Middle East & North Africa

A military vehicle is pictured in front of the parliament building in Tunis, Tunisia July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

Order from Chaos

Academic experts believe that Middle East politics are actually getting worse

Shibley Telhami and Marc Lynch

Monday, September 20, 2021

A worker walks past the National Museum in the southwestern city of Taiz, Yemen May 26, 2021. Picture taken May 26, 2021. REUTERS/Anees Mahyoub

Order from Chaos

Biden’s broken promise on Yemen

Annelle R. Sheline and Bruce Riedel

Thursday, September 16, 2021

A view shows cars stuck in a traffic jam in Beirut, Lebanon June 10, 2021. Picture taken June 10, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Future Development

How to kick-start the decoupling of emissions from economic growth in MENA

Martin Philipp Heger and Lukas Vashold

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Nelson Mandela, Shibley Telhami, and Jehan Sadat at the Sadat Lecture at the University of Maryland at College Park, November 14, 2001.

Order from Chaos

September 11 and America’s response through the eyes of Nelson Mandela

Shibley Telhami

Thursday, September 9, 2021

Reports

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 H. Rahman

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

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

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

Blog Posts

File photo dated March 25, 2003 of United States President George W. Bush (R) speaks next to US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (C) and US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz (L) during a visit at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Donald Rumsfeld, the acerbic architect of the Iraq war and a master Washington power player who served as US secretary of defense for two presidents, has died at the age of 88. Photo by Alex Wong/Pool via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Order from Chaos

Reflections on the long-term repercussions of September 11 for US policy in the Middle East

Itamar Rabinovich

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Protesters hold up their mobile phones during a demonstration in support of the EU integration at Independence Square in Kiev November 28, 2013. The European Union told Ukraine it was risking its economic future by rejecting a free-trade deal in favour of closer ties with Russia, hours before a likely frosty encounter on Thursday evening between EU leaders and President Viktor Yanukovich. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

Order from Chaos

Journalism after 9/11

Marvin Kalb

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney (R) speaks to President George W. Bushby phone inside the operations center at the White House with staff,September 11, 2001, the day of the terror attacks in New York andWashington. Bush on September 16, 2001 asked "horrified" Americans togo back to work this week, cautioning them to be alert for more attacksand to brace for a long crusade to "rid the world of evildoers".Picture released by the White House on September 16. REUTERS/WHITEHOUSE photo by David BohrerME

Order from Chaos

September 11 in the White House

Bruce Riedel

Monday, August 23, 2021

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Events

2021

Jun

Past Event

Public sector reform in the Middle East and North Africa with highlights on Jordan

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM AST

2021

Jun

Past Event

President Jimmy Carter and the Middle East: Reexamining his legacy forty years later

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Roundtable on the replenishment of the IDA-20

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Online only

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Related Books

Public Sector Reform in the Middle East and North Africa

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

2020

Re-Engaging the Middle East

Edited by Dafna H. Rand and Andrew P. Miller

2020

The Politics of Algeria: Domestic Issues and International Relations

By Yahia H. Zoubir

2020

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Experts

Bruce Riedel

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

Director - The Intelligence Project

Suzanne Maloney

Vice President and Director - Foreign Policy

MaloneySuzanne

Itamar Rabinovich

Distinguished Fellow - Foreign Policy

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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

FILE PHOTO: A U.S. soldier of 2-12 Infantry 4BCT-4ID Task Force Mountain Warrior takes a break during a night mission near Honaker Miracle camp at the Pesh valley of Kunar Province, Afghanistan, August 12, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

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.

Podcast Episode

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

Robert Einhorn and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

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More on Middle East & North Africa

Protesters stand atop a vehicle during demonstrations in Cairo January 29, 2011. Thousands of angry Egyptians rallied in central Cairo on Saturday to demand that President Hosni Mubarak resign, dismissing his offer of dialogue and calling on troops to come over to their side. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

Sound and fury in the post-9/11 Middle East

Shadi Hamid

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Medical personnel arrive in transport aircraft of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force at the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 17, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT. SEARCH "1ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE WUHAN LOCKDOWN" FOR THE PHOTOS.

The center cannot hold: Will a divided world survive common threats?

Thomas Wright

Foreign Affairs September/October 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden tours the National Counterterrorism Center Watch Floor during a visit to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in nearby McLean, Virginia outside Washington, U.S., July 27, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

The good enough doctrine: Learning to live with terrorism

Daniel L. Byman

Foreign Affairs September/October 2021

A bus travels towards Tripoli by the newly-reopened coastal road which was cut between the cities of Misrata and Sirte, near Ras Lanuf, Libya August 10, 2021. Picture taken August 10, 2021. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

Libya’s peace process: What’s at stake for the Maghreb, 10 years after Gadhafi’s overthrow

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Thursday, August 19, 2021

A member of Taliban (C) stands outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 16, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

Around the halls: The Taliban retakes Afghanistan

Madiha Afzal, Ranj Alaaldin, Daniel L. Byman, Giovanna De Maio, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Marvin Kalb, Suzanne Maloney, Patrick W. Quirk, Itamar Rabinovich, Douglas A. Rediker, Bruce Riedel, Federica Saini Fasanotti, Constanze Stelzenmüller, and Shibley Telhami

Monday, August 16, 2021

A man receives a dose of the China's Sinopharm vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a mass immunization venue inside Cairo's International Exhibition Center in Cairo, Egypt June 5, 2021. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Infographic: COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the Middle East and North Africa

Paul Dyer, Isaac Schaider, and Andrew Letzkus

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

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