Middle East & North Africa

Jordanian students sit in class at Baptist School in Ajloun city, 77km north of Amman, October 1, 2009. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN EDUCATION SOCIETY) - GM1E5A11PVB01

Education Plus Development

To create systems change in education, shift away from a ‘project mentality’

Friday, August 16, 2019

Members of UAE-backed southern Yemeni separatists forces are seen together with their supporters as they march during a rally in southern port city in Aden, Yemen August 15, 2019. REUTERS/Fawaz Salman - RC12682D60A0

Order from Chaos

Saudi Arabia and the civil war within Yemen’s civil war

Thursday, August 15, 2019

U.S. Marines observe an Iranian fast attack craft from USS John P. Murtha during a Strait of Hormuz transit, Arabian Sea off Oman, in this picture released on July 18, 2019. Donald Holbert/U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS- THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC1FF5621490

Order from Chaos

Germany should pull together a European naval mission in the Gulf

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Wednesday, August 7, 2019

People gather for a vigil to remember victims of the mass shootings at Dayton and El Paso, at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., August 5, 2019. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz - RC1946393E00

Order from Chaos

What the post-9/11 war on terror can teach us about responding to domestic terrorism today

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Reports

Demonstrators hold a national flag during a protest demanding the removal of the ruling elite in Algiers, Algeria July 12, 2019. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina - RC123B9B63D0

Middle East & North Africa

Algeria’s uprising: A survey of protesters and the military

Sharan Grewal, M. Tahir Kilavuz, and Robert Kubinec

July 2019

A general view shows the Djibouti port which is owned by DP World February 26, 2006. The Bush administration has come under fire for approving the sale of the nation's port operations to a state-owned Dubai company. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah - GM1DSAUKGMAA

Gulf States

Red Sea Rivalries: The Gulf, the Horn, and the new geopolitics of the Red Sea

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) are seen in Zumar, Nineveh province, Iraq October 18, 2017. REUTERS/Ari Jalal - RC1E698CF530

Iraq

Pitfalls of the paramilitary paradigm: The Iraqi state, geopolitics, and Al-Hashd al-Shaabi

Vanda Felbab-Brown

June 2019

Iran flag

Iran

Swamped in a triple crisis

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Monday, June 3, 2019

Pakistani religious students attend a lesson at Darul Uloom Haqqania, an Islamic seminary and alma mater of several Taliban leaders, in Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province September 14, 2013. The seminary, founded in 1947, is now one of biggest and most respected Islamic institutions in South Asia. It propagates a hard-line curriculum based on the radical Deobandi strain of Sunni Islam. Picture taken September 14, 2013. To match story PAKISTAN-TALIBAN/ REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION RELIGION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E99F1AX201

Pakistan

Saudi Arabia’s hold on Pakistan

May 2019

Blog Posts

RTS2HKED

Up Front

GCC News Roundup: UAE oil tanker seized, Saudi Arabia releases Qatar national (July 1-31)

Monday, August 5, 2019

A photograph circulated by the U.S. State Departments Twitter account to announce a $1 million USD reward for al Qaeda key leader Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden, is seen March 1, 2019. State Department/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC19395BB9E0

Order from Chaos

The death of Hamza bin Laden and the weakness of al-Qaida

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, August 1, 2019

An internally displaced woman from drought hit area carries a jerrycan of water as she walks towards her shelter at a makeshift settlement area in Dollow, Somalia April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - RC13A0B69130

Africa in focus

Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals: A long way to go

Monday, July 29, 2019

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Events

Algeria’s uprising: Protesters and the military

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Investigating the Khashoggi murder: Insights from UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM EDT

The impact of militias on governance and geopolitics in the Middle East and North Africa

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

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Related Books

road warriors

Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad

By Daniel L. Byman

2019

Cover: The European Union and North Africa

The European Union and North Africa

Edited by Adel Abdel Ghafar

2019

Cover: Blind Spot

Blind Spot

By Khaled Elgindy

2019

Multimedia

Health workers carry a national flag as they march during a protest calling on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to quit, in Algiers, Algeria March 19, 2019. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC16969E1C30

Order from Chaos

Surveying protesters and the military amid Algeria’s uprising

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Shi'ite fighters ride on the back of a truck with their weapons in al-Fatha, northeast of Baiji, October 18, 2015. Iraqi forces backed by Shi'ite militia fighters say they have retaken a mountain palace complex of former President Saddam Hussein from Islamic State fighters, as government forces push ahead on a major offensive against the insurgents. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani - GF10000249718

Order from Chaos

Militias in the Middle East and North Africa: “It’s the governance, stupid!”

Jesse I. Kornbluth

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood take part in a sit-in against the Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner's visit to Jordan, near the U.S. Embassy, in Amman, Jordan, May 28, 2019. Picture taken May 28, 2019. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed - RC16915627A0

Podcast Episode

Will the Bahrain workshop lead to progress on Middle East peace?

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

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