Center for Middle East Policy

A general view shows Jerusalem's Old City and the Dome of the Rock, December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun - RC1EB590C480

Why is Trump undoing decades of U.S. policy on Jerusalem?

Shibley Telhami

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Washington, DC, December 1-3, 2017 December 1 to 3, the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings will host its 14th annual Saban Forum, titled America First and the Middle East. The 2017 Saban Forum will feature a video message from Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, and conversations with Jared Kushner, senior advisor to President Donald J. Trump, Ayelet Shaked, Israeli minister of justice, John R. Allen, Brookings president, several U.S. senators and other current and former officials from the United States, Israel, and other countries and international organizations. Much of the Forum proceedings are off the record, but some key events will be webcast on the Brookings website.

What Jared Kushner gets right about Middle East peace

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

-PHOTO TAKEN 03APR03- The White House is seen from the top of the Washington Monument April 3, 2003. - PBEAHUOQMBK

Watch: What do Americans think of Trump’s foreign policy?

Shibley Telhami

Friday, December 1, 2017

An aerial view of the coast of the Red Sea is pictured through the window of an airplane near Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt November 1, 2016. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - S1BEUKJXJNAB

How Obama and Trump left a vacuum in the Middle East

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Egyptian relatives and friends carry the coffin of the officer Khaled al-Maghrabi, who was killed during a suicide bomb attack on an army checkpoint in Sinai, during his funeral in his hometown Toukh, Al Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt 8 July, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - RC195508E300

Misunderstanding the victims of the Sinai massacre

Monday, November 27, 2017

Yemeni-American Muslim sisters Hajar Udayni (L) and Sara Udayni Udayni take part in Eid al-Fitr prayers in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., June 25, 2017. REUTERS/Kholood Eid - RC169CD80CC0

Educating Americans to defuse Islamaphobia

Thursday, November 16, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump takes his seat before his speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC126746CCF0

Is America a bad wingman in the Middle East?

Daniel L. Byman

Monday, November 13, 2017

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, attends the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia October 24, 2017. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed - RC14B99CF4A0

Muhammed bin Salman and the push to establish a new Saudi political order

Adel Abdel Ghafar

Thursday, November 9, 2017

People walk next to a poster depicting Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, who has resigned from his post, along a street in the mainly Sunni Beirut neighbourhood of Tariq al-Jadideh in Beirut, Lebanon November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir - RC1556EE7010

Hariri’s resignation and why the Middle East is on edge, again

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

An investor gestures as he monitors a screen displaying stock information in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser - RC19127833B0

Trump’s bet on Saudis looks increasingly dangerous, and the $110 billion payoff? Unlikely.

Tuesday, November 7, 2017