    Human Rights Lawyer Jonathan Kuttab explains why it is Israel's responsibility to provide the COVID-19 vaccines to millions of Palestinians under its occupatio…

  • Podcast
    Palestine/IsraelGlobal Health and Health Policy

    Vaccinations in Israel/Palestine: Inequality in the Fight against COVID

    Feb 9, 2021

    Yara Asi joins host Yousef Munnayer to discuss how Israel excluded Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from receiving the coronavirus vaccine. Yara M.…

  • Op-Eds

    Israel’s vaccine efforts are incomplete until they include Palestinians

    Jan 15, 2021Yara M. Asi

    Palestinians depend on Israel for lifesaving medical care not because of poverty but because of politics.

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelGlobal Health and Health Policy

    Another Test of Palestinian Sumud: COVID-19 in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem

    Oct 27, 2020Yara M. Asi

    As the world has endured the crushing outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past seven months, a common refrain often heard is that “the virus knows no bo…

  • Policy Analysis
    North AfricaGlobal Health and Health Policy

    North African Autocrats Use the Pandemic to Expand Power, Settle Scores

    Sep 15, 2020Charles W. Dunne

    Many months have passed since the novel coronavirus epidemic began, with wide-ranging and often devastating health, economic, and social ramifications. The pol…

  • Policy Analysis
    The Arabian Peninsula and The GulfJustice, Equality, and Human Rights

    Migrant Workers’ Health and COVID-19 in GCC Countries

    Jul 7, 2020Yara M. Asi

    Yara M. Asi writes that poor health care provisions and crowded living conditions of migrant workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries have made them e…

  • Policy Analysis
    Global Health and Health Policy

    Do Arab Women Need Saving? The Health of Women in the Arab World

    Jun 8, 2020Yara M. Asi

    Yara M. Asi argues that the complexity of Arab women's lives necessitates powerful ways to protect their health and well-being that should be grounded in gende…

  • Event Video
    Global Health and Health Policy

    The Prospects for Developing an Effective Vaccine for COVID-19: When and How?

    May 21, 2020Khalil E. Jahshan

    This webinar focuses on the prospects of developing a vaccine for the coronavirus and the expected time frame for it to become available for distribution to th…