Center for Middle East Policy

A boy covered with a Palestinian flag rides a bicycle during a protest against Israel's plan to annex parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in the Palestinian village of Bardala in the northern Jordan Valley June 27, 2020. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta

How Palestinians can reunite under a new agenda to counter Israel’s annexation

Salam Fayyad

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Bulgarian Muslims Mehmed Aiumankov (L), and his bride Fatme Kichukova (2nd L) walk with their friends during their wedding ceremony in the village of Ribnovo, in the Rhodope Mountains, some 210 km (130 miles) south of Sofia December 11, 2011. The remote mountain village of Ribnovo in southwest Bulgaria has kept its traditional winter marriage ceremony alive despite decades of Communist persecution, followed by poverty that forced many men to seek work abroad. The wedding ritual was resurrected with vigour among the Pomaks - Slavs who converted to Islam under Ottoman rule. Today Muslims make up 10 percent of Bulgaria's 7.4 million population. The highlight of the ceremony is the painting of the bride's face, where in a private rite open only to female in-laws, her face is covered in thick, chalky white paint and decorated with colourful sequins. Picture taken December 11, 2011. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (BULGARIA - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION)

Balkan affairs: Turkish and Saudi influence on Bulgarian Muslims

Rositsa Atanasova

Monday, June 29, 2020

Palestinian Americans and supporters demonstrate against U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., December 8, 2017. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

What Americans think about the looming Israeli annexation and Trump’s Middle East plan

Shibley Telhami

Monday, June 29, 2020

Anti-government protesters celebrate inside Tahrir Square after the announcement of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation in Cairo February 11, 2011. Egypt's Vice President Omar Suleiman said on Friday that Mubarak had bowed to pressure from the street and had resigned, handing power to the army, he said in a televised statement. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)

For the Middle East, the Arab Spring was a rare chance to control its own fate

Daniel L. Byman

Friday, June 26, 2020

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during an international conference on the future of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan, organized by Pakistan and the UN Refugee Agency in Islamabad, Pakistan February 17, 2020. REUTERS/Saiyna Bashir

Will the Afghan peace process be Pakistan’s road to redemption?

Madiha Afzal

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Syrian children smile after a heavy snowstorm at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 8, 2015. Syrian refugees in Jordan's main Zaatari refugee camp appealed for help on Thursday after a regional storm buffeted the Middle East with blizzards, rain and strong winds. The temperatures, which usually average 13 Celsius (55.4 Fahrenheit ) this time of the year have plunged to 2 to zero Celsius (35.6-32 Fahrenheit), Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD) said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT CONFLICT)

Stabilization and human development in a disordered Middle East and North Africa

Tamara Cofman Wittes, Joseph Saba, and Kevin Huggard

June 2020

A Jewish settler wearing a Jewish prayer shawl stands at the entrance to a temporary structure in the Jewish settler outpost of Maoz Ester in the Israeli-occupied West Bank June 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Israel is about to reveal its West Bank annexation plans. How will Congress respond?

Shibley Telhami

Thursday, June 25, 2020

On June 23, 2020, Bruce Riedel participated in a panel discussion on the newly published book, “Global, Regional, and Local Dynamics in the Yemen Crisis,” for which he contributed a chapter.

Bruce Riedel

Online

Standing on a makeshift stage, a commencement address is given by Katherine Bellows, a neighbor and former Executive Director of the Office of International Programs at Georgetown University, during a front yard drive-in COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) honorary graduation ceremony for three Bishop O'Connell High School students at a home in Falls Church, Virginia, U.S., June 13, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

The burden of being part of history

Shadi Hamid

Monday, June 22, 2020

All the vetting in the world isn’t going to work if the Saudi ministry responsible for internal security is asleep at the switch. Al Qaeda has infiltrated the Saudi military and the Ministry of Interior was unaware of that.

Bruce Riedel New York Times Sunday, June 21, 2020