Ali AlYousefi, Forest of Shapes, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Artwork created during the SADI 2022 Residency. Sadu, a traditional weaving practice shaped by nomadic desert life and the ingenuity of ...

Wars don’t just end. They get interpreted, reinterpreted, and turned into strategic doctrine. That is what happened after the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, a conflict that saw the United States back ...

A Year After Toppling Assad, Syria’s Sharaa is Winning Over the White House A Year After Toppling Assad, Syria’s Sharaa is Winning Over the White House ...

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 ...

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 individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Dr. Robyn Torok is a highly experienced researcher, obtaining her first PhD in education investigating how ...

Once NATO's most reluctant member, Turkey hosts this week's summit in Ankara as wars in Ukraine and Iran — and Erdoğan's ties to President Trump — make it one of the alliance's most indispensable.

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 ...

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 ...

On the eve of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack, Israel’s situation in the Red Sea basin was seemingly more secure than at any period in its modern history. For the first time, Israel had ...

Dr. B. Rajesh Kumar is Associate Professor at the Institute of Management Technology FZ-LLC in Dubai, UAE. He earned a PhD in Management from the Indian Institute of Technology , IIT Kharagpur. He has ...

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 ...