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Middle east

Voices

Conversation series aims to foster dialogue on difficult topics

Published Jan 23, 2025

'Conflict in the Middle East: Contexts and Ramifications' will bring together experts from a variety of perspectives while demonstrating that civil discussions can take place around contentious and complex issues

Steven David holds class outside in March 2024

Q+A

Students debate Israel's future in long-running Hopkins course

Published May 16, 2024

Steven David's course helps students form and share thoughtful opinions about one of the most polarizing conflicts of our time

Buildings in Gaza are surrounded by smoke during an aerial bombing.

Q+A

Experts estimate scenarios for excess deaths in Gaza

Published April 15, 2024

Johns Hopkins civil and systems engineering professor Tak Igusa explains how the research team modeled projections of future casualties from trauma, infectious diseases, and other factors in Gaza

A soldier sits atop a barricade, silhouetted and surrounded by coils of barbed wire

Q+A

The rules of war and human rights

Published Oct 27, 2023

Human rights expert Len Rubenstein explains how laws governing war apply to health and human rights in the evolving Israel-Gaza conflict

Two adults and a child walk through the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City

Q+A

Humanitarian health in Gaza

Published Oct 20, 2023

Frayed health care and an overwhelmed global humanitarian system imperil the health of civilians in Gaza, cautions Hopkins expert Paul Spiegel

Commentary

Suleimani assassination 'pulverizes' U.S. influence in Middle East

Published Jan 6, 2020

JHU experts on the Middle East, international relations, and political science discuss the role Qassim Suleimani played in Iran's military and the potential fallout from his assassination by U.S. drone strike