Middle East & North Africa

Foreign ministers attend the 26th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in Bangkok, Thailand August 2, 2019. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

Global China: Regional influence and strategy

Tarun Chhabra, Rush Doshi, Ryan Hass, and Emilie Kimball

July 2020

China's President Xi Jinping (R) and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud shake hands during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China March 16, 2017. REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/POOL

Saudi Arabia’s relations with China: Functional, but not strategic

Monday, July 20, 2020

A general view shows a meeting of the Arab League's foreign ministers after U.S. President Donald Trump announced his Middle East peace plan, in Cairo, Egypt, February 1, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Israel and the Middle East amid U.S.-China competition

Natan Sachs and Kevin Huggard

Monday, July 20, 2020

Heavy traffic in Kampala, Uganda

Figures of the week: Africa’s urbanization dynamics

David Kanos and Chris Heitzig

Thursday, July 16, 2020

TUNIS, TUNISIA - MAY 28: Tunisian high school final year students wearing face mask return to schools after two months of break due to the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic restrictions in Tunis, Tunisia on May 28, 2020.

Pandemic Politics: Tunisia’s ‘success’ in fighting COVID-19: Blighted by lingering marginalization?

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Sister of ten-year-old malnourished girl Afaf Hussein holds a pot of rice she cooked in their kitchen outside their house in the village of al-Jaraib in the northwestern province of Hajjah, Yemen, February 19, 2019. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Middle East food security amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Deciphering Turkey’s new regional policy

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM AST

An Iraqi female demonstrator waves an Iraqi flag during an ongoing anti-government protest, in Baghdad, Iraq November 1, 2019. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah - RC164BCA0C20

BDC Snapshots: The Iraqi state’s crisis of legitimacy

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Security men wearing protective masks stand on a street during a 24-hour curfew amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sanaa, Yemen May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Yemen’s disaster becomes “cataclysmic”

Monday, July 6, 2020

Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi delivers a speech during the vote on the new government at the parliament headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, May 7, 2020. Iraqi Parliament Media Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Was Iraq’s prime minister right to go after an Iranian proxy?

Wednesday, July 1, 2020