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The Arabic media on Israel’s crisis: Don’t interfere with its implosion
Across the Arab world, journalists are debating the implications of Israel's anti-government protests on the state's stability and regional relations.
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Baker Zoubi
August 3, 2023
In Jerash refugee camp, lockdown means ‘living without eating’
Palestinian refugees in Jordan’s Jerash camp were already suffering from severe poverty and public health challenges. Then COVID-19 hit.
By
Nooran Alhamdan
May 12, 2020
‘I want to be seen’: Coronavirus lockdown stories from across the Middle East
With a computer, Zoom, and a list of questions, I spoke to young people across the region about how their lives are being affected by COVID-19.
By
Yuval Abraham
May 6, 2020
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Red-Dead pipeline is the wrong answer, politically and environmentally
Pumping Red Sea water into the Dead Sea to save it from drying up ignores environmental consequences, experts warn. Rights groups decry the plan as an ‘attempt to force the Palestinian population to consent to their own dispossession.’ By Keren Simons Israel and Jordan last Thursday signed a historic agreement to cooperate over their shared bodies…
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The Beaten Path: Seeking refuge in Eilat (part 9)
Israel was borne of a need to escape a violent Europe. Now Israelis feel a constant need to escape a violent Israel. The deconstructed tourist trail reaches the deepest south, which is where they often go. Part nine of Yuval Ben-Ami’s journey through the Holy Land’s most popular tourist sites. Off the Sinai smuggling routes, there’s…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
December 4, 2014
A voice calling in the wilderness: A journey to the ‘Castle of the Jews’
Five hundred words and three photos from one place. This time: a church in the middle of a minefield, water you can walk on, an international border with no soldiers and a legal limbo that wouldn’t make sense anywhere else. What is the strangest place in the world? Depends how you define “strange.” In English, one…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
May 29, 2014
Resource: Surveying Palestinian identity in the homeland and diaspora
A new survey by the BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, a non-profit organization that works to defend and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees, attempts to understand how youth of Palestinian heritage (third or fourth generation of displaced Palestinians) identify with their ancestry. BADIL conducted a survey focusing on identity and social ties among Palestinian…
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July 3, 2013
Hell in Syria: Who favors intervention?
The Syria nightmare has gotten worse than imaginable, and now the only thing conceivably worse is what can be expected in the foreseeable future. In this awful environment, some interesting data has appeared about public attitudes from two important parts of the world: the U.S. and the Middle East. Here are a few thoughts about…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
May 29, 2013
Five Palestinian children killed in Syria
The United Nation agency for Palestinian refugees is reporting that three separate incidents in Syria claimed last week the lives of five children. One of the children died in Dera’a and four others in Damascus. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East UNRWA, Mohammad Al-Khateeb (aged 14) was killed on March 15 by…
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Noam Sheizaf
March 24, 2013
30 Palestinians killed last week in Syria
Five members of the same family were killed in Yarmouk, along with at least seven other people. Despite the bloodshed, Jordan continues to refuse to allow Palestinians among the Syrian refugees it accepts. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) issued a press release on Sunday expressing…
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Noam Sheizaf
February 10, 2013
Asia-Pacific leaders promise to liberalize regional trade at APEC gathering
VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA — They gathered, they spoke, they made their positions known, one by one. Leaders representing 21 economies from the Asia-Pacific region vowing, once more, to ease the barriers that can often make trade more difficult and more expensive. They came, they saw, they conquered The event was rather diplomatic: lots of handshakes,…
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Roee Ruttenberg
September 9, 2012
Re-thinking the role of international law in the Middle East conflict
The fact that international law supports the two-state paradigm is not sufficient reason to preserve its current role, if at present, international law serves to perpetuate the conflict. International law is increasingly being applied when deemed relevant to an ideological agenda, and therefore its impact is limited. By David Hughes In response to former Justice…
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July 22, 2012
Letter from Jerash, Jordan: A visit to the Gaza Refugee Camp
The writer shares snippets of life from the Palestinians living in the refugee camp in Jordan – from the longing for a home unknown, to reservations about the ‘Arab Spring’ reaching them. Dispatch from Jerash. By Munir Atalla Last month I worked at the Gaza Refugee Camp in Jerash, Jordan. The camp is home to about…
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July 16, 2012
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