Nabeel Khoury

Nov 19, 2024 | arabcenterdc.org | Nabeel Khoury

The foundations of President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy are now taking shape.

Sep 30, 2024 | arabcenterdc.org | Tamara Kharroub |Nabeel Khoury

Israel’s killing of Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah has shocked many in Lebanon and the region regardless of what they thought of the man and his organization. As a personality, Nasrallah’s charisma was arguably equal to that of late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose defeat in the 1967 war and death in 1970 sent shock waves throughout the Arab world.

May 2, 2024 | arabcenterdc.org | Nabeel Khoury

Israel’s still unfolding war on Gaza is finishing its seventh month with no let-up in sight. The Palestinian death toll from Israeli operations 34,000 while close to 78,000 have been injured. More than 80 percent of Gaza’s population, 1.9 million, have been displaced. At least 62 percent of homes, almost 300,000, have been rendered uninhabitable, and damage to infrastructure stands at some $18.5 billion.

Feb 1, 2024 | arabcenterdc.org | Nabeel Khoury

On January 17, the Biden administration announced it was adding Yemen’s Houthis (also called Ansar Allah) to the US terrorist list. The move returned the rebel group to the category applied by the Trump administration but lifted by President Joe Biden soon after he took office. On January 12, American and British naval forces attacked Ansar Allah sites and assets following three weeks of their assaults on commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

Jan 3, 2024 | arabcenterdc.org | Nabeel Khoury

The phrase “Pivot to the East,” popularized during the Obama administration, signified a realization of the rising importance of China and of growing US interests in the Far East, and therefore the need to pay less attention to the Middle East and more to carefully calibrating the relationship with China. The pivot idea represented President Barack Obama’s desire to end US military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan and dedicate more diplomatic effort and resources to the Pacific Rim nations.