In November 2025, the United States sought and obtained approval for a United Nations Security Council Resolution ( UNSCR 2803) endorsing the formation of a Board of Peace (BoP) and International ...

The first year of Trump 2.0’s foreign policy and his approach to the Middle East offer some important insights about how America is recasting its relationship with this region of the world. Ten key ...

The decision by Washington and Tehran to shift their long-anticipated meeting, set for February 6, from Istanbul to Muscat is ...

This approval reflects the central role that Saudi Arabia and the UAE now play as trusted hubs for large-scale compute ...

For much of the past several years, normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel seemed almost inevitable — the logical next ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s identity, leadership dynamics, and regional posture have all shaped its response to the recent ...

The clerical dictatorship has an expiration date, which is now near. One way to think of an accelerated timetable is to ask ...

The Eastern Mediterranean holds major strategic potential in the energy security sphere, with massive hydrocarbon fields ...

Trump’s battle with Iran also falls into this category. Whether there will be an all-out war, a tactical decapitation strike, ...

Please join us on Friday, February 13th from 5:00-7:00pm for the public opening of the MEI Art Gallery’s latest exhibition, Beyond the Weave: Contemporary Dialogues with AlSadu, ...

The Middle East Journal is an indispensable resource for research and analysis, examining emerging trends and persistent challenges in a complex regional environment. First printed in 1947, MEJ is the ...

Hadani Ditmars is the author of Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: A Woman’s Journey Through Iraq, a past editor at New Internationalist, and has been reporting from the Middle East on culture, society and ...