Heba Gowayed

1 month ago | arabcenterdc.org | Yara Asi |Heba Gowayed |Imad K. Harb |Khalil E. Jahshan

In response to President Donald Trump’s February 4 proposal to take over the Gaza Strip, displacing its indigenous Palestinians and transforming it into “the Riviera of the Middle East,” Arab leaders held on March 4 an extraordinary summit meeting in Cairo to discuss and endorse a rival Egyptian plan for the enclave’s reconstruction. The Egyptian plan proposes to rebuild Gaza in phases without displacing the Palestinians.

Jan 16, 2025 | arabcenterdc.org | Heba Gowayed

On December 8, the Syrian armed resistance group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) brought the Assad regime to an abrupt end after more than 54 years of brutal rule. HTS’s victory came 14 years after the start of a civil war that claimed the lives of an estimated 618,000 people and displaced some 13 million, about half of whom were forced to flee Syria to escape the violence. Now the fate of the millions of Syrians who sought refuge outside their country is in question.

Dec 10, 2024 | arabcenterdc.org | Heba Gowayed |Imad K. Harb |Khalil E. Jahshan |Bahraa Hijazi

A coalition of Syrian opposition forces took control of Syria’s capital on December 8, 2024, ending more than 60 years of Baath Party rule in the country. Just as important, the fall of Damascus marked the end of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, who inherited the presidency from his father Hafez al-Assad in 2000.

Dec 10, 2024 | arabcenterdc.org | Heba Gowayed |Imad K. Harb |Bahraa Hijazi |Khalil E. Jahshan

A coalition of Syrian opposition forces took control of Syria’s capital on December 8, 2024, ending more than 60 years of Baath Party rule in the country. Just as important, the fall of Damascus marked the end of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, who inherited the presidency from his father Hafez al-Assad in 2000.

Oct 22, 2024 | arabcenterdc.org | Heba Gowayed

In April 2023, violence broke out in Sudan’s capital Khartoum in a power struggle between Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The RSF was once a unit in the SAF that grew out of the Janjaweed, the notorious militia that committed ethnic cleansing in Darfur on behalf of the Sudanese government in 2003.