Tamara Kharroub

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.

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.

Sep 30, 2024 | arabcenterdc.org | Tamara Kharroub |Ethan Mayer-Rich

I. Legislative Branch1) LegislationBipartisan House Bill Would Block Donations from Nations Accused of Supporting Terrorism. On September 24, Reps. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) introduced H.R.9793, the “No Foreign Gifts Act,” which would require higher education institutions to receive approval from the US Secretary of State for foreign donations, or risk losing federal funding.

Sep 30, 2024 | arabcenterdc.org | Tamara Kharroub

On the evening of 27 September, Israel launched one of its biggest attacks on Lebanon since it stepped up operations on its northern front. The assault targeted Hezbollah’s central command in Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburb with intensive airstrikes that leveled six residential towers and assassinated Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. The organization confirmed his killing in a statement the following day.

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.