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Hani Hazaimeh

Hani Hazaimeh is a senior editor, based in Amman. X: @hanihazaimeh

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Lifting the Caesar sanctions: A long-overdue opportunity for Syria and a test for its new leaders

The decision last week by the US to lift the Caesar Act sanctions imposed on Syria is, without exaggeration, one of the most consequential and constructive shifts in international policy toward the country since the civil war began in 2011.

December 26, 2025

Trump’s peace plan and Netanyahu’s failed gamble

US President Donald Trump’s newly announced plan to end the Israeli aggression on Gaza has injected a rare note of cautious hope into one of the darkest chapters of the modern Middle East.

September 30, 2025

Recognition of Palestine: a strategic recalibration of the global conscience

As the world confronts the moral collapse unfolding in Gaza and the dangerous entrenchment of unilateralism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the international community is beginning to coalesce around a long-delayed imperative: formal recognition of the state of Palestine.

August 08, 2025