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Southern Exposure: Trump’s Arrest of Maduro Brings Opportunities and Dangers

📺: Watch this episode on YouTube here. The arrest of Nicolás Maduro was a complex operation that exposed the weakness of a narco-dictatorship and sent a clear signal to America’s adversaries. In short: it was a tactical success. But taking out a dictator is not the same as disma ...  Show more

Recognizing Somaliland

For more than three decades, Somaliland has functioned as a free, independent, Muslim, pro-peace, anti-Islamist republic on the Horn of Africa. Now, Israel has formally recognized it as a sovereign state. Somaliland’s bad neighbor, Somalia, and other Islamist regimes are furious. ...  Show more

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In this episode of Hold Your Fire!, Richard is joined by Crisis Group’s North Africa director Riccardo Fabiani, U.S. director Michael Hanna and Dareen Khalifa, Crisis Group’s senior dialogue adviser, to talk about the Gaza war’s impact on Egypt. They assess the latest ...

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3. Six Days in June 1967 with Khaled Fahmy
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رفح: هل يعد توغل إسرائيل المحتمل خرقا لمعاهدة كامب ديفيد مع مصر؟
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‏يصررئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي على اجتياح مدينة رفح جنوب غزة. وهو ما ترفضه القاهرة بشدة . فما الذي تنص عليه معاهدة السلام بين مصر و إسرائيل بخصوص رفح؟ رفح مدينة تقع على الحدود المصرية مع قطاع غزة ، كانت سابقاً منطقة واحدة ثم قسمت إلى منطقتين إحداها تتبع لمصروأخرى ضمن قطاع غزة. قال و ...  Show more

The Arab- Israeli War: Yom Kippur War 1973
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