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This article was first published by The Times of Israel. The first Lebanese parliamentary exercise since widespread 2019 protests over government incompetence and corruption have come and gone. Yes, at the polls on May 15, Hezbollah, among others, suffered a bit of a setback (or embarrassment) – due to its own taking of the Shia community […]
Posted July 28, 2022
In a few short weeks, the Taliban will celebrate the anniversary of the U.S. retreat from Afghanistan. For most Americans, August 15 will be just another day. The media will broadcast graphic footage of the evacuation from Kabul last summer but with U.S. troops home, the public has now moved on to other matters, primarily […]
Posted June 30, 2022
This article was first published by American University in Cairo’s Cairo Review of Global Affairs. It was published as part of UCF’s partnership with AUC, thanks to the generous support of Jonathan and Nancy Wolf. As of April 4, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed well over one million global cases of […]
Posted April 4, 2022
This article was first published by American University in Cairo’s Cairo Review of Global Affairs. It was published as part of UCF’s partnership with AUC, thanks to the generous support of Jonathan and Nancy Wolf. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the most water-scarce region in the world and is expected to […]
Posted March 22, 2022
This article was first published by American University in Cairo’s Cairo Review of Global Affairs. It was published as part of UCF’s partnership with AUC, thanks to the generous support of Jonathan and Nancy Wolf. The WEF Nexus as a Framework To assess interactions among the three resources controlling the structure and function of […]
Posted March 21, 2022
This article was first published by American University in Cairo’s Cairo Review of Global Affairs. It was published as part of UCF’s partnership with AUC, thanks to the generous support of Jonathan and Nancy Wolf. As governments across the globe make major disaster declarations due to COVID-19, many victims of domestic violence have found […]
Posted March 7, 2022
This article was first published by American University in Cairo’s Cairo Review of Global Affairs. It was published as part of UCF’s partnership with AUC, thanks to the generous support of Jonathan and Nancy Wolf. As the countries of the world, each in their own way, seek to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19), violent groups […]
Posted February 21, 2022
This article was first published by American University in Cairo’s Cairo Review of Global Affairs. It was published as part of UCF’s partnership with AUC, thanks to the generous support of Jonathan and Nancy Wolf. America First is clearly a failed policy—for the United States and the world at large. This Trumpian isolationist doctrine […]
Posted February 7, 2022
This article was first published by American University in Cairo’s Cairo Review of Global Affairs. It was published as part of UCF’s partnership with AUC, thanks to the generous support of Jonathan and Nancy Wolf. Before Turkey’s executive presidency was inaugurated in 2018, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan repeated a pledge he had made on the campaign […]
Posted January 27, 2022
This article was first published by American University in Cairo’s Cairo Review of Global Affairs. It was published as part of UCF’s partnership with AUC, thanks to the generous support of Jonathan and Nancy Wolf. In trying to understand the potential effects of COVID-19 on society, some commentators have looked to the Black Death […]
Posted January 10, 2022