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How Changing Priorities Are Shaping US Engagement in the Middle East

How Changing Priorities Are Shaping US Engagement in the Middle East

By Lynn Abou Hamzeh | Staff Writer
Following the results of the Global War on Terror, the US approach to the region and its priorities therein has shifted. This comes mainly due to the decline of the unipolar political environment that the US has enjoyed since the culmination of the Cold War in 1991. America’s future in the Middle East seems to be at a crossroads.

Chasing Roots

Chasing Roots

By Issam Raad | Staff Writer
What are we but wanderers in the dark, craving light through adventure and love in diverse languages and places across space?

Humanitarian Aid to Syria: Crisis of a Regime or of Sanctions?

Humanitarian Aid to Syria: Crisis of a Regime or of Sanctions?

By Ahmad Sabra | Staff Writer
The Caesar sanctions that are being used as a scapegoat are not to blame for the for tardy arrival of humanitarian aid to Syria. The regime has consistenly used this excuse to cover its usurpation of incoming aid to non-Assad controlled territories and is continuing to do so after the recent tragedy.