Middle East & North Africa

People are seen inside the world's first autonomous pods which was launched by the Roads and Transport Authority of Dubai in Dubai, United Arab Emirates February, 28, 2018. Picture taken February, 28, 2018. REUTERS/Satish Kumar - RC1DBA1AFD20

Dubai offers lessons for using artificial intelligence in local government

David Swindell, Kevin C. Desouza, and Rachel Hudgens

Friday, September 28, 2018

The American and the Israeli national flags can be seen outside the U.S Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RC12C5C0CBF0

Political donors raise new tensions over Israel

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Supporters of the Islamist Ennahda movement, Tunisia's main Islamist political party,attend a meeting regarding International Women's Day in Tunis March 10, 2013. International Women's Day fell on March 8. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi (TUNISIA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) - GM1E93B08HP01

Can Tunisia find a compromise on equal inheritance?

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Newly displaced Syrian children arrive to a refugee camp in Atimah village, Idlib province, Syria September 11, 2018. REUTERS/ Khalil Ashawi - RC1969082B70

The United States can stop a looming catastrophe for 3 million Syrians

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Steven Heydemann

Thursday, September 20, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump talks to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as they arrive for a dinner at the Art and History Museum at the Parc du Cinquantenaire during the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium July 11, 2018. Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Pool via REUTERS - RC1D6A6DA660

When strongmen fight: The US and Turkey need diplomats to resolve their leaders’ dispute

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

A general view of Jerusalem as seen from the Mount of Olives shows the Dome of the Rock, located in Jerusalem's Old City on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Ammar Awad - RC1EDA67DF60

Four lessons for the post-Oslo era

Thursday, September 13, 2018

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (R) gestures to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (3rd R), as U.S. President Bill Clinton (2nd R) stands between them, following their handshake after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord, at the White House in Washington September 13, 1993. Also in picture is Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres (L). REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1E99E00JX01

The day Israeli-Palestinian peace seemed within reach

Martin S. Indyk

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres (sitting 2nd R) signs the Israeli-PLO peace accord as then PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (R), then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (L) and then U.S. President Bill Clinton (back C) stand behind him during a ceremony, at the White House in Washington September 13, 1993. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - GM1E99D1UC401

The Oslo Accords at 25: A personal reflection

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Thursday, September 13, 2018

A Palestinian boy holding a Palestinian flag takes shelter from Israeli gunfire during clashes with Israeli soldiers at Gush Kitaf Jewish settlement near Khan-Younes south of the Gaza Strip November 7, 2000.JFL/FMS - RP2DRHYJWXAA

The Oslo Accords at 25, the second intifada at 18

Daniel L. Byman

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Smoke rises from an emergency service point after an airstrike at the rebel-held village of Maar Zita in Idlib province, Syria April 27, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah - RC11F2F53AF0

How to prevent a massacre and the creation of ISIS 2.0 in Syria’s Idlib province

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Steven Heydemann

Wednesday, September 12, 2018