Assal Rad

1 week ago | arabcenterdc.org | Assal Rad

Non-Resident Fellow, Arab Center Washington DC Dr. Assal Rad is a historian of the modern Middle East. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues, the Middle East, contemporary Iran, and Israel/Palestine. Her writing can be seen inNewsweek, The National Interest, The Independent, Foreign Policyand more, and she has appeared as a commentator onBBC World, Al Jazeera,, and.

2 months ago | arabcenterdc.org | Assal Rad |Assal RadScholar

As Lebanon marks 50 years since the start of its devastating civil war of 1975-1990, it finds itself at another inflection point. Israel occupies parts of southern Lebanon while the Mediterranean nation is rebuilding in the wake of massive and indiscriminate Israeli attacks. At the same time, the Lebanese state is adapting to new regional dynamics after Hezbollah’s diminished influence—with the loss of its leadership—by forming a new government.

2 months ago | thenation.com | Assal Rad

Society / April 14, 2025 Israel’s Genocide Has Resumed—and So Have the Media’s FailuresIsrael has returned to full-scale slaughter in Gaza. Western outlets have returned to the same disastrous coverage of the past 18 months. Ad Policy People walk among the rubble of the residential buildings targeted in Israel’s attack on Gaza on April 9, 2025.

Mar 4, 2025 | dawnmena.org | Assal Rad

It is often said that hindsight is 20/20, that we understand something better after it has already happened. That is certainly the case with the war in Iraq, which had support across the political spectrum in Washington and among the majority of Americans in the lead-up to the invasion, 22 years ago this month. Years later, the consensus is clear that the war was a significant U.S. blunder, launched based on fabrications and lies from George W. Bush's administration.

Jul 18, 2024 | zeteo.com | Assal Rad

When a poll in March showed that only about half of Americans could correctly answer that more Palestinians had been killed in the war on Gaza than Israelis, many of those who have been following the conflict were stunned. After all, the gap between Israeli and Palestinian deaths is enormous. By early March, Israel’s war on Gaza had killed more than 31,000 Palestinians.