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July 26, 2011

Middle East and North Africa
Will the Arab League Pay for Palestine?

Will the Arab League pay up? Because donors are not meeting their pledges,  the Palestinian Authority is nearly broke and cannot meet its payroll. The PA told a specially convened session of the Ara…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

November 28, 2011

Middle East and North Africa
Arab League Turns on Assad

The Arab League statement this past weekend marks a significant break with the Assad regime in Syria. I wrote a short piece about this in National Review magazine, concluding this way: "There were e…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

November 15, 2011

Syria
Syria’s Arab League Suspension

CFR’s Robert Danin says the Arab League’s move to suspend Syria opens the door for greater action by the international community.

Explainer Video by Robert Danin

February 11, 2014

United States
The Obama Administration’s Upcoming Arab Outreach

President Obama meets King Abdullah of Jordan on Friday in California. The president will also travel to Saudi Arabia in March, just after Secretary of State John Kerry makes a special stop in the Un…

U.S. president Barack Obama (R) meets with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington June 29, 2010 (Downing/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Robert Danin Middle East Matters

January 28, 2011

Middle East and North Africa
The Arab World’s ’Unprecedented’ Protests

The level of public anger against homegrown problems in Egypt and other Arab countries is something new, and it pushes the Obama administration back in the direction of the Bush-era "freedom agenda,"…

Interview by Robert Danin and Bernard Gwertzman Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Program