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Middle east

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
Qassim Suleimani's grave
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
Narges Bajoghli
Interview
Talking with Narges Bajoghli
Published Fall 2019
The anthropologist, filmmaker, and writer discusses her debut book, an inside look on being pro-regime in Iran / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Two people in the foreground cover their faces with scarves while protesters behind them burn papers in an open fire
Global affairs
Why thousands are protesting in Iran
Published Jan 4, 2018
Experts Vali Nasr, Ryan Calder discuss the economic causes of and political fallout from Iran's demonstrations
Donald Trump
Commentary
Trump's 'strategic blunder' on Iran
Published Oct 13, 2017
SAIS Dean Vali Nasr says decertifying nuclear deal is mistake that will define president's foreign policy legacy
MIDDLE EAST
A year after Hajj tragedy, political tensions linger
Published Sept 8, 2016
As annual pilgrimage to Mecca begins, SAIS Dean Vali Nasr discusses ongoing conflict between Saudi Arabia, Iran / NPR
Donald Trump shrugs at podium at Phoenix rally
Election 2016
Who founded ISIS? It's complicated
Published Aug 12, 2016
SAIS Dean Vali Nasr links rise of Islamic terror group to sectarian conflict in Iraq, 2003 U.S. invasion / The Huffington Post