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Last week, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei effectively greenlit mass killings to save his regime. His message was blunt: ...

Iran is at a critical juncture. The clerical establishment is confronting the most sustained and deadly unrest it has faced ...

Founded in 1946, the Middle East Institute (MEI) is the leading Washington, DC-based institution focused solely on the Middle East, delivering non-partisan insights, analysis, and recommendations to ...

Noureddine Krichene is an economist at the International Monetary Fund.

Ronald Bruce St John served on the Atlantic Council Working Group on Libya and the International Advisory Board of The Journal of Libyan Studies. He is the author of five books on Libya, including ...

As the rivalry between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi sharpens in Yemen and beyond, Turkey has begun edging closer to Saudi Arabia. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has openly acknowledged Saudi concerns, ...

Dr. Dania Thafer is the Executive Director of Gulf International Forum. Her area of expertise is on US-Gulf relations, security and the political economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states.

A decade on from the Arab Spring, 9 experts from across MEI offer their thoughts on what has and hasn’t changed — and what it all means for the future of the region.

Luigi Toninelli is a Junior Research Fellow at the ISPI Middle East and North Africa Centre. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation from the University of Milan and a Master ...

Ronald W. Zweig, Taub Professor of Israel Studies, New York University.

Naser Alsayed is a doctoral researcher at SOAS University of London, specializing in natural resource governance, environmental policy, and climate change across the Gulf and Global South. He is a ...