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Dr. Azeem Ibrahim

Dr. Azeem Ibrahim is the Director of Special Initiatives at the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington D.C. and author of “The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Genocide” (Hurst, 2017). Twitter: @AzeemIbrahim

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Why UN’s Rohingya conference must deliver

In September, the UN will convene a high-level conference to address what is arguably one of the world’s most protracted and neglected humanitarian catastrophes: the Rohingya crisis.

July 11, 2025

Arakan Army may be an unexpected ally for the Rohingya

In a striking twist of geopolitical irony, one of the most persecuted Muslim communities in the world — the Rohingya — may find their most realistic path home not through the government of Myanmar or through international institutions, but via an unlikely actor: the Arakan Army.

June 19, 2025