All eyes this week are on Alaska, where US President Donald Trump will hold a pivotal meeting with Russian President Vladimir ...

Iran war, a quieter but significant battle played out in cyberspace, highlighting how Tehran has refined its use of digital ...

As the Trump administration pushes to expand the Abraham Accords in the Middle East and into the Caucasus and Central Asia, ...

The Middle East Institute (MEI) is deeply saddened by the passing of William H. Webster, a distinguished former member of our ...

President Masoud Pezeshkian’s first year in office has been defined by Iran’s familiar political structural constraints, ...

As the Western Sahara conflict reaches its fifth decade, the territorial dispute remains unresolved and largely unknown. MEI's Intissar Fakir unpacks the Western Sahara's complex history and the rival ...

I’m standing on a plateau of history. I’m taking a glimpse at what the future holds for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in terms of challenges and opportunities in the next half-century.

MEI’s Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy Brian Katulis sits down with a cast of friends, colleagues, and fellow MENA policy professionals for casual conversations on the most important happenings in ...

President Joe Biden’s commitment to “stepping up” diplomacy to end the war in Yemen generated hope among peace practitioners and policy shapers. In February, the president appointed Tim Lenderking, a ...

After 11 years of war in Syria, the COVID-19 pandemic, and an economic crisis, education for Syrian children and youth has been severely disrupted, leaving more than 2.4 million out of school. Around ...

Temporary marriages and sex tourism in Iran Sex tourism and sex trafficking in Iran are increasing. One contributing cause is the practice of sigheh. Sigheh (also known by its Arabic name “nikah ...

The challenge of developing export strategies for the offshore natural gas resources concentrated in the Eastern Mediterranean predates the Russo-Ukrainian war. Yet over the course of 2022, Europe’s ...