In a repeat of his 2017 visit to Saudi Arabia, President Donald Trump is once again headed to the Middle East for the first official foreign trip of his second term. The decision to travel to Saudi ...

The Middle East Institute (MEI) is pleased to announce that Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen has joined MEI as a Senior Fellow.

Assoc. Prof. Murat Somer and Prof. Dr. Kemal Kirişci discussed a recent AKP initiative known as the Kurdish Opening which aims to solve the Kurdish issue in Turkey. These two scholars provided an ...

Sharaa, the president of Syria, and Mazloum Abdi, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces, signed a historic ...

President Donald J. Trump’s trip to the Middle East on May 13-16 comes on the heels of more than three months of whirlwind ...

As the EU prepares for its annual review of sanctions imposed on Syria, it faces a moment of reckoning — an opportunity to ...

In this wide-ranging conversation, Ambassador James Jeffrey joins host Brian Katulis to unpack the Trump administration’s early moves in its second term and what they signal for US foreign policy in ...

The Middle East Institute (MEI) is proud to announce the establishment of two new expert cohorts: the Distinguished Military ...