Brookings Doha Center

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

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

Morocco-Saudi relations: Trouble amongst royals?

Adel Abdel Ghafar and Anna L. Jacobs

Friday, March 1, 2019

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 -

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

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

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

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)

The Iran question, again

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Iran-Europe relations, 40 year anniversary of Iranian revolution

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Saturday, February 9, 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

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

Monday, February 4, 2019

Omar Rahman

The evolving relationship between Israel and the Gulf countries

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Israel Prime Minister Office Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Sultan Qaboos bin Said in this undated handout provided by the Israel Prime Minister Office, in Oman. Israel GPO/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC191FF37EB0

What’s behind the relationship between Israel and Arab Gulf states?

Monday, January 28, 2019

History tells us over and again to think seriously about what happens next, and how....Libya and Egypt show the results of uncontrolled regime change when there’s no thought about the day after.

New York Times Thursday, January 24, 2019