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 ...

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 ...

Join us for the closing celebration of MEI's Arab Pop Art exhibition, featuring a live performance by Syrian-American rapper, spoken word poet, and storyteller Omar Offendum. Join us for the closing ...

Dr. Bassant Hassib is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the University of London Programmes (LSE) at the European Universities in Egypt (EUE), a Visiting Fellow at the University of South ...

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 ...

Michael Ratney is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of Minister-Counselor. He joined the service in 1990. Prior to his appointment as Ambassador, he served as the Acting ...

Ali Afshari is an Iranian political analyst and pro-democracy activist. He is a former student leader and member of the Central Committee of the Office for Consolidation of Unity, which was the main ...

The following article is based on research conducted under the State Department’s Title VIII Fellowship, for the Black Sea Program at MEI. During summer 2024, the author traveled three times to ...

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 ...

As the U.S. administration considers whether to remove Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, understanding its nature, development, and ideology is essential to ...

“The world is not just Europe and America,” Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson declared on April 10, 2023, implicitly echoing the views championed for years by the senior leadership of the Islamic ...

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 ...