Brookings Doha Center

Workers walk towards the construction site of the Lusail stadium which will be build for the upcoming 2022 Fifa soccer World Cup during a stadium tour in Doha, Qatar, December 20, 2019. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

Report

Social protection, not just legal protection: Migrant laborers in the Gulf

Noha Aboueldahab

Monday, August 23, 2021

A bus travels towards Tripoli by the newly-reopened coastal road which was cut between the cities of Misrata and Sirte, near Ras Lanuf, Libya August 10, 2021. Picture taken August 10, 2021. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

Order from Chaos

Libya’s peace process: What’s at stake for the Maghreb, 10 years after Gadhafi’s overthrow

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Thursday, August 19, 2021

A member of Taliban (C) stands outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 16, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

Order from Chaos

Around the halls: The Taliban retakes Afghanistan

Madiha Afzal, Ranj Alaaldin, Daniel L. Byman, Giovanna De Maio, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Marvin Kalb, Suzanne Maloney, Patrick W. Quirk, Itamar Rabinovich, Douglas A. Rediker, Bruce Riedel, Federica Saini Fasanotti, Constanze Stelzenmüller, and Shibley Telhami

Monday, August 16, 2021

A man receives a dose of the China's Sinopharm vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a mass immunization venue inside Cairo's International Exhibition Center in Cairo, Egypt June 5, 2021. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Interactive

Infographic: COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the Middle East and North Africa

Paul Dyer, Isaac Schaider, and Andrew Letzkus

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Experts

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Geneive Abdo

Former Brookings Expert

Visiting Fellow , Brookings Doha Center

Yahia H. Zoubir

Former Brookings Expert

Professor & Director , Research in Geopolitics, KEDGE Business School

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Tarik M. Yousef

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy

Director - Brookings Doha Center

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Research

UAE Ambassador to Israel, Mohamed Al Khaja, speaks during the opening ceremony of the Emirati embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel July 14, 2021. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Report

The emergence of GCC-Israel relations in a changing Middle East

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

A South Korean soldier undergoes a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test at a coronavirus testing site which is temporarily set up at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, December 15, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Report

Policy and institutional responses to COVID-19: South Korea

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Muscat, Oman.- In photos taken on November 13, 2020, it shows the streets of Muscat during the coronavirus pandemic. Oman has received $ 1 billion in direct financial aid from Qatar, at a time when the sultanate is trying to mitigate its economic crisis, which has been exacerbated by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and falling oil prices.

Report

Oman, Ten Years After the Arab Spring: The Evolution of State-Society Relations

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

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Blog Posts

U.S. President Joe Biden SPEAKS with Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Order from Chaos

Treat Iraq’s Iran-aligned militias like ISIS

Friday, July 30, 2021

Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita speaks during a visit by Israeli envoys to Rabat, Morocco, December 22, 2020. Picture taken December 22, 2020. REUTERS/Shereen Talaat

Order from Chaos

Israel, Africa, and Libya: Morocco’s foreign policy trump cards

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Syrian artist Khaled Barakeh, 44, stands amid his installation "The Muted Demonstration" outside a Koblenz court during the first trial against suspected members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's security services for crimes against humanity, in Koblenz, Germany, July 1, 2020. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

Order from Chaos

How Western policymakers can engage the new Arab diasporas

Noha Aboueldahab

Friday, July 16, 2021

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Op-Eds

Qatar's Minister of Finance Ali Sharif Al Emadi attends the opening ceremony of a forum for Arab financial institutions in Tunis April 8, 2014. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi (TUNISIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)

Op-Ed

A quiet governance revolution in Qatar?

Robert P. Beschel Jr. and Tarik M. Yousef

Thursday, June 17, 2021

A demonstrator gestures during a protest demanding political change, in Algiers, Algeria March 12, 2021. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Op-Ed

Breaking the impasse on Algeria’s political and economic crises

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Thursday, June 10, 2021

Demonstrators carry a national flag as they march, a year since the start of weekly protests calling for a complete overhaul of the ruling elite, an end to corruption and the army's withdrawal from politics, in Algiers, Algeria, February 14, 2020. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina

Op-Ed

Algeria’s upcoming election will not instigate meaningful change

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Friday, June 11, 2021

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Events

Public sector reform in the Middle East and North Africa with highlights on Jordan

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM AST

MENA Economies Emerging from the Pandemic: A Conversation with Jihad Azour

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM AST

Youth employment and livelihood in Syria: Assessing the impact of conflict and preparing for recovery

12:00 AM - 12:00 AM AST

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