Iran’s sustained investment, combined with repeated US underestimation, allowed the Houthis to develop advanced drones and missiles and disrupt Red Sea shipping. Military strikes alone cannot ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Jean is an economist who is currently teaching at Sciences Po, Paris. He is a former visiting researcher at the ...

For decades, the romanticized myth of Lebanese laissez-faire has masked the stark reality of a state-managed oligopolistic economy. The current Lebanese regime does not govern; it operates as a Player ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Mohammed Baharoon is the Director General of the Dubai Public Policy Research Center (b’huth), established in ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Dr. James M. Dorsey is an award-winning journalist and scholar, an Honorary Fellow at the National University ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Moe Thuzar is an ISEAS Fellow & Lead Researcher (socio-cultural), at the ASEAN Studies Centre, ISEAS-Yusof ...

A decade has passed since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan landed in Mogadishu at the height of one of Somalia’s worst famines, announcing grandiose projects like the launch of Turkish Airlines ...

After 40 years, Syria once again has dual military rule, where the president and his brother are the highest authorities. In the early 1980s, Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of Hafez al-Assad, was the ...

This report assesses the future sustainability of agriculture across North Africa using a multidimensional approach that considers the dynamics of water, climate, land, and economics. To enable this ...

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 ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Dr. Ibrahim Saif served as Jordan’s minister of energy & mineral resources from March 2015 to June 2017. He ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Moha Ennaji, co-founder and President of the International Institute for Languages and Cultures, Fez, is one of ...