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Middle East Institute (MEI)

Founded in 1946, the Middle East Institute is the oldest Washington-based institution dedicated solely to the study of the Middle East. It is a non-partisan think tank providing expert policy analysis, educational and professional development services, and a hub for engaging with the region's arts and culture. Our Mission: to increase knowledge of the Middle East among citizens of the United States and to promote a better understanding between the people of these two areas.
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• February 06, 2025 Barbara A. Leaf on US Leadership and Engagement in the Middle East
  By: Brian Katulis, Barbara A. Leaf
• February 04, 2025 Virtual Briefing Series | Gaza’s Future: Its Neighbors and Trump Weigh In
  By: Eyal Hulata, Mirette Mabrouk
• January 21, 2025 Virtual Briefing Series | Trump and the Middle East: A new beginning or business as usual?
  By: Kenneth Pollack, Brian Katulis
• December 12, 2024 The Fall of Assad, the Future of Syria, and a Region Redrawn
  By: Brian Katulis, Gonul Tol, Charles Lister, Wael Alzayat, Paul Salem, Nimrod Goren
• December 10, 2024 Virtual Briefing Series | End of an era: the fall of the Assad regime
  By: Ryan Crocker, Charles Lister
• November 21, 2024 How might US-Israeli relations evolve under the Trump administration?
  By: Nimrod Goren, Ilai Saltzman
• November 14, 2024 1,000 days of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine
  By: Philip Breedlove, Iulia-sabina Joja, Matthew Czekaj
• November 12, 2024 How might the second Trump administration navigate the Middle East?
  By: Ryan Crocker, Gerald Feierstein
• October 17, 2024 Virtual briefing: The risk of targeting regional energy assets in the ongoing Middle East conflict
  By: Helima Croft, Colby Connelly, Karen Young
• October 03, 2024 Yemen's civil war: ten years later
  By: Gerald Feierstein, Nadwa Al-Dawsari, Fatima Abo Alasrar
• September 26, 2024 Rethinking Democracy ep. 4: China's growing presence in the Middle East with Dr. F. Gregory Gause and Dr. Jon Alterman
  By: F. Gregory Gause, Jon B. Alterman, Gonul Tol
• September 11, 2024 The caucasus: peace negotiations and the global energy transition
  By: Middle East Institute (MEI)
• September 11, 2024 Black sea security: Romania’s military modernization and Armenia’s foreign policy reorientation
  By: Middle East Institute (MEI)
• August 21, 2024 ISIS’s enduring threat in Syria and Iraq
  By: Charles Lister, Alistair Taylor
• June 20, 2024 The ramifications of the surge in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah
  By: Gerald Feierstein, Eran Etzion, Charles Lister
• May 30, 2024 American diplomacy toward Lebanon with Amb. David Hale
  By: David Hale, Fadi Nicholas Nassar
• May 03, 2024 Tackling the proxy problem: Mitigating the threat posed by Iran's "Axis of Resistance"
  By: Alex Vatanka, Nadwa Al-Dawsari, Sabri Ates
• May 03, 2024 Avoiding a second front: De-escalating simmering tensions between Israel and Hezbollah
  By: Paul Salem, Patricia Karam, James F. Hollifield
• May 03, 2024 Silencing the guns: Bringing the war in Gaza to a sustainable end
  By: Brian Katulis, Khaled Elgindy, James F. Hollifield
• May 01, 2024 What’s next in the Israel-Iran conflict?
  By: Eran Etzion, Mick Mulroy, Alex Vatanka
• March 13, 2024 Expert Voices: Iran’s record-low election turnout
  By: Alex Vatanka
• March 07, 2024 Deal or No Deal: The Road to a Cease-fire in Gaza and on the Lebanon-Israel Border
  By: Gerald Feierstein, Randa Slim
• March 06, 2024 Risks and challenges to oil and gas markets in the current Middle East conflict
  By: Colby Connelly, Emily Stromquist, Karen Young, Yesar Al-Maleki, Nikolay Kozhanov
• February 22, 2024 The Invasion of Rafah
  By: Eran Etzion, Mirette F. Mabrouk
• February 21, 2024 What’s next for Pakistan after election shock?
  By: Tamkinet Karim, Syed Mohammed Ali, Alistair Taylor
• February 16, 2024 China’s Role in the Middle East
  By: John Calabrese, Yun Sun
• February 15, 2024 A Strategy for Countering the Houthi Threat at Sea
  By: Bilal Y. Saab , Nancy Youssef, Kevin Donegan
• February 13, 2024 Iran’s 1979 revolution and its resonance today
  By: Alex Vatanka, Alistair Taylor
• February 08, 2024 Iranian Proxies in Iraq and Syria
  By: Charles Lister, Douglas London
• February 04, 2024 Spotlight on US Syria policy
  By: Charles Lister, Alistair Taylor
• February 01, 2024 US Military Action in the Middle East
  By: Joseph Votel, Gerald Feierstein
• January 29, 2024 The Gaza War's Regional Reverberations
  By: Randa Slim, Alistair Taylor
• January 29, 2024 Bahraini Artists Across Borders
  By: Marwa Al Khalifa, Mashael Alsaie, Jaafar Al Oraibi
• January 26, 2024 Ties Between Hostile Actors in the Red Sea
  By: Mirette F. Mabrouk, Guled Ahmed, Thomas Halvorsen
• January 17, 2024 How Safe is Eastern Mediterranean Gas?
  By: Colby Connelly, Gregory Brew, Karen Young
• January 11, 2024 Expert Voices: Geopolitical Implications of the Ethiopia-Somaliland Partnership
  By: Middle East Institute (MEI)
• January 10, 2024 Antisemitism and Islamophobia in the US political discourse on Israel/Palestine
  By: Sahar Aziz, Mitchell Plitnick
• January 10, 2024 Houthi Shipping Attacks in the Red Sea
  By: Kevin Donegan, Sam Mundy
• January 04, 2024 Escalation on the Israel-Lebanon Front
  By: Paul Salem, Randa Slim
• December 20, 2023 What is Iran's Next Move?
  By: Abdolrasool Divsallar, Alex Vatanka
• December 14, 2023 The Invasion of Southern Gaza
  By: Michael K. Nagata, Mick Mulroy
• December 13, 2023 Turkey at 100 | Reassessing Turkey's National Identity: A Century of Change
  By: Jenny White, Ali Yaycioglu, Kemal Kirisci, Mustafa Akyol, Gulseren Onanc, Can Candan, Michael Harris
• December 05, 2023 Turkey at 100
  By: Alistair Taylor, Gonul Tol
• December 05, 2023 Post-war challenges for Palestinian leadership
  By: Khaled Elgindy, Rula Jebreal, Rachel Dooley
• December 05, 2023 Themes of COP28
  By: Middle East Institute (MEI)
• November 29, 2023 The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea
  By: Shadi Hamid, Thomas Carothers
• November 29, 2023 Will the Israel-Hamas Truce Be Extended?
  By: Gerald Feierstein, Brian Katulis, Rachel Dooley
• November 21, 2023 The debate inside Israel
  By: Eran Etzion, Nimrod Goren
• November 15, 2023 Iran and the Israel-Hamas War
  By: Alistair Taylor, Alex Vatanka
• November 14, 2023 Assessing Israel's military strategy in Gaza
  By: Michael K. Nagata, Mick Mulroy, Rachel Dooley
• November 07, 2023 The Israel-Hamas war and the role of Qatar and Egypt
  By: Brian Katulis, Mirette F. Mabrouk, Rachel Dooley
• October 31, 2023 Israel-Hamas war and the risk of regional escalation
  By: Charles Lister, Firas Maksad
• October 25, 2023 The Israel-Hamas war and prospects for a ground invasion
  By: Joseph Votel, Bilal Y. Saab
• September 19, 2023 Climate Financing
  By: Mohammed Mahmoud
• September 08, 2023 Oman Library Book Talk Series | The One-State Reality with Michael Barnett and Shibley Telhami
  By: Michael Barnett, Shibley Telhami
• September 07, 2023 Prospects for Saudi Arabia-Israel Normalization
  By: Alistair Taylor, Martin Indyk, Sanam Vakil, Bilal Y. Saab
• August 28, 2023 Little Amal Walks Across America
  By: Kate Seelye, Vanessa Zuabi
• August 22, 2023 Ben Samuels | 'Taking the Edge Off the Middle East' Ep. 3
  By: Brian Katulis, Ben Samuels
• July 21, 2023 France’s Foreign Policy towards Lebanon and its Discontents
  By: Fadi Nicholas Nassar
• July 10, 2023 Perspectives from the Bonn Climate Change Conference Ahead of COP28
  By: Mohammed Mahmoud, Athraa Khamis, Neeshad Shafi
• July 05, 2023 Roundtable with Special Representative Dilawar Syed (U.S. Business in Iraq)
  By: Dilawar Syed, Randa Slim
• June 28, 2023 'Retraumatized': Assessing the Impact of the Earthquake on Northern Syria's Humanitarian Crisis
  By: Charles Lister, Dania Albaba, Nora Abdullah, Natasha Hall, Alex Mahoney
• June 21, 2023 Itamar Rabinovich on “Middle Eastern Maze”
  By: Itamar Rabinovich
• June 12, 2023 Richard A. Clarke | 'Taking the Edge Off the Middle East' Ep. 2
  By: Brian Katulis
• June 07, 2023 Art in Dialogue with Nature: An Exploration of Saudi Arabia’s New Valley of the Arts
  By: Iwona Blazwick, Manal Al Dowayan, Kate Seelye
• June 02, 2023 How Will Presidential Election Results Affect Turkey’s Regional Outlook?
  By: Middle East Institute (MEI)
• June 01, 2023 David Schenker | 'Taking the Edge Off the Middle East' Ep. 1
  By: Brian Katulis, David Schenker
• May 17, 2023 Ending the use of child soldiers
  By: Alistair Taylor, Mick Mulroy, Eric Oehlerich
• May 09, 2023 Turkey’s Critical Elections
  By: Alistair Taylor
• May 02, 2023 Tunisia's new state institutions, legitimacy, and the future of the political transition
  By: Kais Saied, Intissar Fakir
• April 25, 2023 What Does the US-China Tech Cold War Mean for the Middle East?
  By: Alistair Taylor, Mohammed Soliman
• April 24, 2023 Exploring the Middle East’s Climate Crisis through the Lens of Policy and Art
  By: Lama El Hatow, Mohammed Mahmoud, Maya El Khalil, Rhana Natour
• April 18, 2023 Earth Day: Environmental Opportunities and Challenges in the Middle East
  By: Mohammed Mahmoud
• April 11, 2023 On Food and Sustainability: A conversation with Moza Al Matrooshi and Christian Sleiman
  By: Lyne Sneige, Moza Al Matrooshi, Christian Sleiman
• March 30, 2023 Water Resource Challenges in MENA
  By: Mohammed Mahmoud
• March 27, 2023 2023 World Water Day: The Future of Water Security in the Middle East and North Africa
  By: Middle East Institute (MEI)
• March 10, 2023 Can the Lira be saved?
  By: Fadi Nicholas Nassar, Mike Azar
• February 28, 2023 The influence of Atmospheric Rivers in MENA
  By: Mohammed Mahmoud, Raha Hakimdavar
• February 24, 2023 Russia's Influence in MENA After a Year of War in Ukraine
  By: Matthew Czekaj, Iulia-sabina Joja, Alex Vatanka, Yörük Işık, Charles Lister, Roger Kangas
• February 13, 2023 Is There a Way Forward for Political Resolution in Yemen?
  By: Fatima Abo Alasrar, Ibrahim Jalal
• February 01, 2023 Justice, the Beirut Blast, and Lebanon's Continued Crisis
  By: Fadi Nicholas Nassar, Ronnie Chatah
• January 24, 2023 EU Energy Security & the Maghreb
  By: Intissar Fakir, Alberto Rizzi
• January 02, 2023 MENA Music and More!
  By: Danny Hajjar, Fadi Nicholas Nassar
• December 19, 2022 Iran’s Protests 3 Months On
  By: Alistair Taylor, Alex Vatanka
• November 07, 2022 COP 27: Ask the Experts with Mohammed Mahmoud
  By: Mohammed Mahmoud, Andrei Covatariu, Athraa Khamis, Malak Altaeb, Megan Ferrando, Orestes Morfin, Youssef Wehbe
• November 01, 2022 Russia’s War on Ukraine: Iran’s Growing Role and the Nuclear Threat
  By: Alistair Taylor, Philip Breedlove, Iulia-sabina Joja
• October 25, 2022 The Biden Administration’s National Security Strategy
  By: Alistair Taylor, Ross Harrison, Jerry Feierstein, Marwa Maziad
• October 11, 2022 Pakistan's Climate, Economic, and Political Crises
  By: Syed Mohammed Ali, Elizabeth Threlkeld, Arif Rafiq
• October 04, 2022 Contending with Reality in Palestine & Israel
  By: George Salem, Brian Katulis, Khaled Elgindy
• September 13, 2022 Yemen After Eight Years of Civil War
  By: Gerald Feierstein, Fatima Abo Alasrar, Ibrahim Jalal
• September 02, 2022 Algeria & France: Untangling Past and Present
  By: Intissar Fakir, Francis Gilles
• August 26, 2022 Israeli Raids on Palestinian Civil Society Organizations — The Costs of International Inaction
  By: Shawan Jabarin, Raed Jarrar, Lara Friedman, Khaled Quzmar, Zaha Hassan, Sahar Francis, Ubal al-Aboudi, Khaled Elgindy, Moayyad Bsharat, Tahreer Jaber
• August 25, 2022 Iraq's Deepening Political Crisis
  By: Farhad Alaaldin, Robert Ford
• August 12, 2022 MENA Photography: More than your eyes can see
  By: Lyne Sneige, Iman Ali, Samar Hazboun
• August 09, 2022 The US strike on al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri
  By: Alistair Taylor, Mick Mulroy, Javid Ahmad, Douglas London
• July 27, 2022 Biden's Trip to the Middle East
  By: Alistair Taylor, Paul Salem, Bilal Y. Saab , Mirette F. Mabrouk, Alex Vatanka
• July 19, 2022 Session IV: The Unsustainability of Camps and Prisons: How Things Need to Change
  By: Sahar Attrache, Fabrizio Carboni, Sonia Khush, Letta Tayler, Elizabeth Hagedorn
• July 07, 2022 Tunisia's Economy
  By: Intissar Fakir, Marwa Haddar, Fadil Aliriza
• June 30, 2022 Iraq's Political Shift
  By: Randa Slim, Farhad Alaadin, Marsin Alshamary
• June 22, 2022 Area Studies, the Cold War, and the History of the US Academic Library Collections
  By: Michael Albin, Ryan Zohair, Joan Weeks, William Kopycki
• June 21, 2022 MEI-NAPI Roundtable on the Environment in Tunisia: A Youth Perspective On Challenges & Opportunities
  By: Intissar Fakir, Fatine Ezbakhe, Marouen Taleb, Abir Ben Romdhane, Mohamed Walid Jomni
• June 10, 2022 Somalia (Horn of Africa, part 2 of 2)
  By: Guled Ahmed
• June 02, 2022 Expedition to Antarctica
  By: Mohammed Mahmoud, Athraa Khamis
• May 27, 2022 Ethiopia (Horn of Africa, part 1 of 2)
  By: Nathenael Gemechu, Michael Woldemariam, Guled Ahmed
• May 17, 2022 Pakistan's Political Crisis
  By: Marvin G. Weinbaum, Madiha Afzal, Syed Mohammed Ali
• May 05, 2022 Energy in the Eastern Mediterranean
  By: Karen E. Young, Emily Stromquist, Colby Connelly
• April 29, 2022 A Conversation with Dr. Haider al-Abadi
  By: Haider al-Abadi
• April 26, 2022 France's Presidential Election and Foreign Policy
  By: Intissar Fakir, Cinzia Bianco, Perla Srour-Gandon
• April 22, 2022 Youth Climate Activism in MENA
  By: Mohammed Mahmoud, Neeshad Shafi
• April 15, 2022 US-Gulf Relations at the Crossroads
  By: Gerald Feierstein, Bilal Y. Saab, Karen E. Young
• April 08, 2022 Israel & Palestine: Hot topics in Congress
  By: Alistair Taylor, Khaled Elgindy, Lara Friedman
• April 01, 2022 The Parallels of Ukraine and Syria
  By: Charles Lister, Iulia-sabina Joja
• March 25, 2022 In Conversation | Ambassador Khaled Alyemany and Ambassador Gerald Feierstein
  By: Khaled Alyemany, Gerald Feierstein
• March 18, 2022 The GERD and Cyber Diplomacy
  By: Mirette F. Mabrouk, Joey Shea, Eliza Campbell
• March 04, 2022 Lebanon in Crisis
  By: Randa Slim, Edward M. Gabriel
• February 25, 2022 Taliban rule of Afghanistan at six months
  By: Marvin G. Weinbaum, Sayed Madadi
• February 18, 2022 Between the Sky and the Earth: Contemporary Art from the UAE
  By: Afra Aldhaheri, Asma Belhamar
• February 11, 2022 Sustainable Financing in MENA
  By: Lama Kiyasseh, Lina Osman, Karen E. Young
• February 06, 2022 Expert Voices: Wayne Ackerman
  By: Wayne Ackerman
• February 03, 2022 ISIS in Syria and Iraq
  By: Charles Lister, Mick Mulroy
• February 01, 2022 Biden's First Year
  By: Brian Katulis, Randa Slim
• January 14, 2022 Israel's Digital Occupation
  By: Eliza Campbell, Emerson T. Brooking
• December 17, 2021 Year in review: The Middle East in 2021
  By: Paul Salem, Randa Slim, Bilal Y. Saab, Karen E. Young
• December 07, 2021 The UAE at 50
  By: Gerald Feierstein, Afshin Molavi, Courtney Freer
• December 03, 2021 America's Global Posturing Review
  By: Bilal Y. Saab
• November 30, 2021 Arabic Knowledge and Culture: A Conversation with the Hindawi Foundation
  By: Hindawi Foundation
• November 19, 2021 Takeaways from COP26
  By: Mohammed Mahmoud, Abbey Krulik
• November 11, 2021 The Legacy of the Iranian Hostage Crisis
  By: Alex Vatanka, Michael Metrinko
• May 10, 2021 The Palestinian Nakba: What Happened in 1948 and Why It Still Matters
  By: Rashida Tlaib, Rashid Khalidi, Umar Al-Ghubari, Mohammed El-Kurd, Lubnah Shomali
• April 29, 2021 100 Days In: Assessing New Pathways for the Biden Administration
  By: Joey Hood, Elise Labott
• April 26, 2021 Russian Aggression in the Black Sea: Regional and International Responses
  By: Gonul Tol, Philip Breedlove, Iulia Joja, Yoruk Isik, Mamuka Tsereteli
• April 22, 2021 Narrating Memories of the Homeland Paris Based Syrian Artists Reflect on the War
  By: Vanessa Badre, Lyne Sneige, Kate Seelye, Denis Quenelle, Nagham Hodaifa, Bady Dalloul
• April 22, 2021 Against All Odds: An Ambitious Climate Policy for Lebanon
  By: Silvia Crescimbeni, Abi-Nassif, Vahakn Kabakian, Jessica Obeid
• April 19, 2021 Raising the Alarm: Climate Activism in North Africa
  By: Moussa Sall, Intissar Fakir, Hajar Khamlichi, Thowaba Ben Slema, Houssem Hamdi
• March 29, 2021 A Strategic Proxy Threat: Iran’s Transnational Network
  By: Michael Knights, Hanin Ghaddar, Nadwa Al-Dawsari, Charles Lister
• March 25, 2021 Lebanon’s Financial Meltdown and the Prospects for Recovery
  By: Christophe Abi-Nassif, Haneen Sayed, Alain Bifani, Nasser Saidi
• March 23, 2021 An Uncertain Future: Prospects for ISIS Detainees in Syria and Iraq
  By: Charles Lister, Vera Mironova, Eric Oehlerich, Mick Mulroy, Sara Kayyali
• March 22, 2021 Ten Years After: Syrian Artists Reflect on the Anniversary of the Syrian Uprising
  By: Lyne Sneige, Lara Haddad, Maymanah Farhat, Kevork Mourad
• February 25, 2021 Countering Terrorism since 9/11: International Perspectives
  By: Edmund Fitton-Brown, Ken Dilanian, Nadwa Al-Dawsari, Jane Marriott, Aimen Dean
• February 23, 2021 Egypt, The US, And An Evolving Regional Landscape
  By: Motaz Zahran, Joey Hood, Paul Salem, Gerald Feierstein, Mirette F. Mabrouk
• February 11, 2021 Ten Years After the Arab Spring: Middle East Writers Reflect on the Arab Uprisings
  By: Jacki Lyden, Yasmine El Rashid, Kate Seelye
• February 06, 2021 Oil in the Age of Biden: U.S.-Middle East Energy Relationships Under a New Administration
  By: Ruba Husari, Samantha Gross, Gerald Feierstein, Jean-Francois Seznec
• December 22, 2020 Cyber War and Cyber Peace: Past and Future Cyber Clashes in the Middle East
  By: Selena Larson, James Shires, Thom Langford
• December 16, 2020 The Creeping Threat of Climate Change
  By: Mirette F. Mabrouk, Abla Abdel Latif, Sarah El-Battouty
• December 16, 2020 A Sea Change?: China’s Role in the Black Sea
  By: Ivan Safranchuk, Michal Meidan, Gonul Tol, Michael Gunter
• December 14, 2020 After Flood and Revolution: Sudanese Responses to a Lagging Transitional Government
  By: Isma'il Kushkush, Mohamed Solman, Jérôme Tubiana
• November 23, 2020 Unleashing a New Way of Warfare: How Turkey's Drones and Air Defence Systems Won the War for Tripoli
  By: Nilsu Gören, Wolfgang Pusztai, Jason Pack, Mohamed Htweish, Florence Gaub
• November 19, 2020 MEI Webinar Series Pt 2: The Future of Palestinian Politics under a Biden Administration
  By: Khaled Elgindy, Dana ElKurd, Yousef Munayyer, Mustafa Barghouti
• November 17, 2020 US and Iranian Strategies for a Biden Administration
  By: Alex Vatanka, Hannah Kaviani, Behnam Ben Talebiu, Jon B. Alterman
• November 17, 2020 MEI Webinar Series Pt 1: The Future of Palestinian Politics under a Biden Administration
  By: Khaled Elgindy, Sam Bahour, Tareq Baconi, Mustafa Barghouti, Noura Erakat
• October 27, 2020 Economic Development and Security: Three Seas Initiative in the Black Sea
  By: Iulia Joja, Ryan Olson, Mamuka Tsereteli, Ian Birzezinksi
• October 23, 2020 The Palestinians and U.S. Elections: What’s at Stake?
  By: Khaled Elgindy, Martin Indyk, Nour Odeh, Shibley Telhami
• October 21, 2020 Conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia: Scope and Implications
  By: Mamuka Tsereteli, Margarita Assenova, Alex Vatanka, Rauf Mammadov
• October 19, 2020 A Fragmented Society: The Internal Dynamics of Libya’s Conflict
  By: Thomas Volk, Jason Pack, Younes Abouyoub, Emadeddin Badi, Jonathan Winer, Amanda Kadlec, Gerald Feierstein, Mohamed Eljarh, Bouchra Rahmouni
• September 16, 2020 Is a Plan B Needed to Save Afghanistan?
  By: Marvin G. Weinbaum, Saad Mohseni, Anthony H. Cordesman, Muqaddesa Yourish, David Sedney, Ali Jalali
• September 10, 2020 The Future of Saudi Arabia and Its Crown Prince: A Book Talk with Ben Hubbard and Susanne Koelbl
  By: Susanne Koelbl, Deborah Amos, Ben Hubbard
• September 09, 2020 Arab Art in Focus: The Future of Cultural Festivals
  By: Huda Kanoo, Ernesto Ottone Ramirez, Raed Asfour, Eckhard Thiemann, Neda Ulaby
• September 09, 2020 State-of-Play for Middle East Cybersecurity Leaders
  By: Ron Peeters, Micah Loudermilk, Chris Kubecka, Maya Horowitz
• August 27, 2020 The Mental Health Costs of Displacement
  By: Amira Roess, Mia Atoui, Essam Daod, Mohammed Abo Hilal
• August 21, 2020 Protest Movements and Refugee Inclusion in Civil Society
  By: Joyce Karam, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Noof Assi
• August 06, 2020 After Qassem Soleimani: The Islamic Republic’s Strategy for the Arab World
  By: Tarek Osman, Ariane Tabatabai, Morad Vaisibiame, Alex Vatanka
• August 05, 2020 Jordan in 2020: Protests and Pandemic
  By: Laith Al Ajlouni, Sara Kayyali, Oraib Al Rantawi, Rana Husseini
• July 14, 2020 Status and Priorities for Lebanon’s Political Transition
  By: Darin LaHood, Paul Salem, Edward M. Gabriel, Jean AbiNader, Mona Yacoubian
• July 13, 2020 Voices from Turkish Politics: A Conversation with H.E. Ahmet Davutoğlu
  By: Gonul Tol, Ahmet Davutoğlu
• July 10, 2020 Searching for a Way Forward in Lebanon
  By: Paul Salem, Ishac Diwan, Fadlo Khuri, Maha Yahya
• July 06, 2020 Rethinking U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy
  By: Douglas London, Chris Costa, Charles Lister, Karen Greenberg
• June 25, 2020 Navigating Diplomacy: US Policy Options in Iran
  By: Douglas London, Scott Modell, Alex Vatanka, Mohsen Sazegara
• June 24, 2020 Protests and Solidarity Movements in the Middle East
  By: Zahra Hankir, Zahra Ali, Razan Ghazzawi, Lokman Slim, Ahmed Abu Artema
• June 20, 2020 Assessing the Implications of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act
  By: Rime Allaf, James Jeffrey, Lister, Qutaba Idlibi
• May 20, 2020 The Tumultuous Decade: Recapping a Decade of Polling in the Middle East
  By: Paul Salem, James Zogby, Nahida Nakad
• May 18, 2020 Migrant Workers in the Gulf: Unseen Struggles and Prospects for Reform
  By: Gerald Feierstein, Rima Sabban, Hiba Zayadin
• May 13, 2020 Human Rights in Times of Global Crises
  By: Ibrahim Al Assil, Nour El Achi, Mai El Sadany, Sana Mustafa
• May 07, 2020 Migration Trends in Eastern Europe during COVID-19
  By: Iulia Joja, Gonul Tol, Adam Eberhardt, Holger Fabian Sahl
• April 23, 2020 Economic shocks of COVID-19: What next for the Caspian Basin and South Caucasus?
  By: Suzanne Maloney, Alex Vatanka, Aleksi Aleksishvili, Rauf Mammadov
• April 22, 2020 LGBTQ+ Movements in the Middle East: Navigating Political Unrest and Global Pandemic
  By: Roula Seghaier, Amir Ashour, Antoun Issa, Rasha Younes
• April 17, 2020 Displacement During COVID-19: an Urgent Humanitarian Imperative
  By: Randa Sim, Zaher Sahloul, Kieren Barnes, Aya Majzoub
• April 16, 2020 On the Front Lines: How Public Health Systems are Confronting the Covid19 Crisis in the Middle East
  By: Ross Harrison, Amir Afkhami, Amira Roess, Omid Nikfarjam
• April 16, 2020 The Middle East in an Era of Great Power Competition
  By: Stephen Walt, Bilal Y. Saab , Barry R. Posen
• March 28, 2020 Iran, Russia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan: Prospects and Potential Trajectories
  By: Alex Vatanka, Amin Tarzi, Laila Bokhari, Madiha Afzai, Fatemeh Aman
• March 25, 2020 Current Dynamics and Emerging Threats in Yemen
  By: Abo Alasrar, Nadwa Al-Dawsari, Ibrahim Jalal, Gerald Feierstein
• March 04, 2020 Leveraging a Moment of Change: Pathways to a Sustainable U.S.-Pakistan Relationship
  By: Syed Mohammed Ali, Gerald Feierstein, Ali Jehangir Siddiqui, Marvin G. Weinbaum
• February 21, 2020 The Crisis in Syria’s Idlib
  By: Zaher Sahloul, Elizabeth Tsurkov, Charles Lister, Alexander Marquardt
• February 19, 2020 The State of Tunisia's Democratic Transition and the Power and Perils of Consensus Politics
  By: Daniel Brumberg, Sharan Grewal, Mohamed-Dhia Hammami, Sabina Henneberg, William Lawrence
• February 14, 2020 Understanding EU-MENA Relations: Current and Changing Dynamics
  By: Przemysław Osiewicz, Alex Vatanka, Suzanne Kianpour
• November 21, 2019 The Role of Women in Syria's Future
  By: Rafif Jouejati, Jomana Qaddour, Sarah Hunaidi, Charles Lister
• November 13, 2019 Are there pathways to de-escalation in the Middle East?
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• October 30, 2019 Israel's Tightening Control of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza
  By: Avner Gvaryahu, Daniel Seidemann, Celine Touboul, Bashar Azzeh
• October 21, 2019 U.S. Policy Priorities for Afghanistan: A Conversation with U.S. Representative Mike Waltz
  By: Michael Waltz, Marvin G. Weinbaum
• October 16, 2019 Refugees in Lebanon: Perspectives from on the Ground
  By: Dima Zayat, Serene Dardari, Mona Yacoubian
• October 04, 2019 Drivers of Violence in Israel-Palestine
  By: Nathan Stock, Khaled Elgindy, Muna Shikaki
• March 01, 2019 The Unsustainability of ISIS Detentions in Syria
  By: Elizabeth Dent
• October 29, 2018 The Tiger Forces: Pro-Assad fighters backed by Russia
  By: Gregory Waters
• October 24, 2018 The primacy of praxis: Clerical authority in the Syrian conflict
  By: Shiraz Maher
• October 15, 2018 The Fatemiyoun Division: Afghan fighters in the Syrian civil war
  By: Tobias Schneider
• October 04, 2018 Yemen's Path Forward
  By: Gerald Feierstein, Sama'a al-Hamdani, Timothy Lenderking, Bruce Abrams, Abdulrahman al-Eryani, Latifa Jamel
• September 01, 2018 Out of the desert: ISIS's strategy for a long war
  By: Hassan Hassan
• August 03, 2018 How Imran Khan Might Change Pakistan and its U.S. Relations
  By: Michael Kugelman, Arif Rafiq, Tamanna Salikuddin, Moeed Yusuf
• August 01, 2018 Iraq's Political Turmoil
  By: Middle East Institute
• July 25, 2018 Contemporary Jihadi Militancy in Yemen
  By: Elisabeth Kendall
• July 09, 2018 Lens on Palestine: Stitching Palestine discussion with Nusayba Hammad
  By: Nusayba Hammad
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• June 25, 2018 Lens on Palestine: Speed Sisters discussion with Rhana Natour
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• May 30, 2018 Terrorism and human rights: the perspective of international law
  By: David Stewart
• May 18, 2018 Resistance at 70: The Future of the Palestinian National Movement
  By: Tareq Baconi, Khaled Elgindy, Noura Erakat, Lara Friedman
• May 14, 2018 Beyond the proxy powder keg: The specter of war between Saudi Arabia and Iran
  By: Bilal Y. Saab
• February 06, 2018 The Rise of Violent Transnational Movements in the Middle East: Historical Context, Dynamic Drivers and Policy Takeaways
  By: Paul Salem
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  By: Nicholas Blanford
• November 07, 2017 Al-Qaeda versus ISIS: Competing Jihadist Brands in the Middle East
  By: Charles Lister
• October 23, 2017 Wartime Economies in the Middle East A Look into Libya, Syria and Iraq
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• October 17, 2017 Iraq’s Fifth Column: Iran’s Proxy Network
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• October 08, 2017 How Can the International Community Promote Libya's Stability and Security?
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• October 04, 2017 Libya’s Terrorism Challenge: Assessing the Salafi-Jihadi Threat
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• August 03, 2017 Gaza Approaching a Boiling Point?
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  By: Randa Slim, Philippe Lazzarini
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  By: Ross Harrison
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  By: Antoun Issa
• September 14, 2016 Natural Cooperation: Facing Water Challenges in the Middle East
  By: Aysegul Kibaroglu
• August 18, 2016 Military Cooperation in MENA: Uncertainty in the Face of Changing Threats
  By: Anthony H. Cordesman
• July 22, 2016 Toward Regional Cooperation: The Internal Security Dimension
  By: Querine Hanlon
• June 29, 2016 Economic Integration in the Middle East
  By: Shahrokh Fardoust
• June 07, 2016 Connecting Countries to Stabilize the Middle East
  By: Heidi Larbi
• May 03, 2016 Climate Challenges in the Middle East: Rethinking Environmental Cooperation
  By: Gerald Stang
• April 20, 2016 Intra-Regional Trade: Potential Catalyst for Growth in the Middle East
  By: Bernard Hoekman
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  By: Allen Keiswetter
• July 15, 2015 Arab Armed Forces: State Makers or State Breakers?
  By: Robert Springborg
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  By: Ross Harrison
• May 01, 2015 Iran’s Failed Foreign Policy: Dealing from a Position of Weakness
  By: Thomas Juneau
• May 20, 2014 Kuwait: At the Crossroads of Change or Political Stagnation
  By: Shafeeq Ghabra
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