The Middle East Institute is pleased to invite you to a fireside chat with H.E. Haneen Sayed, Minister of Social Affairs of ...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has mostly been viewed through the lens of global oil and gas supply disruptions, but the ...

A conversation about the upcoming Israeli elections: how they’re likely to unfold and what the potential outcomes mean for Israel’s domestic tensions, foreign policy, and the war that began on October ...

Jonathan “Jonny” Gannon retired during the summer of 2025 as a senior executive at CIA. Originally an operative, he has over 26 years of experience navigating national security challenges and building ...

Since 1967, Israeli settlements in the West Bank have been a contested feature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The ultimate disposition of the settlements and ongoing activity related to their ...

The ongoing Iran war has exposed the vulnerability of United States military installations and key infrastructure in the Middle East to the full array of Iranian threats, including asymmetric tactics.

Brian Katulis is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, specializing in US foreign policy and national security. He hosts the MEI podcast series Taking the Edge Off the Middle East and authors ...

Founded in 1946, the Middle East Institute (MEI) is the leading Washington, DC-based institution focused solely on the Middle East, delivering non-partisan insights, analysis, and recommendations to ...

Alan Eyre is a Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow at the Middle East Institute and the founder and president of EyreAnalytics LLC. He retired from the US Foreign Service in September 2023 after a 40-year ...

Join MEI’s Arts and Culture Center for an evening of comedy, storytelling, and community, presented in partnership with Rola Z. LIVE at MEI: Voices from the Arab Diaspora brings together uplifting ...

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 ...

Six months into his second term, President Donald Trump remains in search of a major, concrete foreign policy win. Trump 2.0’s foreign policy is still struggling to produce a major positive outcome ...