The Middle East Institute was pleased to host a fireside chat with H.E. Haneen Sayed, Minister of Social Affairs of the Republic of Lebanon, moderated by MEI Senior Fellow, Dr. Fadi Nicholas Nassar.

Former diplomat says US-Iran deal will not lead to a new Middle East Former diplomat says US-Iran deal will not lead to a new Middle East Alan Eyre is a Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow at the Middle ...

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, ...

There is a new and little noticed geostrategic alliance on the rise. India, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have had surface-level, transactional relations for a long time. However, last ...

The Middle East and North Africa are well known for their severe water scarcity. The region’s lack of water resources is the result of many factors, including the harsh climate, intense heat, high ...

Six months into his second term, President Donald Trump remains in search of a major, concrete foreign policy win. Trump 2.0’s foreign policy is still struggling to produce a major positive outcome ...

The final days of 2025 marked a turning point in the Middle East, as competition between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Yemen spilled out into the open. Tensions between the two ...

This article is the second in an ongoing series exploring the question of succession in the Islamic Republic and the eventual move to a post-Khamenei era. Among analysts of Iranian affairs, there is ...

After 11 years of war in Syria, the COVID-19 pandemic, and an economic crisis, education for Syrian children and youth has been severely disrupted, leaving more than 2.4 million out of school. Failure ...

On March 10, 2025, Ahmed al-Sharaa, the president of Syria, and Mazloum Abdi, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), signed a historic agreement, ending a long-running divide ...

Introduction: How did we get here? Over the course of 2020 and 2021, groundbreaking investigations revealed in stark detail Israeli authorities’ intensifying use of surveillance and predictive ...

Drawing on ideas and styles passed from vibrant Middle East trading cities into the West, the architectural heritage of Europe — and America — owes an important debt to the Arab and Islamic world, as ...