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Beirut River
Interviews 

Dying of thirst: The Levant’s water worries

February 14, 2017February 15, 2017 0 Comments Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Numan Aksoy, Renaissance Dam, water

Water is the cornerstone of human life – but what happens to countries when they start running out of “blue gold”?

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Separation wall
Analysis 

Israel-Palestine: Can Trump seal the deal?

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017 0 Comments Benjamin Netanyahu, David Friedman, Donald Trump, Hamas, Husam Zomlot, Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, Nadim Houssain, Naftali Bennett, Palestine, settlements, West Bank

Trump prides himself on his deal-making abilities, but securing “the ultimate deal” between Israelis and Palestinians presents major challenges.

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Satellite view of the Middle East
Op-Ed 

The glass half empty: Water in the Middle East

February 12, 2017February 12, 2017 0 Comments Bilal Choudary, climate change, Egypt, global warming, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, water management

The Middle East is an arid region to begin with, but climate change is set to exacerbate the region’s water scarcity.

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Middle East Weekly podcast
Podcast 

Podcast: Trump’s Jerusalem embassy move and Tunisia’s foreign fighters

January 18, 2017 0 Comments foreign fighters, ISIL, Israel, Jerusalem, Middle East Weekly, Palestine, Trump, Tunisia

Middle East Weekly discusses Trump’s pledge to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, and Tunisian jihadis returning home after fighting in Syria and Iraq.

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Russian military in Syria
Analysis 

Russia, Syria, and the ‘new Cold War’

December 18, 2016December 28, 2016 1 Comment Aleppo, Antonio Perra, Bashar al-Assad, EU, Iran, ISIS, Israel, NATO, Russia, Syria, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

Russia intervened in the Syrian war to redefine the international balance of power, not as a brotherly commitment to defend his Arab ally.

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Ofra and Amona settlements
Interviews 

Israel’s controversial ‘settlement bill’: A conversation with Richard Falk

December 1, 2016 0 Comments Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Israel, Knesset, Naftali Bennett, Oslo accords, Palestine, Richard Falk, Sam Bollier, settlements, West Bank

Embed from Getty Images  Israeli riot police clashed with settlers living in the Amona “outpost” settlement in 2006   A

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Event Review 

‘This was a story that had to be told’:  Sold-out crowd at Palestine Film Festival

October 18, 2016March 8, 2017 0 Comments Arab Israelis, Film, Israel, Israel and Palestine, prisoner

  Boston’s Palestine Film Festival, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, opened on Friday, October 15 with a timely, searing showing

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