Alia El Mahdi
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Syrians in Lebanon: A Mobility Crisis
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Covid-19 stopped the motion of many around the world. A drastic decline in airline passengers grounded planes. Cars used for commuting to work sat parked with nearly full gas tanks.…
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Qatar-UAE as rivals in the Horn of Africa
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One effect of the rift between Qatar and its GCC neighbours Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE has been the exportation of this division since 2017. Emirati and Saudi allies…
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Security as strategy? Israeli Arab Gulf states alignment
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A few months after the Abraham accords were signed between Israel, Bahrain and the UAE, the Pentagon announced the transfer of command oversight of Israel from the US European Command…
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Uzbekistan’s economic challenges under President Mirziyoyev
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For 25 years after independence in 1991, Uzbekistan was ruled by the former First Secretary of the Uzbek Soviet Republic, Islam Karimov. Karimov’s rule was characterized by ruthless political leadership…
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Third restart? Kyrgyzstan’s latest ‘revolution’
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Protesting parties were a diverse crowd, from the liberal Reforma, to the market-liberal BirBol, the liberal-socialist Ata-Meken, the conservative Mekenchil, the radical Chon Kazat, the religious Yiman Nuru, and others…
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Iran in a Shifting US Foreign Policy
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Following Biden’s election as President of the United States, many officials who served under the Obama administration returned to senior positions. With them, they brought familiar approaches to the same…
