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$(L to R) US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting together at Riyadh's Diriyah Palace on February 18, 2025. Top US and Russian diplomats were meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting their countries' fractured relations and making a tentative start on trying to end the Ukraine war. Both sides played down the chances that the first high-level meeting between the countries since US President Donald Trump took office would result in a breakthrough. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP)$

Democracy In Exile

Saudi Arabia Is Now Using Diplomacy, Like Sports, to Whitewash Its Image

April 10, 2025

GAZA CITY, GAZA - APRIL 02: A view of Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza on April 02, 2025. Palestinians in Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza are struggling to survive their daily lives in makeshift tents among the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli attacks. (Photo by Saeed Mohammed/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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DAWN Response to Senate Vote on Arms Sales to Israel

April 4, 2025

Democracy In Exile

Assad's Fall Threatens to Reignite Decades of Sectarian Strife in Northern Lebanon

April 15, 2025

In this aerial photograph, crowds gather to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the uprising against Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad in Homs, late on March 15, 2025. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Returning to Syria, and My City of Homs, After 14 Years of Exile

April 11, 2025

Democracy In Exile

Saudi Arabia Is Now Using Diplomacy, Like Sports, to Whitewash Its Image

April 10, 2025

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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)

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Tunisia: Release Rached Ghannouchi, Unjustly Imprisoned Political Leader

April 17, 2025

Democracy In Exile

Assad's Fall Threatens to Reignite Decades of Sectarian Strife in Northern Lebanon

April 15, 2025

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)

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

April 15, 2025

DAWN's Advocacy

Advocating for Change

DAWN is proud to work with other civil society organizations to change the conduct of foreign actors, to stop supporting and enabling autocratic regimes in the Arab world.

Advocacy

Call for Immediate Release of Ailing 75-Year-Old Political Activist Unjustly Detained in Bahrain

December 13, 2023

NORTHEASTERN SYRIA - MAY 26: U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter gunners scan the desert while transporting troops on May 26, 2021 over northeastern Syria. U.S. forces, part of Task Force WARCLUB operate from remote combat outposts in northeastern Syria, coordinating with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in combatting residual ISIS extremists and deterring pro-Iranian militia. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Advocacy

DAWN joins 26 orgs calling on House to assume its responsibility to end or authorize US military presence in Syria

July 25, 2023

DAWN

US: Impose Khashoggi Ban Sanctions on Saudi Agent Ibrahim Alhussayen

January 18, 2023

Advocacy

Nadeam Elshami, Lobbyist Pushing Weapons Flow to Egyptian Goverment

October 11, 2022

US President Joe Biden waves as he disembarks from Air Force One upon his arrival at the Franz Josef Strauss Airport in Munich, southern Germany on June 25, 2022, on the eve of the G7 summit. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

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U.S.: Six Measures President Biden Should Take During Trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia

July 12, 2022

Advocacy

Rights Groups Renew Call for Freedom of Waleed Abu al-Khair on Eighth Year Anniversary of His Arrest

April 15, 2022

Palestinian queue at stand-pipe to fill plastic containers with clean water in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip 04 September 2007. Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Haim Ramon today threatened to cut electricity, water and fuel supplies into Gaza if militants in the Hamas-ruled territory continued to fire rockets into Israel. AFP PHOTO /MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Advocacy

U.S.: Support Passage of Gaza Reporting Amendment to National Defense Authorization Act

November 16, 2021

Michael Petruzzello is the Managing Director of the international public relations firm Qorvis Communications. He is also a longtime accomplice of the Saudi Arabian government.

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Michael Petruzzello: Managing Director of Qorvis and Longtime Agent for Saudi Arabia

November 9, 2021

Palestinians gather at the Rafah boder crossing as they wait to travel into Egypt after the passage was opened for three days for humanitarian cases, in the southern Gaza Strip April 12, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB (Photo credit should read SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)

Advocacy

International Community Must Reject Designation of 6 Palestinian Organizations as "Terrorist"

October 29, 2021

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"We need to defend the rights of the Arab people to have democracy in our own countries, in our own localities, but at the same time we must speak to foreign leaders, foreign powers and foreign parliamentarians."

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