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      Hussein Ibish

      Hussein Ibish

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      Hussein Ibish is a geopolitical analyst and an author, who is currently a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He was previously the Washington correspondent for the Daily Star Lebanon newspaper, and has served as a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine and as communications director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. He has a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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      CommentDecember 06, 2020
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      CommentNovember 15, 2020
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      There are reasons for both Democrats and Republicans to be happy

      American democratic norms and processes prevailed

      CommentNovember 09, 2020
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      2020 US election is not just Trump v Biden

      This electoral battle is between two visions of what the United States is and ought to be

      CommentNovember 01, 2020
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      Donald Trump's 3-step plan to cling to power

      It starts with making voters question whether they can even trust the elections at all

      CommentSeptember 27, 2020
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      CommentSeptember 08, 2020
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