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2 months ago | timep.org | Noura Aljizawi |Douglas Christensen |Hamid Khalafallah

December 8, 2024, is a date Syrians will never forget—a day of liberation, marking the end of Bashar al-Assad’s decades-long reign. For the first time since the 2011 uprising, Syrians have begun to imagine a future free from the shadow of authoritarianism. Yet, as the delight of this historic moment fades, a darker reality emerges. Disinformation, a tool the Assad regime had wielded to control narratives and manipulate public opinion, did not disappear with his departure.

Jan 22, 2025 | timep.org | Douglas Christensen |Timothy E. Kaldas |Hamid Khalafallah |Haid Haid

President Trump takes office as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) faces a critical crossroads. The war in Sudan will span into its second US administration and Gaza’s ceasefire has just begun, with worrying indications that it may soon collapse. Lebanon, in the midst of a delicate ceasefire with Israel, faces a difficult political transition following the end of a two-year presidential vacuum.

Jan 14, 2025 | timep.org | Hamid Khalafallah |Haid Haid |Kassem Mnejja |Mohaned Elnour

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. The hopes for a peaceful democratic transition in Sudan were shattered on April 15, 2023, when the country erupted into armed conflict.

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.

Dec 19, 2024 | timep.org | Haid Haid

On December 8, the regime of Bashar al-Assad fell following a rapid rebel offensive across Syria, which lasted less than two weeks. With it, the 54-year rule of the Assad family came to a stunning end. TIMEP spoke to columnist and researcher Haid Haid to understand more and to discuss the transition ahead. Can you explain what happened these past few weeks? How did rebel armed groups manage to overthrow Assad’s regime so quickly after all these years? Why now?