Center for Middle East Policy

A Free Syrian Army fighter walks past a torn poster amid the rubble in the old city of Aleppo August 27, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT) - GM1E98S046P01

Beyond fragility: Syria and the challenges of reconstruction in fierce states

Steven Heydemann

June 2018

Demonstrators hold Palestinian flags as they celebrate after the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a Palestinian-drafted resolution to fly Palestine's flag at United Nations headquarters, during a protest against Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah, September 11, 2015. There were 119 votes in favor out of 193 U.N. members.The United States and Israel were among eight countries that voted against the Palestinian-drafted resolution, which says the flags of non-member observer states like Palestine "shall be raised at (U.N.) Headquarters (in New York) and United Nations Offices following the flags of the member states." REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman - RTSMSD

After Oslo: Rethinking the two-state solution

June 2018

A demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision on Jerusalem, near the border with Israel in the southern Gaza Strip March 16, 2018. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa - RC1D250522B0

How the peace process killed the two-state solution

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Smoke rises from the Syria's Afrin region, as it is pictured from near the Turkish town of Hassa, on the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay province, Turkey January 20, 2018. REUTERS/Osman Orsal - RC11FDBEAC00

The fire next time: Stabilization in the Middle East and North Africa

Tamara Cofman Wittes and Brian Reeves

March 2018

Clouds gather over the Dome of the Rock, located on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City November 6, 2017. Picture taken November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad - RC1E63CA8C10

The Middle East and Russia: American attitudes on Trump’s foreign policy

Shibley Telhami

Friday, December 1, 2017

Soldiers stand guard under the pictures of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic (R), and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the anniversary ceremony of Iran's Islamic Revolution at the Khomeini shrine in the Behesht Zahra cemetery, south of Tehran, February 1, 2011.

The roots and evolution of Iran’s regional strategy

Suzanne Maloney

September 2017

An Israeli soldier guards an observation tower, July 17, 2005. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic GOT/mk (ISRAEL POLITICS CONFLICT) BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE - RTXJU89

Enigma: The anatomy of Israel’s intelligence failure almost 45 years ago

September 25, 2017

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan attends an inauguration ceremony of a natural gas pipeline from Turkey to Greece, at Ipsala border crossing between Greece and Turkey, November 18, 2007. The pipeline will carry natural gas from Azerbaijan to the European Union. REUTERS/Grigoris Siamidis (GREECE) - RTX322O

How much can one strongman change a country?

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Protesters gather outside the Trump Building at 40 Wall St. to take action against Americas refugee ban in New York City, U.S., March 28, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - RTX333GZ

American attitudes on President Trump’s early policies

Shibley Telhami

Thursday, May 11, 2017

Continuity and change in U.S.-Japan economic relations

How to Islamize an Islamic Republic: Jamaat-e-Islami in its own words

Asif Luqman Qazi

Tuesday, April 25, 2017