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If you know anything about Lebanese politics, you probably know that a sectarian formula is used to assign government positions. Lebanese law stipulates, for...

subscribe to Muftah on iTunes to receive our latest podcast episodes The U.S. government’s launch of the War on Terror after the September 11 attacks led...

subscribe to Muftah on iTunes to receive our latest podcast episodes Dr. Trita Parsi is the founder and president of the National Iranian American Council and...

Welcome to the relaunch of Muftah's podcast series! Over the past few years, we have welcomed civil rights activists, lawyers, experts, and citizen journalists...

In this Muftah podcast, we hear from Rami Khouri, the founding director and now senior policy fellow of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and...

In this Muftah podcast, we hear from Hatem Abudayyeh, a longtime activist and member of Chicago’s Arab American community. As the Executive Director of the...

As a ceasefire takes hold, it is time to reflect on the range of responses to the seven-week conflict in Gaza. Since the beginning of Operation Protective...

At well over 15 million, the world’s population of refugees is now the highest since 1994. In the past year, two major groups have added substantially to...

On October 18, Saudi Arabia publicly announced its unprecedented decision to reject an offer for one of ten rotating two-year seats on the fifteen-state United...

The conflict in Syria has brought the old U.S.-Russian divide in the Middle East back to the fore. The force of this paradigm has spilled over to neighboring...