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In short

Our in-shorts offer novel analytical insights into problems of immediate relevance to public debate. While less comprehensive than slow reads, these five-minute snapshots draw on an equally extensive body of ongoing research and in-house expertise.


Bread for berries

Mapping the Mediterranean’s food trade

Drying out, drinking up

Mapping the Middle East’s water use

The seventh plague of Syria

A deluge of drugs

A flood of concrete

Iraq’s construction boom threatens its food

The point of odious return

Syrian misery in motion

Sowing like there’s no tomorrow

Northeast Syria’s agricultural recovery

More than a pinch

Mapping MENA's desalination boom

Pity the land

Lebanese food needs Lebanese agriculture

Shrinking shelters

The silent distress of Palestinians in Lebanon

Picking empty pockets

Syria's remittance economy

Last sheikh standing

What is left of northeast Syria’s tribes?

Covid and the camps

Why Palestinian refugees and Lebanese must join forces

Healing Lebanon

Start with the health sector

Du sucre pour le Liban diabétique

Le coûteux refinancement de la dette

Reaping fire

Syria’s fateful harvest

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