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A displaced Palestinian girl walks inside the auditorium in the heavily damaged Islamic University campus where Palestinian families take refuge, in Gaza City, on May 1, 2025. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Education in Gaza: Dreams Lost Amidst the Devastation of Genocide

US President Donald Trump (C) and Vice President JD Vance (R) meet with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

The Decoupling Doctrine: Trump's Middle East Policies Break with Tradition

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, MARYLAND - MAY 12: U.S. Presidåçent Donald Trump boards Air Force One on May 12, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. President Trump is traveling to Saudi Arabia, the first stop on his four-day Middle East visit and the first international trip of his second term. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

DAWN Statement on President Trump's Scheduled Visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE

Tents serve as temporary shelters for displaced Palestinians along the coastline of Gaza City, on June 10, 2025. Detained activists aboard the Gaza-bound aid boat Madleen, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition activist group, are taken to a Tel Aviv airport for deportation, Israel says on June 10, a day after its military navy intercepts their vessel. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Wedad Abed: Combining Journalism, Social Justice, and Advocacy for Palestinians

DAMASCUS, SYRIA - JUNE 02: Activists gather at the Hijaz Railway Square in Damascus, Syria to show support for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and to condemn Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza, on June 02, 2025. (Photo by Bakr Al Kasem/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Can Democracy Survive Genocide and Dictatorship in the Middle East?

A'ALI, BAHRAIN - MARCH 20: Shiite muslims march during a memorial service for a Shiite who was killed when anti-government protesters were violently forced to leave Pearl Square by the military, March 20, 2011 in A'ali, Bahrain. Thousands of Bahrainis have been protesting around the country calling for democratic reforms. (Photo by Jonathan Saruk/Getty Images)

Bahrain's Worsening Authoritarianism Harms Faith In Governance

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Tents serve as temporary shelters for displaced Palestinians along the coastline of Gaza City, on June 10, 2025. Detained activists aboard the Gaza-bound aid boat Madleen, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition activist group, are taken to a Tel Aviv airport for deportation, Israel says on June 10, a day after its military navy intercepts their vessel. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Wedad Abed: Combining Journalism, Social Justice, and Advocacy for Palestinians

DAMASCUS, SYRIA - JUNE 02: Activists gather at the Hijaz Railway Square in Damascus, Syria to show support for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and to condemn Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza, on June 02, 2025. (Photo by Bakr Al Kasem/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Can Democracy Survive Genocide and Dictatorship in the Middle East?

A'ALI, BAHRAIN - MARCH 20: Shiite muslims march during a memorial service for a Shiite who was killed when anti-government protesters were violently forced to leave Pearl Square by the military, March 20, 2011 in A'ali, Bahrain. Thousands of Bahrainis have been protesting around the country calling for democratic reforms. (Photo by Jonathan Saruk/Getty Images)

Bahrain's Worsening Authoritarianism Harms Faith In Governance

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Displaced Palestinians scuffle for a portion of hot food at a charity kitchen in central Gaza City, on May 5, 2025. The humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip worsens significantly since Israel blocks all aid from entering the territory on March 2, days before resuming its military campaign following the collapse of a ceasefire. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

DAWN Statement on UK, France, and Canada Response to Gaza Genocide

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, MARYLAND - MAY 12: U.S. Presidåçent Donald Trump boards Air Force One on May 12, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. President Trump is traveling to Saudi Arabia, the first stop on his four-day Middle East visit and the first international trip of his second term. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

DAWN Statement on President Trump's Scheduled Visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 09: A protester holds a poster of slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh outside the Israeli Embassy on October 09, 2023 in London, United Kingdom. The group is standing in solidarity with the resistance against Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. (Photo by Leila Dougan/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

DAWN Statement on New Information Identifying Shireen Abu Akleh's Killer

DAWN Statement on Morocco's Imprisonment of Activist Mohamed Boustati for Criticizing Saudi Arabia

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 13: A security officer stands in the lobby of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York on the first day of the trial for Joaquin Guzman, the famed Mexican drug lord known as 'El Chapo', November 13, 2018 in New York City. El Chapo is accused of trafficking over 440,000 pounds of cocaine, in addition to other drugs, and exerting power through murders and kidnappings as he led the Sinaloa Cartel. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

New York Federal Court: DAWN Urges Court to Reject Legal Attack on Human Rights Advocacy

Yemeni rescuers transport the bodies of victims pulled from the rubble of a building hit in US strikes in the northern province of Saada on April 28, 2025. Huthi media in Yemen said on April 28 that US strikes targeted a migrant detention centre in Saada, killing at least 68 people. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

DAWN Statement on U.S. Airstrikes in Yemen, Escalating Violence and War Crimes

Jordan Prince Hamzah bin al Hussein delivers his speech during the plenary session at the Bella Center in Copenhagen on December 17, 2009 on the 11th day of the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference. AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK (Photo credit should read ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images)

Jordan: End Arbitrary Confinement of Prince Hamzah

The head of the Ennahdha movement, Rached Ghannouchi, appears before the first investigative judge of the judicial pole for combating terrorism, in order to interrogate him regarding a complaint that was filed against him by one of the security unions in Tunis, Tunisia on February 21, 2023 . (Photo by Yassine Mahjoub/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Tunisia: Release Rached Ghannouchi, Unjustly Imprisoned Political Leader

A picture shows a general view of the Jordanian Parliament before a session aiming to set a date to discuss the Israeli-Jordanian US-brokered solar power for water "declaration of intent" which was signed in Dubai last month, on December 8, 2021. - The parliament session which aimed, among other topics, to set a date to discuss the US-brokered declaration of intent, was postponed till December 13. (Photo by Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP) (Photo by KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images)

Briefing Paper: Jordan's 2024 Parliamentary Elections and the Growing Power of King Abdullah

"How can we progress as a nation when those offering constructive feedback and (often humorous) dissent are banished?"

Jamal Khashoggi

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