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Farrah Zughni

Farrah Zughni, Managing EditorFarrah Zughni became managing editor of Arms Control Today in October 2010. Before joining ACA, she was an editor and writer at NOW Lebanon, an online news Web site. She has also worked and interned with a number of D.C. organizations including the Arab American Institute, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, and AMIDEAST. Farrah has a master’s degree in Arab and Middle East Studies from the American University of Beirut and a B.A. in government and philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Recent Publications

  • Bid to Craft Arms Trade Treaty Stalls
    Arms Control Today
    August 30, 2012

    A month-long UN diplomatic conference to negotiate the first-ever treaty to regulate the international arms trade failed to reach consensus on a final document by its July 27 deadline as a handful of key countries, including the United States, said they needed additional time to resolve their concerns with the proposed draft of the pact.
  • Arms Trade Treaty Talks Set to Begin
    Arms Control Today
    July 5, 2012

    Delegates gathering at the United Nations this month to negotiate a treaty regulating the international arms trade will have to resolve a number of issues concerning the pact’s objectives and scope that remain unsettled since the UN General Assembly decided in 2009 to convene the conference, representatives from a broad range of countries said in June interviews and earlier statements.
  • Plans for Syrian Chemical Stocks Drafted
    Arms Control Today
    July 5, 2012

    Amid ongoing concerns about the fate of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile, officials in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East are making plans to secure it once the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad falls.
  • Pentagon Defends Arms Buy From Russia
    Arms Control Today
    May 31, 2012

    The Department of Defense is responding to congressional criticism of its purchase of helicopters from a Russian firm that also is supplying arms to the Syrian government, saying the aircraft are central to U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and have qualities that the alternatives do not
  • U.S. Plans to Sell Bahrain More Arms
    Arms Control Today
    May 31, 2012

    The Department of State last month announced plans to deliver military equipment and services to Bahrain despite ongoing allegations of human rights abuses by the Persian Gulf state’s government.