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As regional leaders from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) prepare to attend COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, young scholars, journalists, and community leaders are hoping to make their voice heard about the host of pressing climate challenges facing their countries and communities. Among the issues raised by youth activists in MENA are the insufficient action on… Continue reading MENA Youth Voices on Climate Change
The Middle East Council on Global Affairs is organizing a webinar with a panel of experts to discuss the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe and the regional and international implications of the war. The discussion will convene leading experts to discuss most pressing challenges civilians face, strategies could be employed to protect vulnerable populations, especially in Darfur, key factors influencing mediation efforts, and the role of external actors playing in the conflict.
The Middle East Council on Global Affairs is bringing together leading experts to explore the causes, impacts, and long-term consequences of these disasters.
A recent report by disinformation researchers Marc Owen Jones and Sohan Dsouza revealed a multi-platform global influence campaign promoting anti-Muslim hate and sectarianism. Jones and Dsouza’s report highlights the use of disinformation to spread a broadly neoconservative agenda, including xenophobic, anti-immigration, and anti-Muslim propaganda and disinformation. The campaigns also sought to promote sectarian division in… Continue reading Digital Deception: Disinformation, Elections, and Islamophobia
the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (ME Council) will host a webinar to unpack these major escalations and their regional aftershocks. The discussion will convene leading experts to analyze the impact of the recent assassinations and retaliations on the strategic calculations of Hezbollah, Hamas, Israel, and Iran.
ME Council is holding a webinar to discuss with a panel of experts the results of the presidential elections in Iran following the death of former President Ebrahim Raisi.
The Middle East Council on Global Affairs is hosting a webinar to analyze the shifting regional order amid Israel’s brutal military campaign in Gaza and in the wake of Iran-Israel escalation.
In collaboration with the Middle East Studies Forum (MESF) at Deakin University, the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (ME Council) hosted an online panel discussion on “Iran’s role in the Middle East: Building Bridges or Expanding Influence?” The event marked the launch of an ME Council dossier encompassing the same topic, edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh, a nonresident senior fellow at the ME Council, and Hamidreza Azizi, a nonresident fellow at the ME Council. Shahram Akbarzadeh moderated the event and highlighted the session’s significance against the backdrop of escalating regional tensions amid the ongoing war in Gaza. The panel featured Hamidreza Azizi alongside experts Mehran Kamrava, professor of government at Georgetown University in Qatar, and Azadeh Zamirirad, deputy head of the Africa and the Middle East division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP).
More than six months into the war between Israel and Hamas, the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is every day more severe. More than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed, and over 75% of the total population has been displaced. Aid agencies agree that a famine is now imminent. Aid delivery has long been hindered by restrictions and concrete challenges on the ground, while the lives of humanitarian workers are endangered. This event delves into the crisis affecting the Gaza Strip, focusing on the humanitarian impact of the conflict, the management of aid in the Strip, and the politisation of humanitarian efforts since the outbreak of the conflict.