At least a dozen countries, including the U.S., have suspended funding to the United Nations agency that delivers aid to Palestinian refugees. The cuts fit a long-time pattern of the politicization of refugee aid, write Nicholas R. Micinski and Kelsey Norman.
Nicholas R. Micinski, Kelsey NormanFebruary 1, 2024
Fellow Kelsey Norman edited the Winter 2021 issue of the Digest of Middle East Studies, focused on how migration in the Middle East has changed in the ten years since the Arab uprisings. Read her introduction here.
Baker Institute director Edward P. Djerejian, former ambassador to Israel and to Syria, appeared on Al-Jazeera's "From Washington"
program to discuss the possible consequences of Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance (Arabic): https://youtu.be/J7-xALrG_3s.
Baker Institute director Edward P. Djerejian comments on a welcome moment of nonpartisanship after the April 21, 2018, funeral for former first lady Barbara Bush.
On Monday, three committees in Mexico’s senate — constitutional issues, energy and legislative studies — voted to bring an energy reform bill to the chamber’s floor for debate. The legislation would provide international oil companies the opportunity to participate in profit-sharing contracts and concession-like licenses for energy operations in Mexico, and it is expected to become law by the end of the legislative session Dec. 15.
