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3 weeks ago | 
arabcenterdc.org | Imad K. Harb
On April 13, 2025, the Lebanese, to the day, commemorated the 50th anniversary of the start of Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war that, with hindsight, can be seen as the seminal event in the life of the country and the surrounding region.
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1 month ago | 
arabcenterdc.org | Imad K. Harb
Sudan’s ‘war of the generals’ between the Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti) will complete its second year this April 15 without definite signs of ending. Battle lines have shifted dramatically over the last few months in favor of the SAF, but so far this has not pointed to Burhan’s imminent and complete victory or to Dagalo’s withdrawal from the fight or his final defeat.
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2 months 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.
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2 months ago | 
arabcenterdc.org | Imad K. Harb
US President Donald Trump appears to have developed different ideas about Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi upon whom he bestowed the moniker “favorite dictator” during the 2019 G-7 meeting in France. At the time, the 45th president of the United States had developed a cordial relationship with the general-turned-president who six years earlier had staged a coup against Islamist President Mohamed Morsi and thwarted Egypt’s democratic experiment.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Imad K. Harb
The election on January 9, 2025, of the Lebanese Army Commander Joseph Aoun as the fourteenth president of Lebanon can very well be the inauguration of the Lebanese Third Republic, a development that could usher in a new politics for the country.
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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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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.
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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.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Imad K. Harb
The ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Lebanon on November 27 was a welcome development after 14 months of skirmishes between the Israeli Army and Hezbollah, tit-for-tat attacks, and devastating bombardment campaigns that destroyed areas near and far from the Lebanon-Israel border.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Yara Asi |Imad K. Harb |Khalil E. Jahshan |Tamara Kharroub
The election of former President Donald Trump after losing the 2020 round to President Joe Biden is likely to go down in the annals of American history as a monumental event that will have serious consequences for the United States. Following his defeat in 2020, Trump vowed to return to the Oval Office to exact revenge on those he deemed to be personal and political enemies.
