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The School of Global Affairs and Public Policy prepares its graduates to take the lead in shaping the future of their nations and the world at large, with a strong belief in the interaction of international and public affairs, an unwavering commitment to ethics and the rule of law, and a recognition of the unique role that the media play in shaping public policy.
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• May 01, 2025 UNRWA Funding is Burdened with Conditionality
  By: Anne Irfan
• May 01, 2025 UNRWA After October 7: Building a Comprehensive Response Framework for Palestinian Refugees
  By: Lex Takkenberg
• May 01, 2025 Navigating the Politics of Humanitarian Aid in Gaza
  By: Shatha Abdulsamad
• May 01, 2025 Bridging Local and Global Assistance for Palestinian Refugees in Egypt
  By: Maysa Ayoub
• May 01, 2025 Death or Detention: Israel’s Attacks on Journalism Follow a Lethal Pattern
  By: Jodie Ginsberg
• May 01, 2025 The Gendering of Sudan’s Brutal War
  By: Nafisa Bedri, Tamsin Bradley
• May 01, 2025 Time to Renew an Old Promise? A Brief History of Global South Solidarity with Palestine
  By: Bidisha Biswas
• May 01, 2025 Children’s “Right to Play” In Gaza
  By: Ana Davis
• May 01, 2025 In Targeting UNRWA, Israel Aims to Destroy the Right of Return
  By: Daoud Kuttab
• January 01, 2024 Is There Hope for Gaza Under International Law?
  By: Abigail Flynn
• January 01, 2024 The EU’s Response to the Gaza War Is a Tale of Contradiction and Division
  By: Martin Konečný
• January 01, 2024 How American Public Opinion on Palestine Shifted
  By: Geneive Abdo
• January 01, 2024 A Palestinian Gandhi or an Israeli de Gaulle? Why the Context of Violence Matters
  By: Sharif Elmusa
• January 01, 2024 Israel’s Ever-Existing Plan to Depopulate the Gaza Strip
  By: Nadia Naser-Najjab
• January 01, 2024 Security and Peace After the War in Gaza
  By: Ibrahim Awad
• January 01, 2024 Covering the Palestinian–Israeli Conflict: Between Exasperation and Empathy
  By: Lawrence Pintak
• January 01, 2024 A Revived Arab Peace Initiative from Saudi Arabia Could Save the Middle East
  By: Aziz Alghashian
• January 01, 2024 Hamas, ISIL, and Israel: An Exercise in Comparison
  By: Ayman Zaineldine
• January 01, 2024 Gaza: Israel’s Unwinnable War
  By: Richard Silverstein
• January 01, 2024 Radicalization and Regional Instability: Effects of the Gaza War
  By: Mamoun Fandy
• January 01, 2024 Genocide on the Docket at the Hague
  By: Omar Auf
• September 01, 2023 We Downplayed the Signs of Peace, Then Downplayed the Signs of War
  By: Yossi Alpher
• September 01, 2023 United States Diplomacy and the 1973 War
  By: Daniel C. Kurtzer
• September 01, 2023 Israel and the United States Did Not See the 1973 War Coming
  By: Zaki Shalom
• September 01, 2023 Shifting Tides: Egypt’s Unexpected Path After the 1973 War
  By: Ali E. Hillal Dessouki
• September 01, 2023 The 1973 October War and the Soviet Union
  By: Vitaly Naumkin, Vasily Kuznetsov
• September 01, 2023 Miscalculations and Legacies: A Look Back at the 1973 War Half a Century On
  By: David Makovsky
• May 17, 2023 The Future of Water in MENA is at Stake
  By: Malak Altaeb
• May 17, 2023 Could the Future of Work be Green? Two Plot Twists
  By: Ghada Barsoum
• May 17, 2023 When Consensus Is Reached
  By: Miguel Ruiz Cabañas
• May 17, 2023 A Bank of Actions: Making Good on Losses and Damages
  By: Arunabha Ghosh
• May 17, 2023 COP27 and the Sustainable City: Global Climate Solution or Mirage?
  By: Patrick J. Bohlen
• May 17, 2023 Good to the Last Drop
  By: Thomas L. Crisman, Zachary S. Winters
• January 18, 2023 What Losing the Iran Deal Could Mean for the Region
  By: Seyed Hossein Mousavian
• January 18, 2023 Navigating R2P Between Norm and Practice
  By: Omar Auf
• January 18, 2023 Democratizing International Relations
  By: Antonio de Aguiar Patriota
• January 18, 2023 Strategic Survival in Syria
  By: Omar Abu Layla
• January 17, 2023 Fortune and Hazard for Algeria
  By: Zine Labidine Ghebouli
• September 19, 2022 Building a Seaport in Gaza: Prospects, Challenges, and Opportunities
  By: Omar Shaban
• September 15, 2022 Why Climate Journalism Must be Mainstreamed in the Arab World
  By: Sarah El-Shaarawi
• September 14, 2022 When Western media frames the Middle East in terms of sectarianism, not only does it do a grave disservice to its audience, but also to the people of this region, with far-reaching consequences
  By: Abdullah Hamidaddin
• September 12, 2022 Social Change Will Be Tweeted—By a Select Few
  By: Nadine El-Sayed
• September 12, 2022 Red Lines in Global Media
  By: Khaled Ezzelarab
• September 01, 2022 A Palestinian Outlet to the World, A Path toward Peace? Considerations and Options for a Gaza Seaport
  By: Asaf Ashar, Joel Singer
• January 01, 2022 The Changing Middle East Regional Order
  By: Paul Salem
• January 01, 2022 Managing Crises, the Least-Bad Option
  By: Joost Hiltermann
• January 01, 2022 Arab Nationalism, Regionalism, and Regional Integration
  By: Ibrahim Awad
• January 01, 2022 From Political Islam to the Politics of Islam
  By: Nathan Brown
• January 01, 2022 Shifting Patterns of Arab Politics
  By: Lisa Anderson
• January 01, 2022 AlMostaqbal: Envisioning a Better Arab Future
  By: American University in Cairo School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
• January 01, 2022 The End of the Road
  By: Khaled Elgindy
• January 01, 2022 s It Time to Bury the Two-State Solution?
  By: Hesham Youssef
• January 01, 2022 Framing the Partition Plan for Palestine
  By: Lorenzo Kamel
• January 01, 2022 Prepping for COP27
  By: Thomas L. Crisman, David Dumke, Zachary S. Winters
• January 01, 2022 Competing Economic Visions in the Gulf
  By: Robert Mogielnicki
• October 01, 2021 Young People Are Leading Climate Activism in the Middle East
  By: Neeshad Shafi
• October 01, 2021 Climate Change and the Global South: The Case of Africa
  By: Agnes Babugura
• October 01, 2021 The U.N. Climate Summit and Its Aftermath
  By: Nabil Fahmy
• October 01, 2021 Saving a Water-Stressed Middle East
  By: Neda Zawahri
• October 01, 2021 Who Feels Climate Anxiety?
  By: Sarah Jaquette Ray
• October 01, 2021 Locked-in Emissions: The Climate Change Arms Trade
  By: Wendela de Vries
• October 01, 2021 A Climate Crisis in Africa: The Case of South Sudan
  By: Nhial Tiitmamer
• October 01, 2021 The Slow Violence of Climate Change
  By: Garret Barnwell, Savo Heleta
• October 01, 2021 A New Water Paradigm for Sub-Saharan Africa
  By: Djiby Thiam
• September 04, 2021 Covid-19’s Not Through With Us Yet
  By: Dahr Jamail
• September 03, 2021 The Climate Crisis Needs a Global Green New Deal
  By: Ariana Bennett
• August 01, 2021 African Podcasting: Challenges and Chances
  By: Kim Fox, Josephine Karianjahi
• August 01, 2021 The Renaissance Dam after the Security Council
  By: Nabil Fahmy
• August 01, 2021 More than a Monolith
  By: Ariana Bennett
• August 01, 2021 A Pandemic of Vaccine and Technology Hoarding: Unmasking Global Inequality and Hypocrisy
  By: Lauren Paremoer
• August 01, 2021 Africa is Climbing the Prosperity Ladder but Some Rungs are Broken
  By: Musaazi Namiti
• August 01, 2021 The Long Road to African Tourism Recovery
  By: Helmo Preuss
• August 01, 2021 Millions of People Continue to be Forcibly Displaced in Africa
  By: Maysa Ayoub
• August 01, 2021 In Malawi, the battle to save mangoes
  By: Charles Mkoka
• August 01, 2021 A New Water Paradigm for Sub-Saharan Africa
  By: Djiby Thiam
• June 21, 2021 This Watershed Moment for the Land(s) between the River and the Sea
  By: Richard Silverstein
• May 01, 2021 Yemen’s Peace Process: A Path to Conflict?
  By: Abdullah Hamidaddin
• May 01, 2021 The Rise of the United Arab Emirates
  By: Abdullkhaleq Abdulla
• May 01, 2021 Maintaining the U.S.-Saudi Relationship
  By: Hussein Ibish
• May 01, 2021 Solving the Nuclear Stalemate between Iran and the United States
  By: Gawdat Bahgat
• May 01, 2021 The End of Corporate Janissaries in the Gulf
  By: Muhammad Al-Ubayadi
• May 01, 2021 The Long Road to Economic Transformation in the Gulf
  By: Nader Kabbani
• May 01, 2021 Iran and the GCC: Prospects for a Grand Reconciliation
  By: Sharmine Narwani
• May 01, 2021 The UAE Art Scene: Challenges and Opportunities
  By: Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
• May 01, 2021 Summers of Strife: From Libya to Ethiopia
  By: Nabil Fahmy
• April 28, 2021 Transforming Domestic Extremism in the United States
  By: Chris Bosley
• April 28, 2021 Shaping Africa’s New Normal
  By: Amina Abdel-Halim
• April 20, 2021 Women and Children First
  By: Elena Habersky
• February 25, 2021 Explaining Egypt’s January 2011 Revolution between Conspiracy and Conventional Wisdom
  By: Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid
• February 25, 2021 Africa and the United States: Reengaging with Africa’s Prosperity in Mind
  By: Carl Manlan
• February 25, 2021 Does the Biden Administration Have Time for Foreign Policy?
  By: Basant Samhout
• February 25, 2021 Why the Phrase “Arab Spring” Should be Retired
  By: Sean David Hobbs
• February 25, 2021 Messages to America
  By: Nabil Fahmy
• February 25, 2021 “Reconciliation” in the Communiqué of the Gulf Cooperation Council
  By: Ibrahim Awad
• February 25, 2021 The Future of Work: Between Technology and Inequality
  By: Dania El Akkawi
• February 25, 2021 Funding Feminism: Grantmaking for Women’s Rights
  By: Sydney Wise
• February 25, 2021 Can the Arab Region meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030?
  By: Mourad Wahba
• February 25, 2021 A Visualization of Egypt’s Economic Performance During COVID-19
  By: Omar Auf
• February 25, 2021 The Iran Nuclear Deal: A Springboard for a New Middle East Security Architecture
  By: Nabil Fahmy
• February 25, 2021 Breaking the Historic Taboo
  By: Allison Hodgkins
• February 25, 2021 Leading Israel into an Empty Future
  By: Richard Silverstein
• February 25, 2021 The Arab World Between Regime Change and Political Reform
  By: Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid
• February 24, 2021 What to Expect from Biden in the Middle East
  By: William B. Quandt
• October 20, 2020 What does a Trump or Biden presidency mean for Israel and Palestine?
  By: Khaled Elgindy
• October 05, 2020 Arabs Try to Make Sense of What is Happening in the United States
  By: Dania El Akkawi
• September 01, 2020 The U.S.–Middle East Future: In the Face of Fatigue
  By: Sydney Wise
• September 01, 2020 Explaining How Washington and the Election Works
  By: Sean David Hobbs
• September 01, 2020 Sustainable Humanism Needed
  By: Peter J. Jacques
• September 01, 2020 Abortion and the Political Futures of Women’s Rights
  By: Andrew Delatolla
• September 01, 2020 Anatomy of a Revolution
  By: Sydney Wise
• September 01, 2020 Resisting the Tide of Bigotry
  By: Jonathan Weisman
• September 01, 2020 The World Is Watching the United States
  By: Diana Bartelli Carlin
• August 21, 2020 The EU and the Med: Is Geography Still Destiny?
  By: James Moran
• June 28, 2020 Climate Change and COVID-19: There Is More Than One Curve to Flatten
  By: Dania El Akkwai
• June 21, 2020 Re-Engineering Regional Security
  By: Sydney Wise
• June 15, 2020 Annexation Makes No Policy Sense
  By: Daniel C. Kurtzer
• June 15, 2020 Enhancing Mediterranean Integration
  By: Blanca Moreno-Dodson
• June 15, 2020 The Disrupting Stabilizer
  By: Samuel Ramani
• June 15, 2020 Strategizing Toward Irrelevance in Libya
  By: Alessia Melcangi
• June 15, 2020 Greece’s Resource Blessing Comes with Hurdles
  By: Antonia Dimou
• June 15, 2020 Gas Finds for the People?
  By: Jason Beckett
• June 15, 2020 The Prospects for Conflict or Cooperation
  By: Henri J. Barkey, Ellen Laipson
• June 15, 2020 Turkey’s Energy Geopolitics
  By: Meliha Benli Altunisik
• June 15, 2020 Reluctant Power Europe
  By: Kevin Koehler
• June 10, 2020 Will China’s E-commerce Reshape a Reopening World?
  By: Cheng Li, Ryan McElveen
• May 29, 2020 COVID-19: Lessons from the Black Death
  By: Peter L. Larson
• May 13, 2020 Egypt’s Most Vulnerable and COVID-19
  By: Elena Habersky
• March 01, 2020 Society 5.0 and the Future Economies
  By: Hesham Dinana
• March 01, 2020 A Question of Delivery
  By: Ahmed Taher
• March 01, 2020 A Surplus of Deficits
  By: Amr Adly
• March 01, 2020 It is Time to Establish a Middle East Regional Security System
  By:
• March 01, 2020 Can Arab Cities Be Eco-Sustainable?
  By: David Sims
• January 01, 2020 Trash Sorters: Entrepreneurs in Africa
  By: Carl Manlan
• January 01, 2020 How Sudan Transitions
  By: Hamid Eltgani Ali
• January 01, 2020 Toward Arab Food Security
  By: Natasha Banks, M. Anis Salem
• January 01, 2020 Edge of Survival
  By: Peter J. Jacques
• January 01, 2020 Averting a Total Collapse
  By: Thomas L. Crisman
• January 01, 2020 Striving for Water and Food Security
  By: Omer Karasapan
• January 01, 2020 No Land in Paraguay
  By: William Costa
• January 01, 2020 Seeds of Gulf-Africa Agribusiness
  By: Sarah Townsend