The online journal of DAWN @DAWNmenaorg, magnifying voices from the Middle East and North Africa, including exiles and experts. Pitch: submissions@dawnmena.org
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Apr 10
In an interview, @vali_nasr discusses the current regional conflict, its causes and effects, implications for regional diplomatic and security relationships, and where broader trends in U.S.-Israel-Iran geopolitical wrangling sit today.
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Jun 12
“The Lebanese state takes from its citizens through taxes and tariffs while essential services those revenues should fund are either missing, privatized...or reserved for those who can afford alternatives,” writes @jad_dilati in @DAWN_Journal.
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Jun 12
U.S. terror designation for the Muslim Brotherhood sparks criticism in Jordan.
My article @DAWNmenaorg featuring interviews with @Anis_Khasawneh, @daoudkuttab, @amersabaileh, and former GID officer Saud al-Sharafat.
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Jun 11
The U.S. decision to label the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood a terror organization is viewed by experts in Jordan as an assault on Jordanian civil society, reports @AaronMagid.
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Jun 11
The U.S. decision to label the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood a terror organization is viewed by experts in Jordan as an assault on Jordanian civil society, reports @AaronMagid.
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Jun 10
By treating "Israeli violence and forcible displacement as the work of rogue actors and not a state project, the international community is denying itself policy tools that could actually form an effective response."
@MikeOmerMan writes in @DAWN_Journal: dawnmena.org/europe-is-sanct…
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Jun 10
Palestinians face difficult financial prospects, whether displaced within Gaza or to Egypt, leading many to find new and creative ways to etch out a living. For most, this "survival economy" is unsustainable, reports Athar Ihab Abu Samra.
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Jun 9
My article with @DAWNmenaorg is published. Read it here 👇🏻
Egyptians are feeling the Middle East's regional war at the gas station and while sitting at the dinner table, writes Hend Shaheen.
While Egypt's economy has shown some resilience, few have the means to outlast the economic shock today. dawnmena.org/not-our-war-sti…
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Egyptians are feeling the Middle East's regional war at the gas station and while sitting at the dinner table, writes Hend Shaheen.
While Egypt's economy has shown some resilience, few have the means to outlast the economic shock today. dawnmena.org/not-our-war-sti…
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Jun 8
A new Israeli settler movement, Halutzei HaBashan, “seeks to transfer the settlement model from the West Bank and the Golan deeper into southern Syria,” in order "to impose a new demographic reality,”writes @Ahmd_abdelhalim in @DAWN_Journal.
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Narratives surrounding the Israel/U.S.-Iran War miss the mark, writes Mohsen Askari.
Worse, the people most absent from this narrative struggle are ordinary Iranians, whose voices are increasingly lost as the war carries on. dawnmena.org/did-iran-win-th…
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Jun 5
"Jordan’s dependence cannot shield it from existential threats. ... A state bound by aid and resource scarcity cannot act freely, even when confronting existential threats," writes DAWN's Yarah Bataineh in @DAWN_Journal.
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Lebanon's reform government is repeating the mistakes of the past, says @jad_dilati in @DAWN_Journal.
The state cannot place greater burdens on average citizens while elites get a pass, especially amid the regional war and Israel's invasion of the south. dawnmena.org/the-state-takes…
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Jun 2
As Lebanon's government "focuses dwindling political capital on diplomacy and the immediate needs of over 1.2 million displaced citizens, resources for the disabled and neurodivergent community have vanished,” @Adnansoutlook29 writes in @DAWN_Journal: dawnmena.org/for-lebanons-di…
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My latest: Europe Is Sanctioning Israeli Settlers. Next it Must Confront Israel Itself
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The West cannot discount Israeli settler violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as stemming from "rogue elements," argues @DAWNmenaorg Israel-Palestine Director @MikeOmerMan.
Rather, they constitute a broader state project today.
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May 29
“Long before the genocide, Gaza suffered from one of the highest unemployment rates in the world.” Today, “talented and driven students...spend their days searching for electricity, internet access or aid."
@GhadaRozzi reports from Gaza in @DAWN_Journal: dawnmena.org/a-future-delibe…
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May 29
Israel's settler movement has its eyes set on more territory, this time in southern Syria.
Backed by the Israeli far-right, Halutzei HaBashan (The Pioneers of Bashan) sees Syria's instability as an opportunity, writes @Ahmd_abdelhalim.
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May 27
In March, Israel "approved $730 million for its public diplomacy and information efforts, or hasbara," writes @walzerscent in @DAWN_Journal. Israel is "losing the public opinion battle as it clings to its colonial subjugation of Palestine."
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May 26
"Fragile hope is disappearing" for Palestinian youth in Gaza, who increasingly find themselves unable to find work after years spent advancing their skills through education in the Strip, writes @GhadaRozzi.
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May 26
Jordan at 80 faces an existential crisis internally and externally, leaving it in a precarious position amid a rapidly evolving region, writes Yara Bataineh. dawnmena.org/as-jordan-turns…
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