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KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - JULY 10: A woman holds a baby in her arms as Palestinian families begin fleeing again from shelters near the Al-Mawasi area as the Israeli army expands its ground offensive and tanks reach southwestern Khan Yunis, Gaza, marking their first displacement in nearly a year and a half, on July 10, 2025. (Photo by Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

What Gazans Want from a Ceasefire

KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - DECEMBER 4: Palestinian teacher Doha al-Attar (30) is viewed with her students as she continues to teach them in the rubble of her school, which was mostly destroyed in the Israeli army attacks in Khan Yunis, Gaza on December 4, 2024. Despite the limited and difficult conditions, teacher Attar strives to ensure that her students are not deprived of education. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Dreams Beneath the Rubble: A Student's Resistance in Gaza

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 22: People protest the involvement of the U.S. in Israel's war against Iran near the Wilshire Federal Building on June 22, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. The Trump administration has bombed Iran with the largest B-2 bomber strike in U.S. history without obtaining Congressional approval. The anti-war protest comes as daily protests reacting to a series of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids escalated after President Trump authorized military forces to protect federal property against the wishes of city and state officials. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

A Region Holding Its Breath: After the Israel-Iran War

KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - JULY 10: A woman holds a baby in her arms as Palestinian families begin fleeing again from shelters near the Al-Mawasi area as the Israeli army expands its ground offensive and tanks reach southwestern Khan Yunis, Gaza, marking their first displacement in nearly a year and a half, on July 10, 2025. (Photo by Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

What Gazans Want from a Ceasefire

BEIRUT, LEBANON - SEPTEMBER 26: A former domestic worker hangs her laundry to dry on September 26, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon accounts some 250,000 migrant women from African and Asian countries and working in private households. Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are subjected to the kafala system, a private migration sponsorship system in Gulf countries which exponentially increases the risk of labour exploitation, forced labour and trafficking. Lebanon's economic crisis as well the August 4 blast has left a significant number of migrant workers in a humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Aline Deschamps/Getty Images)

Gulf — Fiction as Testimony to Middle East Injustice

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 22: People protest the involvement of the U.S. in Israel's war against Iran near the Wilshire Federal Building on June 22, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. The Trump administration has bombed Iran with the largest B-2 bomber strike in U.S. history without obtaining Congressional approval. The anti-war protest comes as daily protests reacting to a series of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids escalated after President Trump authorized military forces to protect federal property against the wishes of city and state officials. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

A Region Holding Its Breath: After the Israel-Iran War

KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - JULY 10: A woman holds a baby in her arms as Palestinian families begin fleeing again from shelters near the Al-Mawasi area as the Israeli army expands its ground offensive and tanks reach southwestern Khan Yunis, Gaza, marking their first displacement in nearly a year and a half, on July 10, 2025. (Photo by Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

What Gazans Want from a Ceasefire

BEIRUT, LEBANON - SEPTEMBER 26: A former domestic worker hangs her laundry to dry on September 26, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon accounts some 250,000 migrant women from African and Asian countries and working in private households. Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are subjected to the kafala system, a private migration sponsorship system in Gulf countries which exponentially increases the risk of labour exploitation, forced labour and trafficking. Lebanon's economic crisis as well the August 4 blast has left a significant number of migrant workers in a humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Aline Deschamps/Getty Images)

Gulf — Fiction as Testimony to Middle East Injustice

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TOPSHOT - US President-elect Joe Biden participates in a virtual meeting with the United States Conference of Mayors at the Queen in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 23, 2020. - US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named the deeply experienced Antony Blinken for secretary of state, also nominating the first female head of intelligence and a czar for climate issues, with a promise to a return to expertise after the turbulent years of Donald Trump. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Ending the Yemen War: President Biden Should Deny Arms to the UAE and Saudi Arabia on Day One

December 3, 2020

The New Saudi Ambassador to Norway Ignored Reports of Torture

December 2, 2020

Tunisian lawyer Radhia Nasraoui (C) Samar Badawi (R) , wife of Saudi-Arabian lawyer and human rights activist Waleed Abu al-Khair, receive the Olof Palme Prize 2013, awarded by Lisbet Palme (L) at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, Sweden on January 25, 2013. The Olof Palme Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding achievement in the spirit of late Olof Palme and consists of a diploma and 75,000 US dollars. AFP PHOTO / ANDERS WIKLUND / SCANPIX/ SWEDEN OUT (Photo credit should read ANDERS WIKLUND/AFP via Getty Images)

DAWN joins global coalition of rights groups to demand release of Saudi women's rights defenders

November 25, 2020

A Saudi Arabian flag flies behind barbed wires at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on October 12, 2018. - Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Britain expressed concern about the fate of a journalist who vanished after entering its Istanbul consulate last week.But Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf al Saud told the BBC he needed to wait for the results of an investigation before commenting further about Jamal Khashoggi's fate. (Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP) (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Has Khashoggi's Death Exposed the Saudi Paper Leviathan?

November 19, 2020

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Democracy In Exile

Why Political Reform is Inevitable in Saudi Arabia

November 17, 2020

Protest in front of Medicine Syndicate in Cairo, Egypt, on March 30, 2017 in solidarity 22-year-old imprisoned student, Ahmed el-Khatib, who is suffering from an illness brought on by unsanitary prison conditions. He is one of an estimated 60,000 political prisoners in Egypts jails, many of whom are sick but are denied medical treatment. (Photo by Ibrahim Ezzat/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Stability or Democracy: the Same Old Question for Egypt

November 12, 2020

WASHINGTON, USA - NOVEMBER 3: Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of the Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch testifies during a Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing on Human Rights in Egypt in Washington, USA on November 3, 2015. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

DAWN's Sarah Leah Whitson Testifies on Saudi Arabia before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission

November 11, 2020

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - NOVEMBER 09: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks to the media while flanked by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, at the Queen Theater after receiving a briefing from the transition COVID-19 advisory board on November 09, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Mr. Biden spoke about how his administration would respond to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Biden Administration Should Reassess US Interests and Lead by Example in Middle East

November 10, 2020

Democracy In Exile

We will not allow Khashoggi's killers to evade justice

October 23, 2020

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