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2 weeks ago | 
arabcenterdc.org | Charles W. Dunne |Dana El Kurd |Imad K. Harb |Khalil E. Jahshan
Last week President Donald Trump ended a three-country trip to the Arabian Gulf—Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates—where he signed lucrative arms and business deals and got commitments from his hosts to make huge investments in the American economy.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Khalil E. Jahshan |Daniel Brumberg |Dana El Kurd |Imad K. Harb
The monumental events that took place in the Middle East in 2024 augur radical changes in the region’s geopolitical environment. Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, its continued operations in southern Lebanon despite a negotiated ceasefire, and its illegal territorial expansion at the expense of Syria have helped erode international law as a guarantor of state sovereignty, peace, and security.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Daniel Byman |Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib |Dana El Kurd |John Nagl
The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, raises several questions about the future of the Israel-Hamas war and the broader regional conflict between Israel and Iran. Can Hamas regenerate? How should Israel think about next steps? Similarly, what should inform its strategy for dealing with Hezbollah in Lebanon, after the killing of its leader Hassan Nasrallah? Join FP Live for an in-depth discussion with retired U.S. Army Gen.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Dana El Kurd
The war in Gaza is only the beginning of mass violence that is likely to increase and spread in Israel and the Palestinian territories and across the region. The second Palestinian uprising, or intifada, from 2000 to 2005, revealed that the Oslo peace process framework was incapable of resolving the underlying structures of Israeli domination that plagued Palestinian self-determination.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Dana El Kurd
Some 300 days into the Israeli war on Gaza, and following Israel’s shocking July 31 assassination of Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, a major figure in ceasefire negotiations, the question of what will happen to Gaza—as both a political entity and a society—remains unanswered. Israel’s current government has not indicated a deviation from its objective of annihilating Hamas and imposing costs on Palestinians in Gaza, even if it means destroying the Gaza Strip entirely.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
scholarship.richmond.edu | Elizabeth Saunders |Diana B. Greenwald |Dana El Kurd |David Edelstein
What political scientists know about occupation, applied to GazaExperts on the politics of foreign occupations tackle big questions in this week’s Good Chat. All Good Authority content is published under a Creative Commons license and can be republished [email protected] All Good Authority content is published under a Creative Commons license and can be republished subject to these conditions. Saunders, E., Greenwald, D., El Kurd, D., Edelstein, D., & Downes, A. (2023).
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
jewishcurrents.org | Dana El Kurd
In the months since Israel began its annihilatory assault on Gaza, there has been extensive discussion in global policy circles about Palestinian governance on the elusive “day after.” For its part, the Israeli government has refused to entertain the idea of Palestinian self-government or statehood, with members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet instead pledging their full support for ethnic cleansing and re-settlement of the Gaza Strip.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Dana El Kurd
Despite mounting international backlash, the Israeli military has continued its invasion of Rafah—the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip where over a million Palestinians had been told to take shelter. Images from an Israeli attack on Palestinians sheltering in tents have gone viral. One video of a headless child, the victim of heavy bombardment, has circulated widely, prompting protests around the world and violent clashes—including the setting of fires—outside an Israeli embassy.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Dana El Kurd
Seven months into Israel’s violence in Gaza—which has credibly been identified as an active genocide—the Middle East has teetered on the brink of chaos. Understandably, media attention has focused on the prospect of escalating regional conflict. Coverage has concentrated on militant groups such as the Houthi rebels who have nearly maritime traffic along the Gulf of Aden-Suez Canal route, and Hezbollah’s escalations on Lebanon’s southern border.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
caledonianrecord.com | Dana El Kurd
