A very different Middle East will greet President-elect Trump this month compared to the region he experienced during his first term. However, there are opportunities to advance American interests for ...

Harry Halem is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Senior Fellow at Yorktown Institute, and a Senior Fellow in Defense at the ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has moved quickly to take over the instruments of governance in Damascus — a process divorced from and in many ways in contradiction to the power transition discussions ...

Note: This essay was originally published in 2011. In 1946, inspired by his experiences in the region prior to World War II, George Camp Keiser established a center for the study of the Middle East.

The Lebanon Program Advisory Council provides guidance on matters related to the program's strategy, potential areas of focus, and overall direction. Council members bring a wealth of experience in ...

Established in 2009, MEI’s Turkish Studies program seeks to highlight and analyze political, economic, and social developments in Turkey through scholarly research and public events. It organizes an ...

Within the next 25 years, the Middle East and North Africa will be a global leader in renewable energy production and a hub for international renewable energy supply chains. Morocco, the United Arab ...

Available in print and electronically, and with a foreword by top national security and cyber expert Richard A. Clarke, this is the first anthology of its kind to specifically detail cyber warfare in ...

Dr. Karen E. Young is a political economist focusing on the Gulf, the broader MENA region and the intersection of energy, finance and security. She is a Senior Research Scholar at the Columbia ...

Home page for all research guides published by the Oman Library at the Middle East Institute. Welcome to the home page for all resource guides published by the Oman Library at MEI! Many of the ...

On US Iran policy, there’s little coherence between means and ends The difficulty in assessing the efficacy of the Trump administration’s policy of “maximum pressure” against Iran lies in the seeming ...

In most capitals across the Middle East, the news of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fall sparked immense anxiety. Ankara is not one of them. Rather than worrying about Syria’s prospects after more ...