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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

Tag: Russia

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

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

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - AUGUST 24: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with fellow Brics leaders pose for a family photo with new Bric members at the last day of the Brics summit fellow leaders president, Xi Jinping, China's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president, Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, and Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, Iranian president is Ebrahim Raisi, on the closing day of the BRICS summit at the Sandton Convention Center in the Sandton district of Johannesburg on August 24, 2023, South Africa. The Brics summit, held in South Africa between 22-24 August 2023. Brics is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. New Members are Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia. Some of the things are discussed during the summit is if to expand Brics and accept new members like Saudi Arabia and Iran, and a Brics currency. Vladimir Putin wanted to attend the meetings but South African president Cyril Ramaphosa managed to talk him out of it, as he risked being arrested while in in South Africa, as the ICC, International Criminal Court has issued a warrant of arrest for Mr. Putin's on suspicion of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

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Turkish Support for Ukraine Reflects a New Black Sea

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Why the UAE Wants to Be Club Med for the World's Kleptocrats

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The Ukraine War's Impacts in the Middle East: A Democracy in Exile Roundtable

ISTANBUL, TURKIYE - MARCH 29: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks ahead of the peace talks between delegations from Russia and Ukraine at Dolmabahce Presidential Office in Istanbul, Turkiye on March 29, 2022. (Photo by Arda Kucukkaya/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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What the War in Ukraine Reveals About Turkey and the Arab Spring

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How Ukraine Is Clarifying the Costs of America's Middle East Alliances

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