Middle East & North Africa

A South Korean soldier undergoes a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test at a coronavirus testing site which is temporarily set up at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, December 15, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Report

Policy and institutional responses to COVID-19: South Korea

Paul Dyer

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

A demonstrator gestures during a protest demanding political change, in Algiers, Algeria March 12, 2021. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Op-Ed

Breaking the impasse on Algeria’s political and economic crises

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Thursday, June 10, 2021

Demonstrators carry a national flag as they march, a year since the start of weekly protests calling for a complete overhaul of the ruling elite, an end to corruption and the army's withdrawal from politics, in Algiers, Algeria, February 14, 2020. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina

Op-Ed

Algeria’s upcoming election will not instigate meaningful change

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Friday, June 11, 2021

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks as he delivers a joint statement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in Jerusalem March 9, 2016. REUTERS/Debbie Hill/Pool

Order from Chaos

America must rethink its unique and contradictory advocacy of Israel’s Jewishness

Shibley Telhami

Friday, June 11, 2021

Reports

Muscat, Oman.- In photos taken on November 13, 2020, it shows the streets of Muscat during the coronavirus pandemic. Oman has received $ 1 billion in direct financial aid from Qatar, at a time when the sultanate is trying to mitigate its economic crisis, which has been exacerbated by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and falling oil prices.

Report

Oman, Ten Years After the Arab Spring: The Evolution of State-Society Relations

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

An oil tanker is being loaded at Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura oil refinery and oil terminal in Saudi Arabia May 21, 2018. Picture taken May 21, 2018. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah

Middle East & North Africa

Economic diversification in the Gulf: Time to redouble efforts

Nader Kabbani and Nejla Ben Mimoune

Sunday, January 31, 2021

People are seen, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt January 5, 2021. Picture taken January 5, 2021. REUTERS/Ahmed Fahmy

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Policy and Institutional Responses to COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa: Egypt

Robert P. Beschel Jr.

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Hand Out photo dated Auguts 26, 2020 of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), not pictured, executes a passing exercise with Turkish Navy frigates TCG Barbaros (FF 244) and Burgazada (F 513) in the Mediterranean Sea. Tension is simmering in the waters of the Eastern Mediterranean as Greece and Turkey, NATO allies but historic rivals, inch toward a possible military confrontation that could end up engulfing the region. Naval vessels from both countries made a show of force in the contested region of the Eastern Mediterranean this week as a race for gas and oil reserves adds a new point of friction to old disputes. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Louis Thompson Staats IV via ABACAPRESS.COM

Report

Turkey, Europe, and the Eastern Mediterranean: Charting a way out of the current deadlock

Galip Dalay

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Admiral Ali Saeed Al Shehri speaks with soldiers during mixed maritime exercise with U.S. Navy and Saudi Royal Navy, at Saudi Military Port, Ras Al Ghar, Eastern Province, in Jubail, Saudi Arabia February 26, 2020. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed

Middle East & North Africa

What to do – and what not to do – in the Middle East

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Monday, January 25, 2021

Blog Posts

Players compete during a match of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) at the Kigali Arena in Kigali on May 27, 2021. - The French president arrived in Rwanda on May 27, 2021, for a highly symbolic visit aimed at moving on from three decades of diplomatic tensions over France's role in the 1994 genocide in the country. The French president is the first French leader since 2010 to visit the East African nation, which has long accused France of complicity in the killing of some 800,000 mostly Tutsi Rwandans. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / various sources / Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Basketball Africa League, COVID-19, and security updates

Chris Heitzig, Tamara White, and Leo Holtz

Saturday, June 5, 2021

Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett smiles as he speaks to Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid, during a special session of the Knesset whereby Israeli lawmakers elect a new president, at the plenum in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem June 2, 2021. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Order from Chaos

After Bibi

Natan Sachs

Friday, June 4, 2021

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 25, 2021. Majdi Mohammed/Pool via REUTERS

Order from Chaos

For Washington and the Palestinians, old policy is no substitute for sound policy

Omar H. Rahman

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

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Public Sector Reform in the Middle East and North Africa

Edited by Robert P. Beschel Jr. and Tarik M. Yousef

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Re-Engaging the Middle East

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The Politics of Algeria: Domestic Issues and International Relations

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Multimedia

Flames and smoke rise during Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israel-Palestinian violence, in the southern Gaza Strip May 11, 2021. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY REFILE - QUALITY REPEAT

Podcast Episode

What hope is there for de-escalation between Israel and Hamas?

Shibley Telhami and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

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Afghanistan

Biden announces a military withdrawal from Afghanistan

Madiha Afzal, Bryce Klehm, and Thomas Gibbons-Neff

The Lawfare Podcasst

Friday, April 16, 2021

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reviews Iran's new nuclear achievements during Iran's National Nuclear Energy Day in Tehran, Iran April 10, 2021. Iranian Presidency Office/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

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Will Natanz attack, uranium enrichment derail nuclear diplomacy with Iran?

Robert Einhorn and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

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