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الوجود الإيراني في الحسكة السورية دور متنامي ومصدر تهديد مباشر للقوات الأمريكية
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  • الوجود الإيراني في الحسكة السورية دور متنامي ومصدر تهديد مباشر للقوات الأمريكية

    زيادة القدرات العسكرية واللوجستية للمليشيات الإيرانية في محافظة الحسكة، ازداد منذ مطلع عام 2022، بعد أن كان وجودها يقتصر على مجموعات عسكرية صغيرة وبعض المليشيات المحلية المدعومة من إيران، لكن الأحداث الأخيرة فتحت المجال لها للتغلغل داخل المجتمعات المحلية، مستغلة تراجع الدور الروسي في المنطقة وخلافات العشائر العربية مع الإدارة الذاتية وقوات سوريا الديمقراطية.

    الاقتصاد المغربي من خلال مؤشر دوين بيزنس
    Photo by Francois LOCHON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
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  • الاقتصاد المغربي من خلال مؤشر دوين بيزنس

    على مدى العقد الماضي، أحرز المغرب تقدمًا كبيرًا على مستوى مؤشر ممارسة الأعمال العالمي (دوين بيزنس)، حيث قفز من المرتبة 130 في عام 2009 إلى المرتبة 53 في عام 2020. رغم تلك الإصلاحات، لم يؤدي تحسن ترتيب المغرب على مستوى مؤشر مناخ الأعمال إلى تحسن اقتصادي كبير.

    March 24, 2022

    Madeleine Albright (1937-2022)
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  • Madeleine Albright (1937-2022)

    Madeleine Albright was an exceptional thinker, diplomat and leader who for generations has been an inspiration to diplomats, foreign policy experts, and great minds in this city, and across the world. Her passing, particularly at this time of particular peril, is a great loss.

    March 24, 2022

    Iran Needs a Cushion, and Europe Needs Gas
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  • Iran Needs a Cushion, and Europe Needs Gas

    The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a watershed moment on so many levels for so many countries. Existing political, economic, energy, and transportation channels are being affected across western Eurasia. Countries are maneuvering to minimize the war’s detrimental impact while new trade synergies are being formed at a rapid pace. Most recently, Germany and Qatar signed a long-term energy partnership for the delivery of Qatari natural gas as the Germans look to reduce dependence on Russian supplies. Qatar’s reserves are located in the world’s largest gas field, which it shares with its northern neighbor, Iran.

    Opinion: A crisis in U.S.-Middle East relations
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  • Opinion: A crisis in U.S.-Middle East relations

    When the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates decline phone calls from the president of the United States, rebuff his requests to help lower oil prices, and shy away from condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and when the U.A.E. hosts Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in Abu Dhabi, there is no doubt that a major crisis in U.S.-Arab Gulf relations is under way.

    The changing Middle East regional order
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  • The changing Middle East regional order

    A history of the Arab state system starting from the second half of the twentieth century to the present

    March 21, 2022

    Putin’s war killed Syria diplomacy
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  • Putin’s war killed Syria diplomacy

    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting collapse of U.S. and European diplomatic relations with Moscow mean Syria diplomacy is now all but dead. Small signs that diplomacy may have been poised for renewed investment in early 2022 now feel like a distant memory.

    Lebanon is running out of time to avert starvation
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  • Lebanon is running out of time to avert starvation

    As Russia’s two-week-old war against Ukraine has brought Lebanon’s wheat imports from the besieged Black Sea nation to a complete standstill, the government in Beirut is racing against the clock to avert a catastrophic food crisis.

    يسلط المعرض الرقمي لمكتبة عمان الضوء على أعمال سعد الله ونوس والمجلات السورية النادرة
    سعد الله ونوس في اليوم العالمي للمسرح ١٩٩٦ (المصدر: الجديد)
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  • يسلط المعرض الرقمي لمكتبة عمان الضوء على أعمال سعد الله ونوس والمجلات السورية النادرة

    غيّر سعد الله ونوس المسرح السوري تغييرا جذريا بأعماله الوجودية وغالبا السياسية منها. كما حفز ايضا، في مجلة الحياة المسرحية، نقاشات غنية عن التعريف على مواضيع تشمل الفن، السياسة، ومستقبل المسرح العربي. اعرف المزيد عن أعماله المعروضة في المعرض الإفتراضي لمكتبة عمان بمعهد الشرق الأوسط

    March 8, 2022

    Oman Library Digital Exhibition Highlights the Work of Sa‘dallah Wannous and Rare Syrian Journals
    Sa'dallah Wannous at World Theatre Day, 1996. (Source: Al-Jadid)
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  • Oman Library Digital Exhibition Highlights the Work of Sa‘dallah Wannous and Rare Syrian Journals

    Sa’dallah Wannous revolutionized the Syrian stage with his existential, and often political, work. In the journal al-Ḥayāh al-Masraḥīyah he fostered discussions on art, politics and the future of Arab theater. Learn more about the Oman Library’s Digital Exhibition on his work.

    March 8, 2022

    Sanctions won’t move Putin — we must bolster Ukraine’s air defenses
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  • Sanctions won’t move Putin — we must bolster Ukraine’s air defenses

    Attempts at deterrence by sanctions have failed. The question now is: Does the West expect sanctions to change Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions? We think not — and the world should have given up years ago on expecting them to dissuade him.

    March 7, 2022