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Ghaith al-Omari is a senior fellow in the Irwin Levy Family Program on the U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is the former executive director of the American Task Force on Palestine and has also held a variety of positions within the Palestinian Authority, including as adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team during the 1999–2001 permanent status negotiations with Israel.

The Middle East Institute’s Lebanon Program is pleased to host its inaugural Lebanon Policy Conference in collaboration with the American Task Force on Lebanon and LIFE. This two-part series of events will take place on May 26-27 and June 1-4 to tackle the urgency and viable paths forward for Lebanon's political, financial and humanitarian crises.

Brief Analysis Has the two-year quiet between Israel and Hamas ended, and will violence spill into the West Bank? Join us for an expert webcast to explore the situation and what Washington can do to help de-escalate the situation. Watch live starting at 12:00 noon EDT on Friday, May 14, 2021. Amid days of tensions in Jerusalem, mass rocket launches by Hamas, and widespread violence encompassing Tel Aviv, Gaza, and other areas, many are wondering what caused this resurgence in conflict and where it might lead. Has the two-year quiet between Israel and Hamas ended, and will the violence spill o...

How Afghanistan’s President Helped His Brother Secure Lucrative Mining Deals with a U.S. Contractor This article was written by our Investigator Zack Kopplin and was originally published here.  Afghanistan’s crags and valleys hold at least a trillion dollars’ worth of minerals, first mapped by Soviet geologists in the 1970s. Local warlords and foreign powers have plundered these deposits ever since. The Taliban and other armed groups have battled both the central government and each other for control of the mines, using them to fund their insurgencies. Even former U.S. President Dona...

Damaged furniture is seen in the foreground as people attend Sunday mass at the partially damaged St. Antoine Church on August 16, 2020, in Beirut, Lebanon. The explosion at Beirut’s port last week killed over 200 people, injured thousands, and upended countless lives. There has been little visible support from government agencies to help residents clear debris and help the displaced, although scores of volunteers from around Lebanon have descended on the city to help clean. | Getty Images/Chris McGrath Lebanon, known as a haven for Christianity in the Middle East, is on the brink of fina...