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Will the Arab Reconstruction Plan Overcome Its Implementation Challenges?

Work is underway on a reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip in coordination between Egypt and various Arab countries, and its details are supposed to be presented at the Arab Summit in Cairo, where the Arab countries moved to respond quickly to US President Donald Trump’s proposals regarding the displacement …

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In Syria, Moving Forward Means Looking Back

How Reparations for Assad’s Victims Can Bring Stability to a Broken Country In the months since the militant opposition group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham stunned the world by bringing down the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad in early December 2024, Syria has faced many pressing concerns. The country is ravaged and war-torn. …

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The Case for Partition in Western Sahara

Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is claimed both by the Polisario Front—a rebel group that the UN recognizes as the legitimate representative …

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