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Education in Gaza: Dreams Lost Amidst the Devastation of Genocide

May 30, 2025

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)

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

May 28, 2025

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)

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

May 12, 2025

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)

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

June 11, 2025

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Can Democracy Survive Genocide and Dictatorship in the Middle East?

June 9, 2025

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Bahrain's Worsening Authoritarianism Harms Faith In Governance

June 6, 2025

Amr Al-Azm

Amr Al-Azm is a Syrian archaeologist and professor of Middle East history and anthropology at Shawnee State University in Ohio and the Gulf Studies Center at Qatar University.

Syria After Assad: A Future Beyond Authoritarian Rule?

May 2, 2025

Democracy in Exile brought together Syrian writers and scholars for a wide-ranging discussion about the country’s future after the collapse of the Assad regime.

Can the Taliban and Syria's al-Qaida Offshoot Actually Protect Cultural Heritage?

September 1, 2023

How should international preservationists respond to declarations from extremist groups that they are now supposedly protectors of heritage?

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