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1 month ago | 
arabcenterdc.org | Khalil E. Jahshan
As the January 15, 2025 ceasefire agreement that had brought limited calm to Gaza fell apart in early March when Israel resumed its air and land military onslaught on the Strip, with Washington’s approval, the fate of the civilian population of the territory remains desperately trapped in President Donald Trump’s policy maelstrom.
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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.
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2 months ago | 
arabcenterdc.org | Khalil E. Jahshan
In his first few weeks back in office, Donald J. Trump delivered his characteristic ‘shock and confusion’ tactics by unleashing dozens of draconian and vindictive executive orders aimed at rescinding scores of executive orders and actions adopted by the Biden administration.
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2 months ago | 
newarab.com | Khalil E. Jahshan
As promised throughout the 2024 presidential election campaign, Donald J. Trump delivered the characteristic 'shock and confusion' tactics he committed to unleash through dozens of draconian and vindictive executive orders aimed at initially rescinding around eighty executive orders and actions adopted by the Biden administration.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Khalil E. Jahshan
After fifteen months of brutal military hostilities in the Gaza Strip, Hamas and Israel finally announced their acceptance of a multi-phased and gradual ceasefire, including a hostage/prisoner exchange deal. The conflict included acts deemed by the International Criminal Court as war crimes and crimes against humanity. Various organizations and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine called Israeli actions in Gaza a genocide.
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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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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.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Imad K. Harb |Khalil E. Jahshan |Tamara Kharroub |Annelle Sheline
October 7, 2024 marks the one-year since the Hamas attack on Israel that killed some 1,200 people and precipitated the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on Gaza that thus far has killed almost 42,000 Palestinians and injured some 96,000 others. It is also a year since Hezbollah began what it called a war of support for Hamas, with the goal of alleviating the pressure on the group and on the Gaza Strip as a whole by attacking Israeli positions on the Lebanon-Israel border.
