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May 5, 2025

How China turned the Red Sea into a strategic trap for the US

By Fatima Abo Alasrar

Beijing’s proxy warfare turns global trade routes into battlefields that the United States struggles to defend.

China Economy & Business

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Apr 30, 2025

From Tripoli to Tehran: Lessons from Libya in US-Iran nuclear talks

By Yaseen Rashed

Twenty-one years later, the nuclear disarmament of Libya serves as a model for the United States in current nuclear negotiations with Iran.

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MENASource

Apr 29, 2025

Why the US must not let Syria slip away

By Luke Wagner

Reconsidering the uneasy US-Syria relationship amid reports that Trump and al-Sharaa will meet during the US president’s Saudi Arabia visit.

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Feb 7, 2022

Iran is preparing public opinion for a revival of the JCPOA

By Anonymous

The question that remains to be answered, as far as Tehran is concerned, is what if Donald Trump or a likeminded politician is elected in 2024, given the atmosphere in Washington. Tehran needs some guarantee that the Trump experience will not recur. Everything else is negotiable.

Iran Middle East

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Feb 7, 2022

Al Monitor covered empowerME’s entrepreneur tracker launch

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Feb 7, 2022

Rich Outzen joins Global News to discuss the earthquake in Turkey and Syria
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Feb 7, 2022

Atlantic Council releases Middle East Entrepreneurship Program Tracker

State-of-the-art tool reveals concerted action and investment from regional governments to nurture innovation in six entrepreneurship ecosystems

Entrepreneurship Middle East

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Feb 7, 2022

Wechsler quoted in Jewish Insider on Israel-UAE cooperation

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Feb 7, 2022

Slavin quoted in USA Today on US-Iran negotiations amidst Ukraine crisis

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Feb 6, 2022

Global Sanctions Dashboard: Groundhog edition

By Julia Friedlander, Michael Albanese, Maia Nikoladze and Castellum.AI

Who sanctions Russia and why, Colombia’s narcotics trafficking, Iran’s balancing act, and Chinese military sanctions.

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Feb 6, 2022

Fulton quoted in Defense Romania on growing economic relations between China and Saudi Arabia

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Feb 5, 2022

Slavin quoted in Nigeria News on Iran sanctions and ongoing nuclear talks

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Feb 5, 2022

Qaddour quoted in USA Today on expansion of ISIS forces in Middle East

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