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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.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
timep.org | Mostafa Al-a'sar |Haid Haid |Salma Daoudi
This article is part of a collaborative project between the Arabi Facts Hub (AFH) and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) on misinformation and disinformation in the Arab World. As Egypt faces rough economic conditions that have severely harmed the standard of living for its citizens, the country’s government has shifted part of the blame onto refugees.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
timep.org | Haid Haid |Salma Daoudi |Zeead Yaghi
As Israel’s military offensive in Lebanon intensifies, hundreds of thousands of civilians are fleeing their homes, turning once-vibrant communities into ghost towns. Official estimates suggest that more than 1.2 million people have been displaced since September 23, marking one of the most severe humanitarian crises Lebanon has experienced in decades.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
timep.org | Obai Kurd Ali |Halem Henish |Salma Daoudi
The Egyptian Parliament is discussing a proposed draft to replace the country’s current Criminal Procedures Code that would entrench the dominance of security and prosecutorial agencies, granting them broad powers through vague legal provisions while legitimizing the ongoing violations of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s government.
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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.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
timep.org | Douglas Christensen |Salma Daoudi
On October 9, 2024, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time in nearly two months. In the weeks since they had last spoken, Israel had continued its assault on Gaza, expanded its attacks in the West Bank, and escalated to a full on war on Lebanon. Following the Israeli escalation in Lebanon, Iran launched missiles at Israel, edging dangerously closer to a regional conflict which many had warned about.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
timep.org | Salma Daoudi |Zeead Yaghi
The images of frail children and empty market stalls emerging from Gaza confirm what most local journalists and international organizations have been reporting: famine is rampant across the Strip, with more than 2.1 million Palestinians suffering from acute levels of food insecurity. Over 20 percent of people in Gaza go days without a single meal.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
timep.org | Salma Daoudi |Wafa Mustafa
This article is part of a collaborative project between the Arabi Facts Hub (AFH) and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) on misinformation and disinformation in the Arab World. As Syrians marked the 11th anniversary of the August 21, 2013 deadly chemical attacks on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, disinformation campaigns continue to obscure the deadly legacy of these events.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
timep.org | Salma Daoudi |Hamid Khalafallah |Jessica Doumit |Michelle Eid
As death continues to take many forms and steal an ever-increasing number of lives in Gaza, escaping it merely marks the continuation of a protracted agony. Every act of violence committed by Israeli forces causes irreversible loss, whether financial, social, emotional, or physical. By rendering healthy life unattainable for the large majority of the population, Israel’s military actions do not just debilitate a Palestinian present, but also cripple any chances of a Palestinian future.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
timep.org | Hamid Khalafallah |Salma Daoudi
Since the onset of the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, there has been an array of regional and international peace initiatives aimed at ending it. Still, none have had any noticeable impact on the ground thus far. In fact, the chaotic and disjointed mediation attempts have exacerbated divisions among Sudanese civilian groups and created more room for the belligerents to forum-shop.
