• Webinar
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    Implications of Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Plan for Gaza

    Mar 6, 2025 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET

    Experts discuss the implications of the White House's plan for Gaza and how it will affect the Middle East region.

  • Viewpoint
    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Recent Arab Moves Deserve Bold Follow-Up

    Feb 21, 2025Rami G. Khouri

    Four key political actors in the Middle East have recently made surprising moves that offered hints of how Arab states and non-state actors can collectively en…

  • Policy Analysis
    Saudi ArabiaUS Foreign Policy

    Normalization and Displacement: Saudi Arabia and Trump’s Gaza Proposal

    Feb 20, 2025The Unit for Political Studies

    Saudi Arabia is deeply concerned about the risks that Trump’s Gaza project poses to Egypt and Jordan and are uneasy about repeated American and Israeli stateme…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly: Trump Sets Ultimatum on Gaza

    Feb 18, 2025Ethan Mayer-Rich

    President Trump told reporters that Palestinians would not have a right to return to Gaza after its reconstruction. Trump indicated that he would consider cutt…

  • From our Affiliates
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    Trump’s Plan to ‘Cleanse’ Gaza: Origins and Implications

    Feb 17, 2025The Unit for Political Studies

    US President Donald Trump’s proposal to permanently displace more than two million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan, while the US takes ove…

  • From our Affiliates
    SyriaDemocracy and Governance

    The New Syrian Administration Caught between Domestic Demands and Foreign Pressures

    Feb 17, 2025The Unit for Political Studies

    Nearly two months since the fall of the Assad regime, the new Syrian administration faces major domestic and foreign challenges as it tries to resurrect state …

  • Khalil E. Jahshan interviewed by DW on Egypt-Israel tensions (in Arabic)

    Feb 15, 2025

    Khalil E. Jahshan interviewed by DW on the recent tension between Egypt and Israel and incitement of the Israel right against Cairo.

  • Viewpoint
    JordanUS Foreign Policy

    An Existential Oval Office Moment for Jordan—and All Arabs

    Feb 14, 2025Rami G. Khouri

    The scene in the White House on February 11 was startling. King Abdullah II of Jordan listened to President Donald Trump ramble on about how the United States …

  • Viewpoint
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    The Gaza War and the Future of Democracy in the United States and Israel

    Feb 14, 2025Daniel Brumberg

    In a way that few could have predicted a few short weeks ago, the fate of democracy in the United States (and in some ways Israel) has now been irrevocably tie…

  • Fresh Take
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    Trump’s Plan to Take Over and Ethnically Cleanse Gaza

    Feb 14, 2025

    Yousef Munayyer discusses Trump's plan to take over Gaza, displace its Palestinian population to other countries, and turn the strip into an economic and touri…

  • Viewpoint
    US Foreign Policy

    Trump’s First Three Weeks in Office: Signs of Disruption and Chaos

    Feb 13, 2025Khalil E. Jahshan

    In his first few weeks back in office, Donald J. Trump delivered his characteristic ‘shock and confusion’ tactics by unleashing dozens of draconian and vindict…

  • Policy Analysis
    US Foreign Policy

    Trump’s Second-Term Foreign Policy: Highly Centralized, and Highly Personal

    Feb 12, 2025Charles W. Dunne

    The late US secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld once famously explained his taxonomy of information in typically gnomic terms. “There are known knowns,” he sa…