Please join the Middle East Institute (MEI) for a webinar exploring Israeli views of the war in the Middle East. Two-and-a-half weeks after the United States and Israel launched a military campaign ...

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 ...

A great prize lies unclaimed by the United States and its allies: Lebanon. Ever since Hizballah’s deadly attack against the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, which killed 241 American service ...

Iran is transforming its Axis of Resistance into a decentralized, Yemen-centered network that leverages the Houthis to threaten both the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb, extending Tehran’s ...

When Iran struck two Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates and damaged a third in Bahrain in early March, Washington quickly deemed the Gulf’s artificial intelligence ...

Alex Vatanka on the War With Iran and the Trump Administration Nuclear Deal with Saudi Arabia Alex Vatanka on the War With Iran and the Trump Administration Nuclear Deal with Saudi Arabia Alex Vatanka ...

This report outlines an actionable US roadmap to win in Lebanon, comprising eight chapters of specific policy interventions across the security, economic, and political dimensions needed to secure a ...

In November 2025, the United States sought and obtained approval for a United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR 2803) endorsing the formation of a Board of Peace (BoP) and International ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Mark Tessler is Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.

The artificial intelligence (AI) era demands a fundamental rethinking of strategic infrastructure and international partnerships. Just as oil shaped the geopolitical landscape of the 20th century, ...

Dr. N. Janardhan is a political analyst based in the United Arab Emirates since 2000 and author of Boom amid Gloom: Spirit of Possibility in the 21st Century Gulf (Ithaca, 2011). As Honorary Fellow at ...

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 ...