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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 21, 2024 | 
timep.org | Mohaned Elnour |Zeead Yaghi
In April 2023, Samira* was finalizing preparations for her wedding when her neighborhood near Khartoum was attacked by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The ceremony was postponed, in hopes for a swift end of the fighting. But the war continued. Little did Samira know that the worst was yet to come.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
timep.org | Zeead Yaghi |Drew Mikhael |Douglas Christensen
In light of the recent and alarming escalation of indiscriminate and widespread Israeli attacks across Lebanon, we, the undersigned organizations, call on the international community to unequivocally press for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging cross-border fire since October 2023. For nearly a year, the fighting between the two parties was mostly contained to the border regions of Lebanon and Israel.
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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 12, 2024 | 
timep.org | Zeead Yaghi |Mohaned Elnour
Ever since Israel escalated its war on Hezbollah and Lebanon in mid-September and opened a flood of strikes, air raids, and fire on Lebanon’s cities and towns, the cost of the war has skyrocketed. As of November 12, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health has recorded over 3,243 individuals killed by Israel’s aggression, and another 14,134 injured.
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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 25, 2024 | 
timep.org | Zeead Yaghi |Kassem Mnejja |Justin Salhani |Noura Aljizawi
558 dead. That was the official number given by Firass Abiad, the Minister of Health for the Lebanese government on the morning of September 24, 2024. 558 people were killed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in a single day as it ramped up its bombing campaign across Lebanon. More have been killed since—at least 51 at the time of writing on September 25.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
timep.org | Hussein Baoumi |Ibrahim Ezzeldin |Zeead Yaghi |Sahar Mechmech
In March 2024, European leaders traveled to Cairo to announce a $8.2 billion deal to bolster Egypt’s economy, marking a “golden age” for relations between the bloc and the North African nation, according to the EU’s neighborhood commissioner. The deal involved the EU providing Cairo with loans and grants to support the economy, along with inviting European investments to the country.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
timep.org | Ibrahim Ezzeldin |Zeead Yaghi |Hussein Baoumi
It only took a few hours for bulldozers to turn the homes in Ein El-Seirah, a poor neighborhood in southern Cairo, into rubble. Along the roadside, women stood holding their children’s hands, helpless, as a dealer haggled with some residents over the purchase of their discarded furniture at a pittance.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
timep.org | Michelle Eid |Jad El Dilati |Zeead Yaghi |Yara Asi
In December 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that if Hezbollah were to “start an all-out war, then it will single-handedly turn Beirut and South Lebanon…into Gaza and Khan Yunis.” Against the backdrop of the war on Gaza, which many experts have stated amounts to genocide, Netanyahu’s statement was a stark warning for those living in Lebanon.
