Alex Vatanka is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute. He specializes in Middle Eastern regional security affairs with a particular focus on Iran. He was formerly a Senior Analyst at Jane’s ...

What’s More Than ‘Maximum’? Trump Faces Limits on Iran Sanctions. What’s More Than ‘Maximum’? Trump Faces Limits on Iran Sanctions. Alan Eyre is a Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow at the Middle East ...

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 ...

James P. Farwell is an expert in information warfare, influence operations, and cyber policy and strategy, with a geo-topical expertise in the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan. He has advised ...

Ebrahim Raisi, the eighth president of Iran, has taken over at a time when the Islamic Republic is facing a series of major potential crises. Over the next several decades, these crises could have ...

For the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, groundwater is a hidden but significant problem, as many countries extract more than is being recharged 1 and most lack solid legal frameworks and ...

Fiona Dajani Brummer serves as the Communications Coordinator at MEI, where she supports the organization’s outreach strategy. She produces podcasts, creates original content for social media ...

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 ...

On May 1, the United Arab Emirates ended almost 60 years as a core member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and a decade as a key player in the broader OPEC+ grouping, ...

During the waning days of the Trump administration, 22 Republican Representatives, led by Doug Lamborn of Colorado, sent a letter to the president urging him to erase Palestine refugees and their ...

Since 1967, West Bank settlements have been a contested feature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The term refers to Israeli residential communities established in the territory on the west bank of ...

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 ...