Middle East & North Africa

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

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

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

What does Mohammed Morsi’s death mean for Egypt?

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

General view of the port terminal in Algiers, Algeria March 13, 2019. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - RC1308CF2410

How will the Continental Free Trade Area transform Africa?

Friday, May 31, 2019

The fast combat support ship USNS Arctic pulls alongside the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to conduct a replenishment-at-sea in the Mediterranean Sea.

Is the US on a collision course with Iran?

Suzanne Maloney

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC164B05C010

Why is the Trump administration pushing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorists?

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

A Palestinian woman argues with an Israeli border policewoman over the removal of a Palestinian tent whose owners said they were informed by the Israeli forces that they didnt obtain a permit to erect the tent, in Susiya village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 18, 2019. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma - RC15417709C0

Is the Israeli-Palestinian peace process dead?

Khaled Elgindy, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Fred Dews

Friday, April 19, 2019

People gather during a nationwide strike against the government's refusal to raise wages in Tunis, Tunisia January 17, 2019. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi - RC180C53AD40

The next democracy debate in the Middle East: Democracy and Disorder Podcast Series

Torrey Taussig, Salam Fayyad, and Sharan Grewal

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

A view of minarets of Prophet Mohammad's Mosque in the holy city of Medina January 3, 2007. Pilgrims from all over the world gather in the holy city of Mecca each year for the five-day haj, which is a duty for every able-bodied Muslim at least once in a lifetime. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (SAUDI ARABIA) FOR BEST QUALITY IMAGE: ALSO SEE GF2E5440NM001 - GM1DUHYIKUAA

Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

FILE PHOTO OF FEBRUARY 1979 - Supporters of the leader and founder of the Islamic revolution Ayatollah Khomeini hold his picture in Tehran during the country's revolution in February 1979. Iraninans celebrate the 20th anniverssary of the Revolution this week.DS/WS - RP1DRIHULAAA

Iran’s 1979 revolution and its legacies today

Daniel L. Byman, Jeffrey Feltman, Elaine Kamarck, Suzanne Maloney, Bruce Riedel, and Fred Dews

Friday, January 25, 2019

Indonesian Muslims attend Friday prayers at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta July 23, 2010. Indonesia's Muslims learned last week they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa. Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued an edict in March stipulating westward was the correct direction from the world's most populous Muslim country. It has now said the true direction is north-west. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA - Tags: RELIGION ODDLY IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E67N18IZ01

How Saudi Arabia and Iran use Islam in foreign policy

Shadi Hamid, Peter Mandaville, and Fred Dews

Friday, January 11, 2019