Lieutenant General (Ret) Sean MacFarland concluded nearly 37 years as a U.S. Army officer in 2018. For the next four years he was Vice President of Weapons Programs at General Atomics Electromagnetic ...

In an essay published in Egyptian newspapers immediately before his arrival, Xi described China and Egypt as two great civilizations and called on them to “take pride in who we are” while becoming an ...

Over the past several weeks, the Houthis have seized the port city of Mokha, Yemen’s western coastline, and several islands in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and they are now massing around Marib and Taiz ...

Hassan Soliman, The Musicians (c.1960-80) Courtesy of the Private Collection of Laila Hassan Soliman. El Marsam: Modern and Contemporary Art from Egypt explores the origins and evolution of the ...

Nadwa Al-Dawsari is a researcher and conflict analyst with over 20 years of experience in Yemen and the region. Her research focuses on the conflict in Yemen and its interaction with regional dynamics ...

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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 ...

Nick Grinstead has been researching the dynamics in regime-held Syria for several years now, first as a researcher for the Clingendael Institute in The Hague, where he provided research and policy ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Andrew Wilder has spent more than 20 years working in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is currently a Research ...

After 10 months of US-mediated talks failed to achieve an integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) into Syria’s transitional state, hostilities erupted in early January — first in Kurdish ...