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March 26, 2017

The US should not just watch North Africa slip into chaos

Curbing US involvement abroad was a signal campaign promise of the new US administration. Anything that smacked of nation-building drew the sharpest criticism.

February 24, 2017

How Iran May Use Iraq to Deflect New U.S. Pressure

Iraq’s grinding war to dislodge the Islamic State from its last Iraqi strongholds has obscured a simmering — and in some respects equally important — political battle in Baghdad.

November 2, 2016

Can Lebanon’s New President Defuse Major Crises?

The Lebanese Parliament’s selection this week of General Michel Aoun as president ends 2 ½ years of a leadership vacuum that mired decision-making on fundamental economic, social and political crises facing Lebanon.

October 23, 2016

Unlocking Refugees Economic Potential

Over the past four years, the Zaatari refugee camp [1] along Jordan’s border with Syria has undergone a jarring transformation. What was once a desolate desert settlement has become a bustling, oddly vibrant city of 80,000.

February 8, 2016

It is not too late to renounce violence and think creatively of a win-win solution

The region today faces riddles that go even beyond the fate of Assad, ISIS and other terrorist groups. It's time for a new approach, Dr. Elie Abouaoun writes.

January 10, 2016

Radio Interview about Syria’s humanitarian crisis

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January 8, 2016

Peace Building in the Middle East

2015 was the year of the further disastrous turn in the Syrian civil war, and the year of the rise of the terror state ISIS. As 2016 begins, what are the prospects, amidst the air strikes, terror and counter-terror attempts, and city-by-city militia battles, for peacemaking in the terror-afflicted states of the Middle East and North Africa?

October 27, 2015

Q&A The Russian Intervention in Syria

Russia's military involvement in Syria has further complicated a four-year-long civil war that the United Nations says has killed more than 250,000 people and driven half the population from their homes.

July 9, 2015

Beating the Islamic State wont fix Iraq problems

The country's extremist problem goes way beyond ISIS. And unless the state fixes its governance troubles, it will have to fight this war all over again

February 24, 2015

Human Rights Organisations in Transition Countries

The paper examines the challenges faced by the human rights organizations in the Arab region. It will focus on those challenges resulting from the radical changes that happened since 2011.

February 17, 2015

The importance of perceptions in civil military relations

In settings where parties to a conflict may interpret their behavior as taking sides, how should humanitarian actors approach civil-military relations?

November 5, 2014

Islamic state & related attacks in Lebanon demand comprehensive response

Attacks by militants in Lebanon backed by an Al-Qaida affiliate and the Islamic State have highlighted again the vulnerability of the country's armed forces to terrorist threats and the political establishment's failure to reach agreement on a military strategy to confront terrorism.

June 17, 2014

Will Politics Deliver More After Military Response This Time?

Just six months ago, I was having a traditional Iraqi dinner with a friend in a building overlooking the Tigris River. But this was no ordinary Iraqi, and our surroundings were hardly luxurious.

May 29, 2014

Q&A: Lebanese Presidential Elections

Lebanon’s parliament failed to elect a successor within the constitutional timeframe before President Michel Suleiman’s term expired on May 25. Elie Abouaoun, the director of Middle East programs for the U.S.