Middle East & North Africa

Students gather to protest against what they say is government interference in academia despite President Tayyip Erdogan's ousting of Melih Bulu, a rector whose appointment in January triggered months of demonstrations, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 16, 2021. The banner reads "All the government-appointed trustees at municipalities and universities will go". REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Order from Chaos

Resistance to Erdoğan’s encroachment at Turkey’s top university, one year on

Kemal Kirişci, Mine Eder, and Mert Arslanalp

Friday, January 21, 2022

Service members of the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces take part in artillery drills at a shooting range in an unknown location in eastern Ukraine, in this handout picture released December 17, 2021. Picture released December 17, 2021. Press Service of the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Podcast Episode

Russia, China, and beyond: Key U.S. foreign policy challenges

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Fred Dews

Friday, January 21, 2022

An Iranian woman wearing a protective face mask uses her smartphone while sitting at a bus-stand near a crossroad in downtown Tehran on May 30, 2021. Iranians will vote to elect the new President on June 18 amid the new corona virus outbreak in Iran. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Order from Chaos

How Middle Eastern conflicts are playing out on social media

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, January 20, 2022

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers a foreign policy address in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., January 7, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

U.S. Foreign Policy

Is Biden’s foreign policy grade “A” material?

Patricia M. Kim and Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Reports

A map of Yemen overlayed on a portrait of President John F. Kennedy.

Essay

John F. Kennedy’s Yemen crisis

Bruce Riedel

Monday, December 13, 2021

Report

Addressing youth unemployment through industries without smokestacks: A Tunisia case study

Sami Mouley and Amal Nagah Elbeshbishi

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Amman pinned on a map with the flag of Jordan

Essay

Playing a weak hand well: Jordan’s Hashemite kings and the United States

Bruce Riedel

Monday, September 27, 2021

Workers walk towards the construction site of the Lusail stadium which will be build for the upcoming 2022 Fifa soccer World Cup during a stadium tour in Doha, Qatar, December 20, 2019. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

Report

Social protection, not just legal protection: Migrant laborers in the Gulf

Noha Aboueldahab

Monday, August 23, 2021

UAE Ambassador to Israel, Mohamed Al Khaja, speaks during the opening ceremony of the Emirati embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel July 14, 2021. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Report

The emergence of GCC-Israel relations in a changing Middle East

Omar Rahman

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Blog Posts

A poster depicting Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is pictured near damaged buildings, ahead of the May 26 presidential election, in Homs, Syria May 23, 2021. Picture taken May 23, 2021. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Order from Chaos

Assad’s normalization and the politics of erasure in Syria

Steven Heydemann

Thursday, January 13, 2022

A general a view of National Museum of Qatar, in Doha, Qatar March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Ibraheem al Omari

Order from Chaos

21st century Bedouin politics: Considering the modern power of tribes in the Arabian Peninsula

Courtney Freer

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

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Order from Chaos

20 Brookings Foreign Policy books for 2021

Ted Reinert and McCall Mintzer

Thursday, December 2, 2021

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Jordan and America’s decades-long friendship

Bruce Riedel and Bill Finan

Friday, September 24, 2021

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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

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