FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute about Jordan, the Gulf and US policy on Palestine. They also discuss the Biden administration’s complicity in genocide, who is profiting from the mass killing, and what careerism means for those who have chosen to continue to serve in the State Dept.
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Recorded November 11, 2025
Participant Biographies
Annelle Sheline, Ph.D., is a research fellow in the Quincy Institute’s Middle East program. She previously served as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor’s Office of Near Eastern Affairs (DRL/NEA), before resigning in March 2024 in protest over the Biden administration’s unconditional support for Israeli military operations in Gaza.
Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian-American writer born in Gaza and a 2025 Fellow at FMEP. He is an advisory board member of the US Campaign for Palestinian rights, co-editor of After Zionism (Saqi Books) and is currently writing a book about Palestine. He also currently serves on the board of the Independence Media Foundation. His work has been published in The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Nation, and elsewhere. He earned a BA at the University of Pennsylvania and an MPP at Harvard University. You can follow Ahmed on Substack at: https://ahmedmoor.substack.com/
Resources
- “Jordan on the Edge: Pressures from the War in Gaza and the Incoming Trump Administration” (Quincy Institute, 12/16/24)
- “Biden Discussed Potential Israeli War Crimes In Gaza. He Kicked The Can To Trump.” (Huffington Post, 11/7/25)
- “Who Profits? US Corporations and the Whitewashing of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza” (Annelle Sheline, Arab Center DC, 11/10/25)