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 ...

Farideh Farhi is an Independent Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her publications include States and Urban-Based Revolutions in Iran and ...

Dr. Asfandyar Mir is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. His research focuses on international security issues, U.S. counterterrorism ...

Amaney A. Jamal is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University and director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice. Jamal also directs the Workshop on Arab ...

COL Sean Morrow is the Director of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. His career in the United States Army has spanned multiple leadership roles in operations, to include the 2003 Invasion ...

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 ...

of research and publication are Syria and the Levant, and Oman and the Arabian Peninsula.

Daniel Sobelman is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s International Relations Department and a former Arab affairs correspondent for the Israeli ...

Maheen Safian is the Senior Events Coordinator at the Middle East Institute. She aids in the coordination and execution of all MEI programming and events alongside the Senior Director of ...

Robin Wright is a senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace. She is a contributing writer for The New Yorker and a former diplomatic correspondent for The Washington ...

Eryn Gold is a Research Assistant with the Middle East Institute’s Policy Center. Before joining MEI, she interned as a threat intelligence analyst with Hozint – Horizon Intelligence, where she ...

Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza has caused massive destruction in both human and material terms. In less than six months, close to 35,000 people have been killed, including more than 14,500 children, ...