We're pleased to invite you to our upcoming online event "After the Vote: Prospects for MENA Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy", on Tuesday 12th November, 12pm Eastern Time, 6pm Central European Time.... read more
Welcome to Kawaakibi Foundation’s November newsletter! This month we've collated some opinions from Middle East observers on the upcoming U.S. elections, and its implications on Palestine, Lebanon and both Muslim and Arab voters. Kawaakibi will also be hosting an online event on November 12th on the... read more
If we lose the ability to hold accountable, we lose the future. The US election presents a crushing reality: Kamala Harris' administration is actively complicit in a genocide, whilst Donald Trump competes with her on doubling down on “finishing the job", accusing her of obstructing an already accelerated... read more
Ever since the George W. Bush-era wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the so-called “War on Terror,” successive US presidential candidates, both Republican and Democrat, have campaigned on a promise of reducing the US footprint in the Middle East. Whilst different candidates outline different pathways to achieve that... read more
Many are asking how this U.S. election cycle impacts Palestine—but perhaps a more fitting question is how Palestine is impacting this U.S. election. Still, both questions merit an answer. The choice is between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Trump, whose foreign policy in his previous term laid... read more
I was sitting in my dentist's chair when I received a message from my wife: "They are bombing us." The roads I’m so used to driving became treacherous as airstrikes rang out around me, some as close as 500 metres from my home. Within hours,... read more
