Center for Middle East Policy

Marc and Debra Tice, parents of U.S. journalist Austin Tice, walk past a poster of their son after the news conference in Beirut, Lebanon December 4, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Order from Chaos

Questions President Trump needs to answer before negotiating with the Assad regime over hostages

Steven Heydemann

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

The US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman transits the Suez Canal, Egypt towards the Mediterranean Sea in a photo released by the US Navy June 2, 2016. U.S. fighter jets on Friday launched strikes against Islamic State from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, the U.S. Navy said, marking the first time a U.S. aircraft carrier targeted areas in the Middle East from the Mediterranean since the Iraq War began in 2003. U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Anthony Flynn/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Order from Chaos

How to downsize the US presence in the Middle East

Bruce Riedel and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump, at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Saudi Arabia

How the U.S.-Saudi relationship could change with a Biden victory

Daniel L. Byman and Jackie Northam

Monday, October 19, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he departs for Baltimore, Maryland from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington U.S., September 12, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC19CC8CBAF0

Democracy

Blaming the deep state

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Democracy October 2020

Spotlight: Iran's revolution, 40 years on

Iran’s Islamic Revolution shook the world in 1979. The dramatic event and its complex ripple effects — currents that continue to be felt today — redrew the geopolitical order. Forty years later, Brookings experts look back on the rise of the Islamic Republic and explore what the revolution means for today’s volatile Middle East.

Cvr: The Iranian Revolution at Forty

The Iranian Revolution at Forty

Edited by Suzanne Maloney

2020

FILE PHOTO OF FEBRUARY 1979 - Supporters of the leader and founder of the Islamic revolution Ayatollah Khomeini hold his picture in Tehran during the country's revolution in February 1979. Iraninans celebrate the 20th anniverssary of the Revolution this week.DS/WS - RP1DRIHULAAA

Order from Chaos

The Iranian revolution—A timeline of events

Suzanne Maloney and Keian Razipour

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Pro-Khomeini demonstration in Mashhad - 1978. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pro-Khomeini_demonstration_in_Mashhad_-_1978.jpg

Order from Chaos

Watch: Experts look back on Iran’s 1979 revolution and the US response

Suzanne Maloney and Bruce Riedel

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Head shot Shah of Iran, Washington, D.C.. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_shot_of_Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi.tif

Order from Chaos

What Iran’s revolution looked like from inside the shah’s palace

Thursday, January 24, 2019

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Experts

Natan Sachs

Director - Center for Middle East Policy

Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Suzanne Maloney

Vice President and Director - Foreign Policy

Daniel L. Byman

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

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Research

A Likud party election campaign banner with Russian writing in seen near a road sign in Ashdod, Israel September 9, 2019. Picture taken on September 9, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Israel

The other tribe: Israel’s Russian-speaking community and how it is changing the country

Monday, September 21, 2020

Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal (4th L), U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (5th L), Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (centre L) and EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton (centre R), pose with diplomats at the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) in Istanbul June 7, 2012. REUTERS/Saul Loeb/Pool (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS)

Terrorism & Extremism

Preparing the Global Counterterrorism Forum for the next decade

Monday, August 17, 2020

To combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, covid-19, the Trackvirus application has been developed in Israel to consult in real time the routes taken by infected people. Monday April 13, 2020.Pour lutter contre la propagation de la pandemie du coronavirus, covid-19, l'application Trackvirus a ete develope en israel pour consulter en temps reel les itineraires emprunte par les personnes infectees. Lundi 13 Avril 2020.NO USE FRANCE

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Politics and International Relations

Digital contact tracing and the coronavirus: Israeli and comparative perspectives

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler and Rachel Aridor Hershkowitz

August 2020

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Events

Anticipating COVID-19: A view from the intelligence community

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Past Policy 2020 Event

The future of US policy in Afghanistan

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

Jihadism at a crossroads

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

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Blog Posts

U.S. Army soldiers with the 1st platoon, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 82nd Airborne Division, patrol in Mainjui as local women walk by in Arghandab valley in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, May 9, 2010. U.S. forces are massing on the outskirts of Kandahar for the biggest military offensive of the nearly nine-year-old war, in the hope of turning the tide against a strengthening Taliban insurgency. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST)

Order from Chaos

America should stay in Afghanistan until an intra-Afghan deal is reached — not forever

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

REFILE - CORRECTING TYPO An Iranian woman holds a red flower as she attends a ceremony to bury remains of 150 "martyrs" from 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war in Tehran, Iran June 27, 2019. Nazanin Tabatabaee/West Asia News Agency via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

Order from Chaos

How the Iran-Iraq war will shape the region for decades to come

Friday, October 9, 2020

The body of Kuwait's late Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, who died after treatment in U.S., is carried by officials during his funeral procession, in Kuwait City, Kuwait September 30, 2020. Kuwait News Agency/Handout Via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGES WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

Order from Chaos

The post-Sabah era in Kuwait

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

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Books

road warriors

Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad

By Daniel L. Byman

2019

Rethinking Political Islam

Rethinking Political Islam

By Shadi Hamid and William McCants

2017

"Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World" (St. Martin's Press, 2016) by Shadi Hamid

Islamic Exceptionalism

By Shadi Hamid

2016