North African states are turning long-standing diplomatic relationships into new opportunities for leverage, using migration ...

For years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader and ultimate powerbroker, has been insisting to his people that ...

On August 28, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany triggered the “snapback” process under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal — also known as the JCPOA — giving Tehran 30 days to negotiate a pathway that ...

The reverberations of Israel’s strike on the Hamas negotiating team in Doha yesterday are still rippling across the globe and ...

Over the summer, five Western allies announced their readiness to recognize a Palestinian state during this year’s annual ...

Join MEI for a discussion of Iranian politics and foreign policy at this crucial moment in its foreign policy. Both of our panelists will discuss their new books on contemporary Iran and how they ...

The Middle East Institute (MEI) is proud to announce the appointment of Ambassador (ret.) Yael Lempert as its new Vice President for Outreach, effective September 2, 2025.

The global response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has focused new attention on friction between the United States and its traditional partners in the Gulf and reinforced skepticism regarding the ...

The United States is trapped in a reactive Middle East policy approach of its own making one year into a regional war that continues to expand. This strategic drift in US policy is a direct result of ...

There is a new and little noticed geostrategic alliance on the rise. India, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have had surface-level, transactional relations for a long time. However, last ...

This paper is part of the series Turkish Views: Crisis and Opportunities for Turkey in 2023. All of the papers will be available on the series landing page as they are released throughout the month of ...

Immediately following the outbreak of COVID-19, cyber attacks swept across the Middle East, leaving public and private entities highly vulnerable and transforming the pandemic into both a physical and ...