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Founded by Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, DAWN works to reform U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa, hold abusers accountable & magnify the voices of experts/activists from the region. dawnmena.org
Responding to new U.S. sanctions on International Criminal Court judges, "@sarahleah1.bsky.social, the executive director for DAWN, said Rubio is 'coddling Israeli war criminals.' She added that the court should 'not wait to prosecute him for interfering with justice.'"
US sanctions more ICC judges, citing ruling on Israeli war crime probe
International court has repeatedly decried US sanctions amid its ongoing investigation into Gaza war crimes.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Responding to new U.S. sanctions on International Criminal Court judges, "@sarahleah1.bsky.social, the executive director for DAWN, said Rubio is 'coddling Israeli war criminals.' She added that the court should 'not wait to prosecute him for interfering with justice.'"
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AIPAC: Stop Hiding Identities of Officers and Directors
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) should stop hiding the board members and executive staff who govern and direct its operations from its public website, said DAWN today.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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"Our research revealed that AIPAC's board is not just a group of any 50 individuals – it is a nexus connecting virtually every major pro-Israel institution in America," said DAWN's Isabelle Hayslip. "Documenting AIPAC's leadership also exposes who controls the entire pro-Israel ecosystem."
December 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"Our research revealed that AIPAC's board is not just a group of any 50 individuals – it is a nexus connecting virtually every major pro-Israel institution in America," said DAWN's Isabelle Hayslip. "Documenting AIPAC's leadership also exposes who controls the entire pro-Israel ecosystem."
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"These 50 officers and directors shouldn't try to hide behind the AIPAC name. US nonprofit law makes them personally responsible for the organization's conduct ... its board members and officers are legally on the hook. That is why we are putting faces to the names."" said DAWN's Raed Jarrar.
December 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"These 50 officers and directors shouldn't try to hide behind the AIPAC name. US nonprofit law makes them personally responsible for the organization's conduct ... its board members and officers are legally on the hook. That is why we are putting faces to the names."" said DAWN's Raed Jarrar.
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"AIPAC has obfuscated the identities of its directors and officers from the American public, so today we're providing the transparency this organization refuses to offer ... The public has a right to easily know who they are," said @sarahleah1.bsky.social, DAWN's executive director.
December 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"AIPAC has obfuscated the identities of its directors and officers from the American public, so today we're providing the transparency this organization refuses to offer ... The public has a right to easily know who they are," said @sarahleah1.bsky.social, DAWN's executive director.
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The Faces of AIPAC
Unlike comparable organizations of its size and influence, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) does not maintain a public leadership page identifying the individuals who govern and direct...
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December 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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AIPAC should stop hiding board members and executive staff who lead its operations from its public website, said DAWN, in launching "The Faces of AIPAC, identifying 50 individuals who run one of D.C.'s most powerful lobbying forces—to make available to the public those responsible for AIPAC's work.
AIPAC: Stop Hiding Identities of Officers and Directors
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) should stop hiding the board members and executive staff who govern and direct its operations from its public website, said DAWN today.
dawnmena.org
December 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
AIPAC should stop hiding board members and executive staff who lead its operations from its public website, said DAWN, in launching "The Faces of AIPAC, identifying 50 individuals who run one of D.C.'s most powerful lobbying forces—to make available to the public those responsible for AIPAC's work.
AIPAC should stop hiding board members and executive staff who lead its operations from its public website, said DAWN, in launching "The Faces of AIPAC, identifying 50 individuals who run one of D.C.'s most powerful lobbying forces—to make available to the public those responsible for AIPAC's work.
AIPAC: Stop Hiding Identities of Officers and Directors
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) should stop hiding the board members and executive staff who govern and direct its operations from its public website, said DAWN today.
dawnmena.org
December 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
AIPAC should stop hiding board members and executive staff who lead its operations from its public website, said DAWN, in launching "The Faces of AIPAC, identifying 50 individuals who run one of D.C.'s most powerful lobbying forces—to make available to the public those responsible for AIPAC's work.
Egypt's failure to end the genocide in Gaza "should not land on the shoulders of a similarly oppressed society," writes Ahmed Abdelhalim.
"The Egyptian regime—not its people—has let down Gaza."
"The Egyptian regime—not its people—has let down Gaza."
The Silent Public: Why Aren't Egyptians Revolting?
The Egyptian people do not accept Israel’s war of annihilation, nor the daily and tragic manifestations inflicted on the peoples of the Middle East as a result of the West’s colonial project. Yet, thi...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Egypt's failure to end the genocide in Gaza "should not land on the shoulders of a similarly oppressed society," writes Ahmed Abdelhalim.
"The Egyptian regime—not its people—has let down Gaza."
"The Egyptian regime—not its people—has let down Gaza."
"Winter in the Gaza Strip has become a life-threatening nightmare," writes Ola Almadhoun, as Israel continues its blockade of Gaza, despite a ceasefire.
"For women and girls in particular, winter has become a season of danger, deprivation and systemic neglect."
"For women and girls in particular, winter has become a season of danger, deprivation and systemic neglect."
A Season of Danger: How Winter is Exacerbating Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis, Disproportionately Impacting Women and Girls
Tens of thousands live in primitive, open-air “tents” that can only be described as little more than tarpaulins and makeshift support beams, with no flooring, insulation or drainage, while more than 7...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"Winter in the Gaza Strip has become a life-threatening nightmare," writes Ola Almadhoun, as Israel continues its blockade of Gaza, despite a ceasefire.
"For women and girls in particular, winter has become a season of danger, deprivation and systemic neglect."
"For women and girls in particular, winter has become a season of danger, deprivation and systemic neglect."
As a major winter storm hits Gaza, the lack of shelter and other humanitarian supplies due to Israel's ongoing blockade is worsening the catastrophe in the Strip, writes Ola Almadhoun.
The crisis is particularly impacting women and girls across Gaza.
The crisis is particularly impacting women and girls across Gaza.
A Season of Danger: How Winter is Exacerbating Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis, Disproportionately Impacting Women and Girls
Tens of thousands live in primitive, open-air “tents” that can only be described as little more than tarpaulins and makeshift support beams, with no flooring, insulation or drainage, while more than 7...
dawnmena.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
As a major winter storm hits Gaza, the lack of shelter and other humanitarian supplies due to Israel's ongoing blockade is worsening the catastrophe in the Strip, writes Ola Almadhoun.
The crisis is particularly impacting women and girls across Gaza.
The crisis is particularly impacting women and girls across Gaza.
The U.S. State Department should enforce the Leahy Law to sanction the Israel Defense Forces' 202nd Tzefa Battalion and its 9th Sniper Platoon and prohibit them from further U.S. military aid for their role in gross violations of human rights, said DAWN today.
U.S.: Enforce Leahy Law Against Israeli Sniper Unit Responsible for Unlawful Killings of Six Palestinians in Gaza
The U.S. State Department should enforce the Leahy Law to sanction the Israel Defense Forces’ 202nd Tzefa Battalion and its 9th Sniper Platoon and prohibit them from further U.S. military aid for thei...
dawnmena.org
December 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The U.S. State Department should enforce the Leahy Law to sanction the Israel Defense Forces' 202nd Tzefa Battalion and its 9th Sniper Platoon and prohibit them from further U.S. military aid for their role in gross violations of human rights, said DAWN today.
Abdelkader Cheref writes that UN Security Council Resolution 2797, which endorses Morocco's 2007 autonomy plan in Western Sahara, "is likely to be short-lived" without addressing the root of Morocco-Algeria tensions: Sahrawi self-determination in the territory.
Peace in the Maghreb Cannot Bypass Western Sahara
For defenders of international law—mostly non-governmental organizations and countries in the Global South—this resolution sets a dangerous precedent. It transfigures a decolonization case formally re...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Abdelkader Cheref writes that UN Security Council Resolution 2797, which endorses Morocco's 2007 autonomy plan in Western Sahara, "is likely to be short-lived" without addressing the root of Morocco-Algeria tensions: Sahrawi self-determination in the territory.
Today, 2 PM, ET: “Politics in an Accidental Crucible,” a discussion on Jordan. Register below.
Don't miss our online event tomorrow, Dec. 11, 2 PM ET: “Politics in an Accidental Crucible:” A discussion of Sean Yom’s new book, “Jordan”
With @seanyom.bsky.social, @mattlac.bsky.social, Ben Schutze, Jamal al Tahat, Yara Bataineh, @sarahleah1.bsky.social
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December 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Today, 2 PM, ET: “Politics in an Accidental Crucible,” a discussion on Jordan. Register below.
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Who were the Algerian fighters guarding Assad’s frontlines—and why is Algeria desperate to bring them home? This rare look inside Syria’s collapsing security state uncovers the buried evidence, the secret arrests, and the political tensions shaping Syria’s future.
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Foreign Combatants and Transitional Justice: The Expanding Case of Polisario Fighters Detained in Post-Assad Syria
Time will tell whether that reasoning leads to their release or further detention in today’s new Syria after choosing to fight with a barbaric regime that killed hundreds of thousands to retain its gr...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
My latest for @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social
Don't miss our online event tomorrow, Dec. 11, 2 PM ET: “Politics in an Accidental Crucible:” A discussion of Sean Yom’s new book, “Jordan”
With @seanyom.bsky.social, @mattlac.bsky.social, Ben Schutze, Jamal al Tahat, Yara Bataineh, @sarahleah1.bsky.social
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Don't miss our online event tomorrow, Dec. 11, 2 PM ET: “Politics in an Accidental Crucible:” A discussion of Sean Yom’s new book, “Jordan”
With @seanyom.bsky.social, @mattlac.bsky.social, Ben Schutze, Jamal al Tahat, Yara Bataineh, @sarahleah1.bsky.social
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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“Fallujah remains a symbol of US war crimes...Gaza is the direct result of decades of US breaches of international law and the destruction of mechanisms meant to uphold it. When the US got away with so much in Iraq, Israel knew it could get away with everything it’s doing in Gaza,” says Raed Jarrar.
The Poisoned Lives That US Bombs Leave Behind
Reporting from Fallujah, Jacobin documents how US-made weapons laced with toxic metals and depleted uranium have turned cities razed by war into biohazards. Soil, bodies, and whole generations are bei...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“Fallujah remains a symbol of US war crimes...Gaza is the direct result of decades of US breaches of international law and the destruction of mechanisms meant to uphold it. When the US got away with so much in Iraq, Israel knew it could get away with everything it’s doing in Gaza,” says Raed Jarrar.
Myth and paradox define Jordan, as Ezra Karmel writes in his review of @seanyom.bsky.social's new book, "Jordan: Politics in an Accidental Crucible."
"In contrast with the myths that flatten Jordan, these paradoxes reveal its complexity."
"In contrast with the myths that flatten Jordan, these paradoxes reveal its complexity."
“Winston’s Hiccup:” Myth and Paradox in Sean Yom’s “Jordan: Politics in an Accidental Crucible”
Sean Yom begins “Jordan: Politics in an Accidental Crucible” with a frequently recounted story about how the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’s jagged eastern border took shape when Winston Churchill slipp...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Myth and paradox define Jordan, as Ezra Karmel writes in his review of @seanyom.bsky.social's new book, "Jordan: Politics in an Accidental Crucible."
"In contrast with the myths that flatten Jordan, these paradoxes reveal its complexity."
"In contrast with the myths that flatten Jordan, these paradoxes reveal its complexity."
Syria's new government has made many promises one year after Assad's fall, which mark "the line between a revolution that merely changes leaders and one that shifts the very foundation of an entire nation," writes Joud Monla-Hassan.
Syria After Liberation: One Year into a New Beginning
There is a buzz of energy on my flight from Istanbul to Aleppo. For most onboard, this will be their first visit back to their home country in well over a decade. On the plane, I cannot help but think...
dawnmena.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Syria's new government has made many promises one year after Assad's fall, which mark "the line between a revolution that merely changes leaders and one that shifts the very foundation of an entire nation," writes Joud Monla-Hassan.
"Newly surfaced evidence revealing the role of Polisario fighters in Syria's war, who once backed the former dictator Bashar al-Assad, complicates stalled transitional justice efforts and Syria’s return to the regional fold," reports @renanetjes.bsky.social.
Foreign Combatants and Transitional Justice: The Expanding Case of Polisario Fighters Detained in Post-Assad Syria
Time will tell whether that reasoning leads to their release or further detention in today’s new Syria after choosing to fight with a barbaric regime that killed hundreds of thousands to retain its gr...
dawnmena.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Newly surfaced evidence revealing the role of Polisario fighters in Syria's war, who once backed the former dictator Bashar al-Assad, complicates stalled transitional justice efforts and Syria’s return to the regional fold," reports @renanetjes.bsky.social.
Join us Thursday, December 11, 2 PM ET online for: “Politics in an Accidental Crucible:” A discussion of Sean Yom’s new book, “Jordan”
With @seanyom.bsky.social, @mattlac.bsky.social, Ben Schutze, Jamal al Tahat, Yara Bataineh and @sarahleah1.bsky.social
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
With @seanyom.bsky.social, @mattlac.bsky.social, Ben Schutze, Jamal al Tahat, Yara Bataineh and @sarahleah1.bsky.social
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Join us Thursday, December 11, 2 PM ET online for: “Politics in an Accidental Crucible:” A discussion of Sean Yom’s new book, “Jordan”
With @seanyom.bsky.social, @mattlac.bsky.social, Ben Schutze, Jamal al Tahat, Yara Bataineh and @sarahleah1.bsky.social
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
With @seanyom.bsky.social, @mattlac.bsky.social, Ben Schutze, Jamal al Tahat, Yara Bataineh and @sarahleah1.bsky.social
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"In a world that has allowed so much to be destroyed, Palestinians in Gaza continue to teach us one unshakable truth: Even amid genocide, learning is a form of freedom," Ghada al-Rozzi writes from Gaza.
Learning Without Walls: Rebuilding Education in Gaza After Two Years of Devastation
The international community must confront the full scale of devastation inflicted on Gaza’s education sector and act decisively to support its reconstruction, not only as a humanitarian necessity, but...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"In a world that has allowed so much to be destroyed, Palestinians in Gaza continue to teach us one unshakable truth: Even amid genocide, learning is a form of freedom," Ghada al-Rozzi writes from Gaza.
Jordan's geopolitical and strategic outlook headed into 2026 should be viewed with "more optimism than initially expected," writes Aaron Magid.
"Still, Amman faces considerable challenges," particularly with ongoing economic stagnation.
"Still, Amman faces considerable challenges," particularly with ongoing economic stagnation.
Jordan’s Strategic Outlook Brightens After Turbulence
Amman faces considerable challenges. Unemployment remains over 20%, and the country’s national debt has spiked to over $63 billion. Yet, the Gaza ceasefire and improved ties with Damascus provide Abdu...
dawnmena.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Jordan's geopolitical and strategic outlook headed into 2026 should be viewed with "more optimism than initially expected," writes Aaron Magid.
"Still, Amman faces considerable challenges," particularly with ongoing economic stagnation.
"Still, Amman faces considerable challenges," particularly with ongoing economic stagnation.
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"For all their utopian dreams, the megaprojects championed by MBS don’t signal the future, but the trap represented by Saudi Arabia’s political economy."
My @wpr.bsky.social column on MBS and the staggering waste of his development "vision." Gift link: www.worldpoliticsreview.com/mbs-trump-sa...
My @wpr.bsky.social column on MBS and the staggering waste of his development "vision." Gift link: www.worldpoliticsreview.com/mbs-trump-sa...
MBS’ Vanity Projects Are Bleeding Saudi Arabia Dry
Saudi Arabia can’t even afford Mohammed bin Salman’s follies, let alone the investment into the U.S. he promised Donald Trump.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"For all their utopian dreams, the megaprojects championed by MBS don’t signal the future, but the trap represented by Saudi Arabia’s political economy."
My @wpr.bsky.social column on MBS and the staggering waste of his development "vision." Gift link: www.worldpoliticsreview.com/mbs-trump-sa...
My @wpr.bsky.social column on MBS and the staggering waste of his development "vision." Gift link: www.worldpoliticsreview.com/mbs-trump-sa...
With the Grand Egyptian Museum's opening, Cairo continues to redefine the past to both "justify its policies [and] effectively redefine what Egyptian history, the nation, the state and the military mean today," writes @magedmandour.bsky.social.
Egypt: A New Museum Cannot Legitimize a Nation Without a People
In essence, the regime has succeeded in manufacturing an imagined past that not only justifies its policies but effectively redefines what Egyptian history, the nation, the state and the military mean...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
With the Grand Egyptian Museum's opening, Cairo continues to redefine the past to both "justify its policies [and] effectively redefine what Egyptian history, the nation, the state and the military mean today," writes @magedmandour.bsky.social.