Five Questions

Hanna Alshaikh, Yara M. Asi, Rami G. Khouri, and Yousef Munayyer discuss the expansion of the Gaza war into a regional war, the Israeli assault on Lebanon, and the Iranian missile strike on Israel.

Hanna Alshaikh, Yara Asi, Rami Khouri, and Yousef Munayyer discuss the war on Gaza, the escalating Israeli military campaign in the West Bank, anti-war campus protests, and the upcoming US Presidential Elections.

Mariam Barghouti and Yousef Munayyer discuss the dangerous situation in the West Bank, as well as how Palestinians are experiencing an unprecedented rise in Israeli military and settler violence. Barghouti is a journalist and writer based in the West Bank, and her analysis has been featured in several prominent news outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and others.

Reem Abbas and Yousef Munayyer discuss the civil war in Sudan, which started a year ago in April 2023 and has regional actors supporting different sides of the conflict. Abbas is the Mohamed Aboelgheit Fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.

Dr. Thaer Ahmad and Yousef Munayyer discuss Israel's war on Gaza's health system and Dr. Ahmad's decision to walk out of a Ramadan dinner in the White House. Dr. Ahmad is an emergency medicine physician based in Chicago, and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Illinois. He spent time volunteering in Gaza's hospitals during Israel's war on the Strip.

Josh Paul and Yousef Munayyer discuss US weapons sales to Israel during the war on Gaza. Paul is the former Director of Congressional and Public Affairs at the US Department of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which oversees arms transfers to foreign nations.

Yara M. Asi and Yousef Munayyer discuss how Israel has been targeting the healthcare system in Gaza in order to drive Palestinians out of their towns. Asi is a Non-resident Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC and Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida in the School of Global Health Management and Informatics.

Maysaa Shujaa al-Deen and Yousef Munayyer discuss the current situation in Yemen and the role of the Houthis in the regional unrest triggered by Israel's war on Gaza. Shujaa al-Deen is a senior researcher at the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies.

Farah Nabulsi and Yousef Munayyer discuss her film The Present, which tells the story of a Palestinian father and daughter in the West Bank trying to buy a wedding anniversary gift but having to navigate the Israeli system of apartheid on their way home. Nabulsi is an Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning British-Palestinian filmmaker and human rights advocate.

Nathan Thrall and Yousef Munayyer discuss Thrall's new book detailing the experience of a Palestinian father searching for his missing son and how the system of Israeli apartheid complicates his efforts at every turn. Nathan Thrall is also the author of The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine (Metropolitan, 2017). He spent a decade at the International Crisis Group, where he was director of the Arab-Israeli Project, and has taught at Bard College.