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Collective Analysis
The Arab WorldEducation and Development
UNGA 2026: War, Diplomacy, and the Middle East’s Changing Order
Sep 28, 2026Nur Arafeh Imad K. Harb Khalil E. Jahshan Tamara Kharroub Negar Mortazavi Yousef Munayyer Daniel Neep
Nearly 130 world leaders attended the general debate of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), held in New York from September 22 to 2…
Policy Analysis
The Arab WorldEducation and Development
The Human Cost of US Aid Cuts Across the Arab World
Sep 10, 2026Yara M. Asi
When Fatima, a mother of two in Yemen, went into labor with her third child in May 2025, there was initially little cause for concern. But Yemen is a poor coun…
Research Paper
Palestine/IsraelEducation and Development
Israel’s Academia Deepens Colonial Control After the Gaza War
Jun 23, 2026Saher Ghazawi
This paper investigates Israeli academia in the post-Gaza war era (2023–25) as a structural actor involved in the production of a security-military discourse t…
Intern Corner
Palestine/IsraelProtests and Activism
The New University Order: How Repressing the Pro-Palestine Student Movement Has Reshaped US Higher Education
Jun 15, 2026Emesa Melki
It has been more than two years since Columbia University students established the first Palestine Solidarity Encampment on April 17, 2024. Within weeks, stude…
Intern Corner
Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
Occupation Funded, Development Denied: How American Aid Cuts Affect the West Bank
May 16, 2025Adriana Hashem
On his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump made his opening moves to dismantle the fiscal and ideological foundations of American foreign…
Viewpoint
Education and Development
Where Are Our College Leaders? The Danger of Anticipatory Obedience in Higher Education
Apr 9, 2025Tariq Habash
Since October 7, 2023, American colleges and universities have repeatedly found themselves at the center of escalating political pressure amid student activism…
Policy Analysis
US Foreign Policy
What Trump’s Aid Cuts Mean for the Middle East and North Africa
Mar 21, 2025Amy Hawthorne
Although the Trump administration exempted Israel’s $3.3 billion and Egypt’s $1.3 billion in annual foreign military financing (FMF)—the majority of US assista…
Webinar
US Foreign Policy
Upending Soft Power: The Human Cost of U.S. Funding Cuts in the MENA Region
Mar 13, 2025 10:00 AM - 11:30 am ET
Experts discuss the impact of US funding cuts across the Middle East region, with a focus on health and humanitarian aid and development, human rights, and civ…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelEducation and Development
The US Academy and the Destruction of Gaza’s Education System
Jul 3, 2024Hanna Alshaikh
After Columbia University students set up a pro-Palestinian encampment on April 17, similar ones formed on campuses not only in the United States but worldwide…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelEducation and Development
Israel’s War on the Education Sector in the Gaza Strip
Mar 20, 2024Nour Naim
Palestinians’ experience with displacement, asylum, and dispossession since the Nakba in 1948 sparked what can be described as an educational revolution, leadi…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelEducation and Development
Political Persecution of Palestinians Using the Education System and Israeli Universities
Sep 21, 2023Mada al-Carmel
Since the formation of Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s sixth government December 29, 2022, it has become clear—as outlined in previous papers from …
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelEducation and Development
The Politics of Palestinian Universities
Sep 8, 2023Yara M. Asi
Many have argued that in the absence of a unified Palestinian liberation movement, and even of the ability to participate in the current mechanisms of governan…