Governor David Beasley, former executive director of the World Food Programme and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, opened the conference with a call for urgency and strategic clarity. He described the ...

Jason H. Campbell is senior fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI), where he focuses on international security, geopolitics, and foreign policy. Prior to joining MEI, he was a senior policy ...

Defense and Security, US Policy in the Middle East, Iran Apply targeted sanctions to cut off Russian military assistance to Iran. Congress should direct the administration to designate Russian ...

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 ...

It has been 30 years since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasir Arafat, flanked by a beaming President Bill Clinton, signed the historic Oslo ...

In the pursuit of its national interests, Omani foreign policy is largely based on long-standing principles of good neighborly relations, mutual respect, tolerance, non-interference and ...

This collection of short essays written by the Fellows of the Middle East Institute explores various aspects of the war with Iran. The intent is to help readers see new and unexpected elements of 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Defense and Security, US Policy in the Middle East, Iran Initial strikes by the United States and Israel have degraded senior leadership and elements of Iran’s command structure. The central question ...