Naser al-Tamimi is a UK-based Middle East analyst and the author of the book, China-Saudi Arabia Relations, 1990-2012: Marriage of Convenience or Strategic Alliance ...

Amaney A. Jamal is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University and director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice. Jamal also directs the Workshop on Arab ...

Farideh Farhi is an Independent Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her publications include States and Urban-Based Revolutions in Iran and ...

COL Sean Morrow is the Director of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. His career in the United States Army has spanned multiple leadership roles in operations, to include the 2003 Invasion ...

Dr. Asfandyar Mir is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. His research focuses on international security issues, U.S. counterterrorism ...

The Middle East Institute is proud to host author and Brookings senior fellow Ken Pollack for a discussion of his book, Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy (Simon & Schuster, 2013). In ...

Amer Bisat, PhD, is the Global Head of Emerging Markets at BlackRock and a member of the firm’s Global Fixed Income Executive Committee. In this capacity, he leads a team managing approximately $40 ...

Robin Wright is a senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace. She is a contributing writer for The New Yorker and a former diplomatic correspondent for The Washington ...

As environmental challenges become a priority for countries across the Middle East and the Mediterranean, this creates new opportunities for regional environmental cooperation, including between ...

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 ...

The potential exploitation of generative AI by terrorists and violent extremists has attracted warnings that the technology may be used to groom or radicalize young people, help identify vulnerable ...

Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine renewed international experts’ focus on Moscow’s earlier military intervention in Syria, launched in 2015, which often became framed as a “testing ground” ...