Arab Center Washington DC
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Arab Center Washington DC is a nonprofit, independent, and nonpartisan research organization dedicated to furthering the political, economic, and social understanding of the Arab world in the United States.
Join Arab Center Washington DC’s 3rd Annual Palestine Conference, “Shifting Tides: Palestine, US Elections, and Pathways Forward.” 📅 Sept. 23 | 9 AM–3 PM ET 📍 National Press Club, DC RSVP👇 https://arabcenterdc.org/event/shifting-tides-palestine-us-elections-and-pathways-forward/
Examine the latest developments in #Sudan’s war and its direction with Mai Hassan, Kholood Khair, Khaldah Salih, Adeeb Yousif, Mohammed Abu-Nimer & Tamara Kharroub. 📅 Aug. 6 | 10 AM ET RSVP👇 https://arabcenterdc.org/event/sudans-war-humanitarian-cost-prospects-for-peace-and-potential-ways-forward/
Join Susan M. Akram, Dana El Kurd, Daniel Levy, Mohammed Mhawish, and Yousef Munayyer to assess where the Board of Peace plan stands and whether it has any chance of success. 📅 July 30 | ⏰ 10:00–11:30 AM ET https://arabcenterdc.org/event/the-board-of-peaces-gaza-plan-broken-or-working-as-intended/
Join us to assess the geopolitical consequences of the Iran war and the contours of a shifting regional order in the Middle East. 📅 July 21 | ⏰ 11 AM ET https://arabcenterdc.org/event/iran-war-aftershocks-and-reshaping-the-regional-order-assessing-the-us-iran-and-lebanon-israel-agreements/
Join Arab Center Washington DC and CCAS to assess the US-Israeli war on Iran’s consequences for Iraq and its governance, security, and economic challenges. July 9 | 10:00–11:30 AM ET RSVP 👇 https://arabcenterdc.org/event/iraq-in-the-wake-of-the-iran-war-governance-security-and-economic-challenges/
Join Arab Center Washington DC and Rice University’s Baker Institute for a webinar on how the conflict is affecting the global economy and energy markets in both the short and long term. Register 👇 https://arabcenterdc.org/event/the-impacts-of-the-iran-war-on-the-global-economy-and-energy-markets/
Support in the #US Senate for blocking arms sales to #Israel has grown since 2024. Although the latest resolutions failed, 85% of Senate Democrats voted in April 2026 to halt such sales. Learn more 👇 https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/shifting-voting-trends-in-the-us-senate-on-arms-sales-to-israel/
Join us to explore the current state of transitional justice in Syria and the significance and limitations of recent prosecutions. 📅 June 3, 2026 | ⏰ 10:00 AM ET | 💻 Zoom RSVP Now 👇 https://arabcenterdc.org/event/transitional-justice-and-accountability-efforts-in-syria-challenges-and-prospects/
📣 The call for applications for the eighth #ACRPS International Winter School #IWS8, titled “Migrant Communities in an Age of Resurgent Nativism: Rethinking the Questions of Citizenship and Belonging,” is now open. 📅 January 9–14, 2027 | 📍Doha, Qatar | ⏳ Apply by July 1, 2026 https://acr.ps/hBxNM4x
🗺️ Between October 2023 and July 2025, the Israeli Knesset passed more than 30 laws deepening its apartheid regime and intensifying its repression of Palestinians. Learn more in our infographic👇 https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/a-new-wave-of-discriminatory-israeli-laws-targeting-palestinians/
Join us to examine developments in Palestine since the onset of the Iran war and how Israel has used the conflict to advance annexation objectives. 📅 May 20 | ⏰ 10:00 AM ET | 💻 Zoom https://arabcenterdc.org/event/palestine-under-the-cover-of-the-iran-war-oppression-and-ethnic-cleansing-escalate/
Join ACW and Badil for a webinar with Tarek Mitri, Rola El-Husseini, Sami Halabi, Raya Jalabi, and Nasser Yassin on Lebanon’s fragile ceasefire and the unresolved questions of sovereignty, deterrence, and recovery. https://arabcenterdc.org/event/ceasefire-in-lebanon-between-negotiation-and-reality/
Arab Center Washington DC announces that Daniel Neep has assumed the role of Director of Publications and Senior Fellow. He brings extensive academic and policy experience focused on Syria and the Levant.
Thank you for joining our 11th Annual Conference, Trump’s Second Term: Upending Democracy, Development, and Diplomacy. Learn more at the event page below: https://arabcenterdc.org/event/trump-second-term-upending-democracy-development-and-diplomacy/
“Palestine has been an issue that has resonated with Democratic voters for years, and they read candidates who don’t get it as inauthentic. ” 🎙️James J. Zogby delivered his remarks at our 11th Annual Conference, Trump’s Second Term: Upending Democracy, Development, and Diplomacy.
“The key moments moving forward should be looking at how this war is going to end and what, if any, fallout there is going to be between Trump and Netanyahu as a result.” Yousef Munayyer speaking at our 11th Annual Conference, Trump’s Second Term: Upending Democracy, Development, and Diplomacy.
“The foreign policy consensus that helped carry #Trump to victory in 2016 and 2024 is not going to be available to whoever runs eventually in 2028.” Charles W. Dunne speaking at our 11th Annual Conference, Trump’s Second Term: Upending Democracy, Development, and Diplomacy.
“It has actually become a mark of shame for some Democratic candidates to have received money from AIPAC. There have been candidates giving that money back and disavowing it.” Carrie Dann speaking at our 11th Annual Conference, Trump’s Second Term: Upending Democracy, Development, and Diplomacy.
Welcome remarks from Tamara Kharroub, Deputy Executive Director and Senior Fellow of Arab Center Washington DC, at our 11th Annual Conference, Trump’s Second Term: Upending Democracy, Development, and Diplomacy.
Khalil E. Jahshan, Executive Director of Arab Center Washington DC, delivered welcome remarks, panel remarks, and presenting the ACW Excellence Award 2026 to honoree Noura Erakat at our 11th Annual Conference, Trump’s Second Term: Upending Democracy, Development, and Diplomacy.
Honoring Noura Erakat, recipient of the ACW Excellence Award 2026, at our 11th Annual Conference, Trump’s Second Term: Upending Democracy, Development, and Diplomacy.
“When you have no functional opposition in the United States, you have the Palestinians utterly marginalized and invisibilized in the process.” Lara Friedman speaking at our 11th Annual Conference, Trump’s Second Term: Upending Democracy, Development, and Diplomacy.
“We should never forget that the current situation in the #MiddleEast began with Biden and his refusal to put pressure on #Israel to act differently in #Gaza.” Marc Lynch speaking at our 11th Annual Conference, Trump’s Second Term: Upending Democracy, Development, and Diplomacy.
“The #GCC is going to ask whether it can rely on the #UnitedStates, and I think the answer is quite clearly that it cannot. Those bases were not a deterrence against Iranian attacks; they became a target of those attacks.” Trita Parsi speaking at our 11th Annual Conference!
“The basic problem President Trump faces is that he can’t escalate because the Iranians control the Strait of Hormuz, can wreck the GCC countries, and do enormous damage to Israel. There’s no exit option here except admitting defeat.” 🎙️ John J. Mearsheimer's remarks at our 11th Annual Conference.
“With the Iran war, Trump’s transactional approach to the MENA is beginning to erode.” 🗓️ Shana R. Marshall will join our 11th Annual Conference on April 9, 2026. RSVP now to hear from her👇 arabcenterdc.org/event/trump-second-term-upending-democracy-development-and-diplomacy/
John J. Mearsheimer, American political scientist and international relations scholar, will deliver the keynote address at our 11th Annual Conference on April 9, 2026 🗓️. RSVP to hear from his remarks 👇 arabcenterdc.org/event/trump-second-term-upending-democracy-development-and-diplomacy/