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The dust settles in Doha after the latest Israeli attack in the region. Photo by Jacqueline Penney / AFPTV /AFP via Getty Images

September 10, 2025

Israeli strike in Doha crosses a new line from which relations with Gulf may not recover

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University

Gulf nations were already becoming anxious about Israel’s apparently unconstrained regional activities. Now, a one-time thaw in relations may revert to a deep freeze.

The list of countries involved in ongoing hostilities is widening. Keith Binns via Getty Images

September 9, 2024

Is it time to retire the ‘Arab‑Israeli conflict’? Hostilities now extend beyond those boundaries

Nader Habibi, Brandeis University

America and Iran are now just as much a part of the decadeslong conflict as Arab states. Is it time to start referring to the ‘MENA-ISRAME’ conflict?

U.S. President Harry Truman holds a Torah given to him by Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, in May 1948. Bettmann via Getty Images

November 29, 2023

A brief history of the US‑Israel ‘special relationship’ shows how connections have shifted since long before the 1948 founding of the Jewish state

Fayez Hammad, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

A historian of the Middle East examines the decades-old ‘special relationship’ between Israel and the US.

U.S. President Donald Trump walks to the Abraham Accords signing ceremony at the White House on Sept. 15, 2020, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

October 11, 2020

How the Abraham Accords could create real peace in the Middle East

Edmund Adam, University of Toronto

Opportunities for dramatic change rarely arise in the Middle East. But now is such a time.

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