Drew Mikhael

Jan 9, 2025 | timep.org | Salma Daoudi |Drew Mikhael |Kassem Mnejja |Zeead Yaghi

In the year ahead, the MENA region faces an array of growing risks and a handful of important opportunities, all of which require precise and strategic thinking. Israel’s devastation of Gaza, which a growing consensus of rights groups have concluded is a genocide shows no sign of abating. The anger and despair born of this harrowing level of violence with no meaningful effort to end it will undoubtedly have grave consequences in the near future.

Nov 14, 2024 | timep.org | Zeead Yaghi |Drew Mikhael |Douglas Christensen

In light of the recent and alarming escalation of indiscriminate and widespread Israeli attacks across Lebanon, we, the undersigned organizations, call on the international community to unequivocally press for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging cross-border fire since October 2023. For nearly a year, the fighting between the two parties was mostly contained to the border regions of Lebanon and Israel.

Oct 30, 2024 | timep.org | Drew Mikhael |Douglas Christensen |Salma Daoudi

Since Israel expanded its assault on Lebanon last month, the Middle East stands on the edge of a wider regional conflict, the sparks of which we have seen amid the rocket exchanges between Israel and Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Yemen. For the past year, Western states have offered tepid responses to the horrors inflicted on Gaza, despite the very high civilian toll and the Strip’s untold destruction.