The mood in the White House is changing. Congress has moved further: all it might take for key statutory sanctions

Read my latest with Roaa Obaid on the captagon threat after Assad’s downfall for the New lines Institute • 200M

To grasp how persistent statutory sanctions can be, recall that Iraq remained on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list for

As the EU moves toward lifting all sectoral sanctions on Syria, we highlight how many targeted sanctions can have a

At the Khasb Conference, I highlighted a few points: – Since the cost of policy interventions is generally higher in

Monetary policy moves in the right direction. Over the past few weeks, we’ve started to see: -Unification of the multiple

Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Syrian writer, dissident, and former political prisoner, on the legacy of massacres and sectarian governance. Full essay.

In the months following the Assad regime’s collapse, Syria witnessed a dramatic inflation reversal, from 109.5% in February 2024 to

Excited to start a new role as Chief Economic Consultant to the Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in