Dalia Dassa Kaye
@dassakaye.bsky.social
Longtime Middle East/global affairs/diplomacy observer. Current: Senior Fellow, UCLA Burkle Center. Former: Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy. More info here: https://www.daliadassakaye.net/. New book out Dec 2!
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Interested in U.S.-Iranian relations? Then join @imes-gw.bsky.social on Wednesday, December 3 at 1 p.m. EST to hear @dassakaye.bsky.social discuss her new book with @azodiac83.bsky.social.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Interested in U.S.-Iranian relations? Then join @imes-gw.bsky.social on Wednesday, December 3 at 1 p.m. EST to hear @dassakaye.bsky.social discuss her new book with @azodiac83.bsky.social.
Click here for more information and to register: imes.elliott.gwu.edu/events/endur...
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I know people have a lot on their plates right now, but the opposition candidate who Erdogan most wants to avoid running against is being threatened with a jail sentence of over 2000 years.
apnews.com/article/turk...
apnews.com/article/turk...
Prosecutor seeks 2,352-year jail term for Istanbul's jailed mayor over alleged corruption
Istanbul’s chief public prosecutor has filed a sweeping indictment against the city's jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu.
apnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I know people have a lot on their plates right now, but the opposition candidate who Erdogan most wants to avoid running against is being threatened with a jail sentence of over 2000 years.
apnews.com/article/turk...
apnews.com/article/turk...
Grim but necessary read from Nathan Brown on the make believe plans in Gaza that doom the majority of its people to a "dismal purgatory." carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...
carnegieendowment.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Grim but necessary read from Nathan Brown on the make believe plans in Gaza that doom the majority of its people to a "dismal purgatory." carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...
Please join one of the public events in DC for my new book; more talks after the holidays in other locations!
Dec. 4 @stimsoncenter.bsky.social with Ryan Crocker and Barbara Slavin: www.stimson.org/event/enduri...
Dec. 4 @stimsoncenter.bsky.social with Ryan Crocker and Barbara Slavin: www.stimson.org/event/enduri...
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Please join one of the public events in DC for my new book; more talks after the holidays in other locations!
Dec. 4 @stimsoncenter.bsky.social with Ryan Crocker and Barbara Slavin: www.stimson.org/event/enduri...
Dec. 4 @stimsoncenter.bsky.social with Ryan Crocker and Barbara Slavin: www.stimson.org/event/enduri...
Distraction alert. Israel and Kazakhstan are not at war. Normalization is welcome but it’s not peace.
Meanwhile, Gaza is far from over and renewed fighting on the Iran front looms.
Meanwhile, Gaza is far from over and renewed fighting on the Iran front looms.
Source tells 'Post' Kazakhstan will be the country joining the Abraham Accords.
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Distraction alert. Israel and Kazakhstan are not at war. Normalization is welcome but it’s not peace.
Meanwhile, Gaza is far from over and renewed fighting on the Iran front looms.
Meanwhile, Gaza is far from over and renewed fighting on the Iran front looms.
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Abigail Spanberger made history on Tuesday as the first woman to be elected governor of Virginia, winning the office by the largest margin of any Democratic candidate in the state in decades. Her campaign focused on jobs and the cost of living, while emphasizing her support for abortion rights.
Abigail Spanberger Flips Virginia, Becomes State’s First Female Governor
In her campaign, Abigail Spanberger focused on jobs and the cost of living and emphasized her support for abortion rights.
nyti.ms
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Abigail Spanberger made history on Tuesday as the first woman to be elected governor of Virginia, winning the office by the largest margin of any Democratic candidate in the state in decades. Her campaign focused on jobs and the cost of living, while emphasizing her support for abortion rights.
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WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Huge wins for Democrats tonight. Americans are not liking what they're seeing from this administration.
Breaking News: California voters agreed to aggressively redraw the state’s congressional district lines to wipe out as many as five Republican seats, according to The Associated Press, delivering a major victory for national Democrats. nyti.ms/3WAARih
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Huge wins for Democrats tonight. Americans are not liking what they're seeing from this administration.
Bravo!
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Bravo!
🎉
Tens of thousands of raucous fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers flooded the city’s downtown on Monday, a joyful moment celebrating the team’s World Series win. nyti.ms/43aFEum
November 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
🎉
US-Iran hostility has now endured longer than the Cold War. My new book coming out December 2 helps explain why.
You can pre-order now @stanfordpress.bsky.social or wherever you get your books. www.sup.org/books/politi...
www.youtube.com/shorts/YLL0m...
You can pre-order now @stanfordpress.bsky.social or wherever you get your books. www.sup.org/books/politi...
www.youtube.com/shorts/YLL0m...
Enduring Hostility Book Announcement
YouTube video by Dalia Dassa Kaye
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November 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
US-Iran hostility has now endured longer than the Cold War. My new book coming out December 2 helps explain why.
You can pre-order now @stanfordpress.bsky.social or wherever you get your books. www.sup.org/books/politi...
www.youtube.com/shorts/YLL0m...
You can pre-order now @stanfordpress.bsky.social or wherever you get your books. www.sup.org/books/politi...
www.youtube.com/shorts/YLL0m...
An unusual night of 🎃 and ⚾. Hopefully we'll all be as happy as the kids getting their candy here in LA!
November 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
An unusual night of 🎃 and ⚾. Hopefully we'll all be as happy as the kids getting their candy here in LA!
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Numerous scenes of violence have emerged from the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher since it was captured by paramilitaries last weekend. The evidence of atrocities stoked fears that Darfur is plunging, once again, into a cycle of genocidal violence.
Executions and Mass Casualties: Videos Show Horror Unfolding in Sudan
Evidence of atrocities emerging from the city of El Fasher stoked fears that the Sudanese region of Darfur is plunging, once again, into a cycle of genocidal violence.
nyti.ms
October 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Numerous scenes of violence have emerged from the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher since it was captured by paramilitaries last weekend. The evidence of atrocities stoked fears that Darfur is plunging, once again, into a cycle of genocidal violence.
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Had missed this excellent piece from the summer on the evolution of ceasefires and how they are increasingly replacing genuine peace.
Why Wars Don’t End Anymore
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Had missed this excellent piece from the summer on the evolution of ceasefires and how they are increasingly replacing genuine peace.
“It’s important that we become a decent, reasonable country again” Amen to that. 🇳🇱
A Dutch center-left party appeared to be the biggest winner in national elections on Wednesday, a strong rebuke to Geert Wilders’s party, according to exit polls.
Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom Loses Seats in Dutch Election
A center-left party was poised to become the country’s largest political party, according to exit polls. The anti-immigrant Party for Freedom, led by Mr. Wilders, was expected to lose 12 seats.
nyti.ms
October 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
“It’s important that we become a decent, reasonable country again” Amen to that. 🇳🇱
horrific reports coming from Sudan and no sign of efforts to stop the atrocities
Hundreds reportedly killed at Sudanese hospital as evidence of RSF atrocities mounts
Hundreds reportedly killed at Sudanese hospital as evidence of RSF atrocities mounts
Rapid Support Forces, which claimed control of El Fasher on Sunday, reportedly killed at least 460 people ‘in cold blood’
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces killed hundreds of patients and staff inside a hospital in El Fasher, according to the World Health Organization and the Sudan Doctors Network, after the paramilitary group claimed control of the city on Sunday.
The WHO secretary general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was “appalled and deeply shocked” at reports that more than 460 people had been killed at the Saudi maternity hospital, without assigning blame, in a post on X. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
horrific reports coming from Sudan and no sign of efforts to stop the atrocities
embarrassing from a foreign policy perspective but wow, what an image for the next no kings protests domestically
South Korea is pulling out all the stops to impress President Trump — including gifting him a replica of an ancient crown symbolizing leadership — as regional leaders try to ease trade and defense tensions by appealing to his taste for lavish gifts. https://wapo.st/3JzgUp2
October 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
embarrassing from a foreign policy perspective but wow, what an image for the next no kings protests domestically
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U.S. intelligence agencies found that the U.A.E. increased supplies of weapons, including advanced Chinese-made drones, to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan this year, pouring fuel on a civil war that has killed as many as 150,000 people. | New from me & WSJ colleagues:
www.wsj.com/world/how-u-...
www.wsj.com/world/how-u-...
Exclusive | How U.A.E. Arms Bolstered a Sudanese Militia Accused of Genocide
Reports by U.S. intelligence agencies show an increase in the flow of materiel from the U.A.E. to the rebel Rapid Support Forces since the spring, according to U.S. officials.
www.wsj.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
U.S. intelligence agencies found that the U.A.E. increased supplies of weapons, including advanced Chinese-made drones, to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan this year, pouring fuel on a civil war that has killed as many as 150,000 people. | New from me & WSJ colleagues:
www.wsj.com/world/how-u-...
www.wsj.com/world/how-u-...
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No one could have seen this coming except everybody. www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...
Israel launches strikes on Gaza, reports say, after Netanyahu orders 'powerful' attacks - live updates
Israel and Hamas accuse each other of violating the ceasefire, with Israel's defence minister alleging Hamas attacked IDF soldiers in Gaza.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
No one could have seen this coming except everybody. www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...
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I've removed the paywall from this interview about the battle for El Fasher, in Darfur. Please share. All the bad things we discuss are now unfolding
www.globaldispatches.org/p/sudans-civ...
www.globaldispatches.org/p/sudans-civ...
Sudan's Civil War Takes an Even Deadlier Turn
What El Fasher’s Crisis Reveals About Sudan’s War — and the World’s Failure to Respond
www.globaldispatches.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I've removed the paywall from this interview about the battle for El Fasher, in Darfur. Please share. All the bad things we discuss are now unfolding
www.globaldispatches.org/p/sudans-civ...
www.globaldispatches.org/p/sudans-civ...
🥳 Look what came in the mail!
My new book on US Iran policy is now available to pre-order from @stanfordpress.bsky.social or wherever you get your books. Pub date December 2: www.sup.org/books/politi...
Stay tuned for launch events!
My new book on US Iran policy is now available to pre-order from @stanfordpress.bsky.social or wherever you get your books. Pub date December 2: www.sup.org/books/politi...
Stay tuned for launch events!
October 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
🥳 Look what came in the mail!
My new book on US Iran policy is now available to pre-order from @stanfordpress.bsky.social or wherever you get your books. Pub date December 2: www.sup.org/books/politi...
Stay tuned for launch events!
My new book on US Iran policy is now available to pre-order from @stanfordpress.bsky.social or wherever you get your books. Pub date December 2: www.sup.org/books/politi...
Stay tuned for launch events!
It's difficult to see this destruction without thinking about the other irreversible damage being inflicted on America and the world under this administration
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It's difficult to see this destruction without thinking about the other irreversible damage being inflicted on America and the world under this administration
So Trump's threatening a return to war in Gaza just a week after he declared peace in the Middle East?
Trump on Hamas: "They did things they shouldn't be doing, and if they keep doing it then we're gonna go in and straighten it out and it'll happen very quickly and pretty violently unfortunately."
October 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
So Trump's threatening a return to war in Gaza just a week after he declared peace in the Middle East?
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Even for haters of the Dodgers, it’s hard not to be in awe of Shohei Ohtani—perhaps the greatest player who has ever lived.
Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers Are a Sight to Behold
Haters may complain about payroll disparities, but you can’t love baseball and not stand in awe watching perhaps the greatest player who has ever lived.
www.newyorker.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Even for haters of the Dodgers, it’s hard not to be in awe of Shohei Ohtani—perhaps the greatest player who has ever lived.