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Jordanian protests: Revisiting the Arab Spring and setting a benchmark

Protests that forced Jordan’s prime minister to resign and laid bare the country’s systemic economic and political crisis shed a new light on the...

King Abdullah of Jordan: Balancing on an ever-tighter tightrope

A look at a decade of failed social, economic and political reform in Jordan goes a far way to explain recent mass anti-government protests...

Palestine and Jordan: An Energy Rebound with Hurdles

Significant gas discoveries in the East Mediterranean over the Gaza marine field can favor economic synergies between Palestine and Israel as well as Palestine...

Israel and Cyprus: Untying the Gordian Knot on East Mediterranean Gas

Gas exploration and drilling activities in Israeli and Cypriot waters along with licensing rounds for blocks near the super-giant Zohr gas field raise the...

Playing with Fire: Israel and its problematic friends solidify ties

Remarks at United Hebrew Congregation, Singapore, 3 October 2017 There are no nice guys in the Middle East, a region that is in the...

‘Alternative Facts’ and Forced Migration: America, Muslim Countries, and the Refugee Crisis

There is an awful lot of emotional kvetching around the recent Trump executive order about banning entry to people from seven specific countries to...

Women, Water and Peace

More than 50 opinion makers and policy makers from the Middle East came together to discuss linkages between women, water and peace in a...

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