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American army vehicles drive north of Manbij city, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria March 9, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said - RC1D16A42820

Op-Ed

A welcome delay: The U.S. withdrawal from Syria

Ranj Alaaldin

Friday, March 8, 2019

A demonstrator carries a sign as teachers and students take part in a protest demanding immediate political change in Algiers, Algeria March 13, 2019. The sign reads: "The law should be like death, which spares no one". REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - RC1D6736BA50

Op-Ed

Lessons for Algeria from the 2011 Egyptian uprising

Adel Abdel Ghafar and Anna L. Jacobs

Thursday, March 14, 2019

An aerial view of part of the Red Sea coast, with hotels and resorts in Sharm el-Sheikh, is seen through the window of an airplane, Egypt, December 7, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - GF10000257526

Order from Chaos

Red Sea blueprints

Zach Vertin

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Iraqi soldiers stand guard near an election poster featuring pictures of Shi'ite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani (L), and slain clerics Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim (C) and Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr in the holy city of Najaf December 6, 2005. Iraqis will go to the polls December 15 to elect their first full, four-year parliament since the fall of Saddam Hussein. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish - RP2DSFIILWAB

Order from Chaos

Iraq’s failed uprising after the 1979 Iranian revolution

Ranj Alaaldin

Monday, March 11, 2019

Experts

Noha Aboueldahab

Visiting Fellow - Brookings Doha Center

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Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Visiting Fellow - Brookings Doha Center

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Tarik M. Yousef

Director - Brookings Doha Center

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Brookings Doha Center

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Research

Palestinian men make leather products for sale in a factory in the West Bank town of Dura, south of Hebron July 2, 2017. Picture taken July 2, 2017. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma -

Report

Youth employment in the Middle East and North Africa: Revisiting and reframing the challenge

Nader Kabbani

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Younes Fekraoui, 26, who is an unemployed graduate, holds his degree certificates at a street at the impoverished Zhor neighborhood of Kasserine, where young people have been demonstrating for jobs since last week, January 28, 2016. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - GF10000288051

Report

Regional development in Tunisia: The consequences of multiple marginalization

Larbi Sadiki

Monday, January 14, 2019

A member of the Iraqi security forces stands guard as Ameen Mukdad, a violinist from Mosul who lived under ISIS's rule for two and a half years where they destroyed his musical instruments, performs at Nabi Yunus shrine in eastern Mosul, Iraq, April 19, 2017. REUTERS/ Muhammad Hamed - RC167F7F0AE0

Report

Sectarianism, governance, and Iraq’s future

Ranj Alaaldin

Monday, November 26, 2018

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Blog Posts

Jailed Bahraini footballer Hakeem Al Araibi leaves Thailand's Criminal Court, in Bangkok, Thailand February 4, 2019. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

Up Front

GCC News Roundup: Qatar wins Asian Cup, Bahraini footballer released in Thailand (February 1-28)

Monday, March 4, 2019

Morocco's Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri (R) and his Saudi counterpart Prince Saud al-Faisal sign an agreement during the 11th Moroccan-Saudi joint Commission in Rabat February 10, 2011. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz is alive and in "excellent shape," the Saudi foreign minister said on Thursday after Rumors about the king's health triggered a spike in the price of oil. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal (MOROCCO - Tags: POLITICS ROYALS) - GM1E72B057701

Order from Chaos

Morocco-Saudi relations: Trouble amongst royals?

Adel Abdel Ghafar and Anna L. Jacobs

Friday, March 1, 2019

Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun (C), an 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family, accompanied by Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland (R) and Saba Abbas, general counsellor of COSTI refugee service agency, arrives at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Ontario, Canada January 12, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio - RC1A167A5FB0

Up Front

GCC News Roundup: Qatar increases investment in the U.S., Saudi Arabia faces backlash (January 1-31)

Monday, February 4, 2019

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Op-Eds

U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attend the start of the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium July 11, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Op-Ed

Turkish-U.S. strategic decoupling through the prism of Syria

Galip Dalay and E. Fuat Keyman

Thursday, February 21, 2019

An Iranian flag flutters in front of the United Nations headquarters in Vienna June 17, 2014. Six world powers and Iran began their fifth round of nuclear negotiations on Tuesday in hopes of salvaging prospects for a deal over Tehran's disputed atomic activity by a July deadline. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader (AUSTRIA - Tags: POLITICS ENERGY)

Op-Ed

The Iran question, again

Galip Dalay

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Syrian army soldiers walk past rubble along a street in al-Hajar al-Aswad, Syria May 21, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki - RC144C7CB400

Op-Ed

Europe must develop a Middle East policy independent of the US

Galip Dalay

Monday, January 21, 2019

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Events

2019

Mar

Past Event

Lessons from the 2019 Asian Cup: Sports, Globalization, and Politics in the Arab World

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM AST

Why think tanks matter: The importance of evidence-based policymaking in the Arab world

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM AST

Political Islam in the Gulf States

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM AST

Doha, Qatar

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