Arab Center Washington DC

Nonpartisan research organization dedicated to furthering the political, economic, and social understanding of the Arab world in the United States

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Transitional Justice and Accountability Efforts in Syria: Challenges and Prospects https://t.co/ELLNYjgJgQ

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📄 Josh Paul analyzes Section 224 of this year's National Defense Authorization Act, which would shift #US-#Israel defense ties from military aid to deeper industrial and technological integration. The result would be a harder-to-reverse relationship that could weaken congressional oversight and create new risks for #US national security.
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📄 #Lebanon’s post-Taif political order remains central to debates over federalism, as Muslims are loath to relinquish power in a unitary state in favor of smaller and weaker cantons.
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📄 #SaudiArabia’s official discourse has been consistently de-escalatory in tone, even as the war has exposed the structural antagonism that the 2023 rapprochement with #Iran never overcame.
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📄 #Iran may retain leverage over parts of the energy trade because LNG exports remain heavily dependent on fixed infrastructure inside the #Gulf.
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📄 The #Iran war now appears to be in a tense state of suspended animation, primarily focused on the status of the Strait of #Hormuz, an issue that was not even a casus belli at the start of the conflict.
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📄 Nabeel Khoury examines #Yemen’s rival authorities, which remain trapped between external patrons, internal corruption, and humanitarian collapse. The PLC and the Houthis govern different Yemens, Khoury argues, but both have subordinated public welfare to political survival.
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📄 Despite significant damage to #Iran’s resilience architecture, war is unlikely to force the Islamic Republic into capitulation or collapse. A more likely outcome is a poorer, more damaged, and more unequal #Iran.
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📄 #SaudiArabia’s East-West pipeline has enabled Saudi authorities to maintain a higher proportion of prewar oil exports than any #Gulf state except #Oman.
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📄 #Oman has successfully sustained its economic and diplomatic ties with #Iran alongside its strategic relationship with the #UnitedStates. Its independent approach to the #Iran war is a continuation of this trajectory, not a recent shift.
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📄 Ruhama Bekele examines the #Gulf smart city projects that are embedding AI-enabled surveillance into daily life while using ethical frameworks to mask weak accountability. The result is a growing architecture of state control that civil society can expose but not easily constrain.
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📄 The #US-Israeli war on #Iran has built on sanctions, poverty, and repression to produce a severe humanitarian crisis. Yara M. Asi discusses the challenges for Iranian civilians, who are today struggling with mass casualties, displacement, damaged health systems, food insecurity, and lasting social devastation.
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📄 In #Lebanon, Sunnis, Shia, and Druze reject federalism and insist on preserving a unitary state, making the proposed federal project politically difficult to realize.
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🗺️ Support in the #US Senate for blocking arms sales to #Israel has increased significantly since 2024. While the latest resolutions failed to pass, 85% of senators voted in April 2026 in favor of halting such sales.
View the infographic to learn more about the sharp increase in Senate support for blocking arms sales to Israel 👇

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📄 The rapprochement between #Riyadh and #Tehran, signed in #Beijing in 2023, bought time and lowered the political temperature, but it did not redistribute regional power.
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📄 #Qatar’s LNG exports show limits of bypass infrastructure, because gas liquefaction has been sunk into fixed facilities that cannot be picked up and moved outside #Hormuz.
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📄 What will replace #Washington’s role as the #Gulf’s security guarantor is unclear, as shifting power balances, temporary alliances, and unpredictable conflicts will make the region still more unstable.
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📄 In #Iran, war struck a costly survival model at its core by disrupting supply chains, weakening domestic production networks, and narrowing alternative trade and transport routes that helped #Iran manage pressure.
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📄 #SaudiArabia’s alternative export and logistical routes make the #Iran war less likely to challenge the underlying principles of #Riyadh’s economic diversification model.
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📄 #Oman may be out of step with the #GCC consensus, but not as much as #Washington might believe. #Gulf states largely share #Oman’s desire for a swiftly negotiated settlement to end the war.
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