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Wednesday, September 11, 2024
History As It Happens: 1967 and the West Bank today

In this episode of History As It Happens, Omar Rahman of the Middle East Council on Global Affairs explains how Israel’s occupation of the West Bank functions with its two separate justice systems — one for Jews, one for Arabs — more than 50 years after the Jewish state took control of the land in the Six-Day War in June 1967.

Omar H. Rahman
Sunday, September 8, 2024
La abstención protagoniza las elecciones argelinas en las que el actual presidente barre con el 94,65% de los votos

“La indiferencia es una señal del debilitamiento de la democracia. El país, como muchos otros de la región, está retrocediendo en cuanto a indicadores democráticos”, señala a El Independiente Dalia Ghanem, investigadora del think tank Middle East Council on Global Affairs.

Dalia Ghanem
Friday, September 6, 2024
Elezioni in Algeria: esito già scritto

«Queste elezioni sono un non-evento, nel senso che sappiamo già che Tebboune tornerà in gioco, verrà rieletto. I militari, il vero centro del potere, hanno deciso che è adatto, rendendo questo più un plebiscito che un’elezione», racconta a Nigrizia Dalia Ghanem, ricercatrice senior e direttrice del programma Conflict and Transitions al Middle East Council on Global Affairs, sito a Doha.

Dalia Ghanem
Friday, September 6, 2024
« Les élections en Algérie sont des affaires étroitement contrôlées, qui assurent la perpétuation de la structure du pouvoir en place »

Entretien avec Dalia Ghanem, spécialiste de l’Algérie, directrice de programme au Middle East Council on Global Affairs.

Dalia Ghanem
Friday, September 6, 2024
“Cezayir’de birinci parti çekimserlik”: Yarın sandık başına gidecek Cezayir’de seçimlere dair bilmeniz gerekenler

Orta Doğu Küresel İlişkiler Konseyi’nden kıdemli analist Dalia Ghanem ise “Cumhurbaşkanının popülaritesi, 2019’da seçildiği zamanki onay oranlarını bile aşıyor.

Dalia Ghanem
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Why’s Netanyahu so insistent that Israel control the Gaza-Egypt crossing?

“Israeli society is very fragmented, and there’s anger coming from different sides. … Maybe Netanyahu believes that as long as there is an existential threat from abroad, the turmoil within the country as a whole can be held together through that pressure,” Omar Rahman, a fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, told Al Jazeera.

Omar H. Rahman
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Digital Deception: Disinformation, Elections, and Islamophobia: Juan Cole et al.

Middle East Council on Global Affairs | Webinar on “Digital Deception: Disinformation, Elections, and Islamophobia,” September 2, 2024, featuring Juan Cole, Marc Owen Jones, Sohan Dsouza, and Sahar Aziz.

Marc Owen Jones
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Dalia Ghanem: What Algeria’s elections really mean for the future

On September 7, Algerians will head to the polls to elect their president. The outcome, however, is already a foregone conclusion. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, running for his second term, is certain to win.

Dalia Ghanem
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Forthcoming election in Algeria: Fairness, turnout, and Tebboune’s popularity?

Dalia Ghanem