Essays

Both states have violated international law and instigated regional chaos

Confederative Futures and the Burden of Leadership in Israel/Palestine

Fall 2025

The pathway to recognition of Palestinian Statehood does not require the world’s approval through the raising of 192 flags; rather, it requires convincing “one state only—the state of Israel”

Israel is Erasing Palestine and the West is Complicit

By Nour Odeh

Fall 2025

The genocide unfolding in the Gaza Strip has allowed Israel to speed up its takeover and ethnic cleansing of the occupied West Bank in stealth mode

What Palestinian Statehood Must Mean to Mean Anything

By Omar Auf

Fall 2025

As more governments prepare to recognize Palestine this September, the gesture risks being performative unless matched with concrete policies such as sanctions and legal obligations, and a decolonial vision of statehood that challenges occupation at its roots

Journalism in Peril: The Gaza Genocide as a Global Test of Press Freedom

By Mohamed Salama, Shahira S. Fahmy, Mona Raafat Alsaba, and Saif Shahin

Fall 2025

In Gaza, it isn’t only civilians that are being laid to ruin; the freedom to tell the story of its people is being muzzled by successive Israeli strikes targeting and killing Palestinian journalists

Ending the War In Gaza: What Must Be Done Now

By Gershon Baskin

Fall 2025

Israel’s military juggernaut will not be stopped in Gaza without significant international pressure and a range of conditional sanctions

Recognizing a Palestine State: What’s New—and What’s Not

By Bidisha Biswas

Fall 2025

Australia is the latest G8 nation to pledge recognition of an independent Palestine, but long before Western capitals took action, recognition of the Palestinian state echoed across India, Indonesia, South Africa, and much of Latin America in a shared sentiment of justice rooted in anti-colonial solidarity

From Symbolic Victories to a People’s Victory: How Gaza Forged Global Recognition of Palestine

By Ramzy Baroud

Fall 2025

A story of two tracks: the symbolic quest for a state and the daily reality of a people fighting for their existence

On World Refugee Day, the World Must Help Correct the Historic Injustice Against Palestinian Refugees

By Ola G. El-Taliawi

Since 1948, the international community has offered little more than hand-wringing and humanitarian aid when it comes to the plight of Palestinian refugees. The global community must recognize that return is not a threat to peace, but a precondition for it

Regulating Privacy and Digital Identities in the Age of AI: The View from Egypt

By Alia El Bolock

Ensuring effective implementation of Egypt’s 2020 Personal Data Protection Law would help provide a roadmap to address privacy concerns in data-driven ventures

Gamechanger or Fantasy? Trump’s Evolving Middle East Strategy

By Gedaliah Afterman, and Carla Dondera

Trump’s return to the White House has revived his ambition to reshape the Middle East, but as the recent war between Israel and Iran shows, the way forward is anything but simple and demands an unprecedented level of U.S. involvement

Governing AI Under Fire in Ukraine

By Anna Mysyshyn

Spring/Summer 2025

Ukraine offers an opportunity to examine how democracies may balance innovation, accountability, and human rights in the age of autonomous warfare

Gaza: Israel’s AI Human Laboratory

By Anwar Mhajne

Spring/Summer 2025

Israel’s use of artificial intelligence has wreaked horrific destruction on Gaza; this technology will likely be sold across the globe in the near future

Hybrid Writing: Authority, Ethics, Agency

By Thomas Skouteris

Spring/Summer 2025

Though generative artificial intelligence has facilitated the emulation of form, it cannot take responsibility for what is written. Agency remains at the heart of writing once all else can be automated

Artificial Intelligence Offers Learning Opportunities in the Global South

By Javaid Sofi and Junaid Nabi

Spring/Summer 2025

A pilot program for AI-assisted instruction in Nigeria indicates a promising avenue for democratizing access to education around the world

Beyond Automation: Managing the Integration of AI into Human Civilization

By ChatGPT

Spring/Summer 2025

As AI transforms education, law, and global policy, how can we integrate it wisely—balancing innovation with ethics, equity, and human agency in everyday life?

Tehran’s Red Lines, Trump’s Maximum Pressure, and Regime Survival

By Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Spring/Summer 2025

Progress toward a potential nuclear deal between the United States and Iran stalls, amid a high-stakes process for Tehran and others

Silicon Borders: The Global Justice of AI Infrastructure

By Johannes Himmelreich

Spring/Summer 2025

Washington uses ‘chokepoints’ to restrict global access to AI development, but this approach may threaten U.S. national security while creating significant moral dilemmas

Great Power Competition Makes Its Exit as Middle Eastern AI Ambitions Grow

By Vincent J. Carchidi

Spring/Summer 2025

As the Trump Administration downgrades the policy importance of science and technology, Middle Eastern states are pursuing tech autonomy

An AI-generated image of Donald Trump shaking hands with George Washington.

The Future of Democracy in the Age of Deepfakes

By Hany Farid

Spring/Summer 2025

AI-generated content has already begun to work against us, rather than for us. To ensure this technology brings benefits rather than harms, we must institute immediate changes