Brookings Doha Center

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

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

Paul Dyer, Isaac Schaider, and Andrew Letzkus

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

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

U.S. President Joe Biden greets 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

Podcast Episode

What will US combat forces withdrawal mean for Iraq?

Ranj Alaaldin and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, July 29, 2021

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

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

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

An oil tanker is being loaded at Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura oil refinery and oil terminal in Saudi Arabia May 21, 2018. Picture taken May 21, 2018. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah

Middle East & North Africa

Economic diversification in the Gulf: Time to redouble efforts

Nader Kabbani and Nejla Ben Mimoune

Sunday, January 31, 2021

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Blog Posts

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

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 25, 2021. Majdi Mohammed/Pool via REUTERS

Order from Chaos

For Washington and the Palestinians, old policy is no substitute for sound policy

Wednesday, June 2, 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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