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People who fled fighting in South Sudan are seen walking at sunset on arrival at Bidi Bidi refugees resettlement camp near the border with South Sudan, in Yumbe district, northern Uganda December 7, 2016. REUTERS/James Akena - RC1930B69240

Sudan & South Sudan

The old guard are killing the world’s youngest country

Zach Vertin

Friday, June 14, 2019

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) greets his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia April 8, 2019. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC1FB743D560

Turkey

Turkey and Russia are bitter frenemies

Galip Dalay

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

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Up Front

GCC News Roundup: Qatar opens new metro line, Houthi drones strike Saudi oil facility (May 1-31)

Monday, June 3, 2019

Iran

Swamped in a triple crisis

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Monday, June 3, 2019

Experts

Noha Aboueldahab

Fellow - Foreign Policy, Brookings Doha Center

@NohaAboueldahab

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

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (C) walks alongside Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (R) and other unidentified officials during the opening ceremony of the new Turkish embassy in Abdiazizi district of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, June 3, 2016. REUTERS/Feisal Omar - S1AETHUSPPAA

Turkey

Turkey and the new scramble for Africa: Ottoman designs or unfounded fears?

Zach Vertin

Sunday, May 19, 2019

Libya

Analysis: Peace and justice in Libya’s transition

Noha Aboueldahab

May 6, 2019

Yemen

Reclaiming Yemen: The role of the Yemeni professional diaspora

Noha Aboueldahab

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

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Blog Posts

Sudanese protesters attend a demonstration in front of the defense ministry compound in Khartoum, Sudan, May 2, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1842B87200

Order from Chaos

Sudan’s protesters can help alleviate Yemen’s tragedy

Noha Aboueldahab

Friday, May 31, 2019

A Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) fighter rides in a military vehicle at the Iraqi-Syrian border near al-Qaim, Iraq, November 26, 2018. Picture taken November 26, 2018. REUTERS/Alaa al-Marjani - RC13847779F0

Order from Chaos

How US-Iran tensions could disrupt Iraq’s fragile peace

Ranj Alaaldin

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz meets with Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and Iraqi ministers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia April 17, 2019. Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC1A0CFF1D20

Up Front

GCC News Roundup: Saudi’s King Salman visits Bahrain, Qatar hosts Taliban and US peace talks (April 1-30)

Thursday, May 2, 2019

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Op-Eds

Gulf States

What Brookings experts are saying about the two-year anniversary of the Gulf crisis

Omar H. Rahman, Noha Aboueldahab, Zach Vertin, Ali Fathollah-Nejad, Nader Kabbani, Ranj Alaaldin, Galip Dalay, Adel Abdel Ghafar, and Yasmina Abouzzohour

Monday, June 3, 2019

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

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Events

2019

Jun

Past Event

Arab Spring 2.0? The shifting sands threatening MENA politics

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM AST

The role of revolutionary art in political expression and peace building

9:15 PM - Monday May 27, 2019 12:30 AM AST

An End to the “Endless War?” Prospects for Stability and Reconciliation in Afghanistan

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM AST

Doha, Qatar

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