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  • This house, as the Jordanian government, W actively attempt to incorporate refugees into its regular workforce.

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    After the early 2010s, when multiple Arab nations experienced political conflict, Jordan saw a massive influx of refugees from nearby countries, such as Syria, Iraq, and Palestine. Some refugees are hosted in UNHCR refugee camps, but many reside in urban and rural areas. These refugees mainly depend on financial support from the international community or informal economy (e.g. daily construction works, small-scale home-based business, etc.) unless the Ministry of Labor issues them a work permit, which refugees hardly obtain.

    Malaysia United Asian Debating Championship 2023 · EFL Semifinals · 2023-06-16

  • This house believes that the decision to normalize the relationship with Bashar al-Assad is in the interest of the Arab League.

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    Ever since the start of the civil war in 2011, the authoritarian president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, was isolated from Arab League. Recently, however, Assad attended the 32nd summit of the Arab League held in Saudi Arabia, where leaders of Middle East nations envisioned addressing the crises occurring in the region.

    Malaysia United Asian Debating Championship 2023 · EFL Semifinals · 2023-06-16

  • This house believes that China should aggressively position itself to broker peace in Sudan.

    Infoslide

    1) Since April 2023, Sudan has been experiencing an armed conflict between two rival factions of the military government - the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and generals of the Sudanese army. 2) Previously, various regional actors such as Ethiopia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia etc. and the US have attempted to broker peace between both parties. 3) Traditionally, China has had a non-interference policy when dealing with civil strifes in strategic regions.

    DTU Summers Pre-UADC 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-06-01

  • This house believes that it is in the best interest of the EU to lift sanctions against the Taliban

    Royalties Debate Open Championships 2023 - Southern Region · Round 2 · 2023-05-26

  • This house, as the USA, would cut ties with Saudi Arabia

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    Saudi Arabia has been a key partner of the US in the Middle East since the conception of the nation in its current form. It has played a key role in allowing the US to project power in the Middle East, with Saudi Arabia playing a key role in Operation Desert Storm and Desert Shield (the Coalition attack on Iraqi forces stationed in Kuwait in 1991). However Saudi Arabia has been widely criticised for multiple human rights abuses and violation of the sovereignty of Yemen.

    Durham Schools 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-05-26

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of Türkiye for Erdogan to win the presidential election

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    Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is a Turkish politician, the leader of a 6-party opposition coalition (consisting of parties that span across the left-right political spectrum) and a presidential candidate during the 2023 election. In the first round of the election, Erdogan scored 49.51% against Kılıçdaroğlu’s 44.88%, which created the necessity for a second round, leading to a second round as neither candidate reached the required 50% threshold.

    Sofia Online · Round 3 · 2023-05-20

  • This house believes that the 'Pan-Islamism' in the foreign policy discourse of Turkey has done more harm than good.

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    Pan-Islamism is an ideology calling for the unity of Muslim peoples worldwide based on their shared Islamic identity. In a modern context, Turkey has been espousing such ideas with the romanticization of the past Ottoman empire, calling for strong cohesion within Islam nations and positioning themselves against the Western worldview.

    HUFS IV 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-05-13

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of Middle Eastern governments to cooperate with Western efforts to assassinate terrorist leaders under their jurisdiction

    Sunway Asian Parliamentary 2023 · High School Finals · 2023-05-01

  • This house opposes Syria's re-entry into Arab League

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    The Arab League is a union of Arabic-speaking African and Asian countries. It was formed in Cairo in 1945 to promote the independence, sovereignty, affairs, and interests of its member countries and observers. Its aims include strengthening and coordinating the political, cultural, economic, and social programs of its members and to mediate disputes among them or between them and third parties. The founding member states were Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq,Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Syria was ousted from the Arab League in 2011 following President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on prodemocracy protests, which led to the ongoing civil war in the country. More than a decade later, with Bashar still in power in Syria, The Arab League voted to reinstate Syria’s membership into the organization.

    Polemic 2024 · Open Quarter Finals · 2023-04-17

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of the Middle East for USA to slowly pivot away from Saudi.

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    A) In recent times, there has been an increase in Saudi- China ties through major economic deals and reinstating Saudi - Iran diplomatic ties which has been brokered by China. B) Recently, the US has been reluctant to accept Saudi demands of lesser restrictions of american arms sale and demands for help to develop a civilian nuclear program.

    Vitark 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-04-14

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of Saudi Arabia to develop closer ties with China, even if this will substantially weaken ties with the US.

    HWS RR 2023 · 2 · 2023-04-01

  • That the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should adopt a policy of not bailing out countries that take out significant loans from China under BRI

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    Under China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China has made major infrastructure investments including ports, skyscrapers, railroads, roads, bridges, airports, dams, coal-fired power stations, and railroad tunnels throughout other countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In exchange, those countries form closer economic, political, and diplomatic relationships with China, and pay debt back to China directly. An IMF bailout is a more global form of direct financial support (e.g. via monetary loans) to countries hit by crises to help implement policies that restore economic stability and growth. It also provides precautionary financing to help prevent crises.

    Eastside Debating Competition 2023 Year 12 · Round 3 · 2023-03-17

  • This House Believes that Western tech companies should enter into authoritarian markets, even at the expense of conforming to local laws and regulations (e.g China, Saudi Arabia, Qatar)

    Infoslide

    For the purpose of this debate, the 'test of God' refers to the narrative in which religious followers are taught that their difficulties in life (which may include but are not limited to personal struggles, relationship woes, economic difficulties, natural disasters) are tests of God through which their spiritual and emotional strengths are tested.

    LUMS IV 2023 · 4 · 2023-03-10

  • This House believes that literary journalists should publish their experience of living with an oppressed community anonymously.

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    After Israel allowed its Lebanese allies to massacre Palestinian refugees in Beirut in 1982, sending the remaining refugees in hiding. In the wake of the massacre, Jean Genet, a white French gay writer, stayed with Palestinian refugees, for a period of six months. This resulted in a moving, poetic account of literary journalism entitled “Four Hours in Shatila”, detailing the harrowed sufferings of the Palestinian refugees as witnessed by Genet. An excerpt from the text: “A photograph doesn’t show the flies nor the thick white smell of death. Neither does it show how you must jump over the bodies as you walk along from one corpse to the next.” In the same vein, Arundhati Roy’s “Walking with the Comrades” is a riveting account of the face-off between the Indian state and the Naxals. Staying with them for a period of time, Roy describes her days among the strategists and footsoldiers of the Naxal movement as she walks, eats and sleeps with them in the densest forests of Jharkhand.

    Lloyd Parliamentary Debate · Grand Final · 2023-03-01