Syria has received some of its best economic news since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime at the end of 2024: the United States has begun the process of removing the country from its list of state ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Wafa Ben Hassine is the MENA Policy Counsel for Access Now, an organization defending and extending the digital ...

On June 14, 2026, the United States and Iran agreed on terms to end the war that started on February 28, 2026, and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. MEI experts react to the deal and what it means for 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 ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Martine van Bijlert has spent ten of the last 20 years living, working, and researching in Afghanistan and its ...

The last few weeks in Iran have retaught us lessons we already knew — lessons written in blood, courage, denial, and cruelty. We were reminded that the clerical regime’s ineptitude in governing is ...

Anwar Alam is a Senior Fellow with Policy Perspectives Foundation, New Delhi. Earlier, he served as full Professor in the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Economics and Administrative ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Dr. Eleanor Abdella Doumato writes on Islamic education, gender, and the Gulf region. Her most recent book is ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Amr Salah is an Adjunct Faculty and Ph.D. Candidate at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at ...

Did the presence of American military bases in the Gulf monarchies draw those states into the American-Israeli war against Iran, a war they had no say in initiating and no voice in prosecuting? That ...

Morocco’s phosphorus fertilizer industry, with its massive production capacity and international reach, has transformed the kingdom into a gatekeeper of global food supply chains. Morocco’s centrality ...

For more than a decade, the conflict in Syria appeared too intense, too complex, and too intertwined in geopolitics to be resolved, with the international community choosing to prioritize managing and ...