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May 9, 2024 · Arabian Peninsula Affairs. MEI’s Arabian Peninsula Affairs program aims to enhance U.S. understanding of the major issues and opportunities in front of the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council who are key political, …
Expert Views: A US regional response to the security threats posed …
Oct 22, 2024 · The Iran-backed Houthis are clearly winning — what needs to be done? Despite being battered, for nine months, by precision air attacks launched by forces of the United States and United Kingdom, along with absorbing retaliatory strikes by Israel, the Iran-backed Houthis have not just survived, they are thriving. This is not an arbitrary assessment; it is borne out by a host of metrics that ...
Charles Lister - Middle East Institute
Charles Lister is a senior fellow and the Director of the Syria and Countering Terrorism & Extremism programs at the Middle East Institute. His work focuses on all-things Syria and on issues of terrorism and insurgency across the Levant. Within MEI, Lister currently directs two major international initiatives focused on Syria:
America’s Strategic Drift in the Middle East ... - Middle East Institute
Oct 2, 2024 · Supporting Israel’s Self-Defense. Overall Grade for US Policy: B (Same as B in July, down from A- in April). The Biden administration’s top priority, as demonstrated in word and deed, is to support Israel’s self-defense, and it has done so with few restrictions, even as it raised some of its own concerns and criticisms about Israel’s conduct of the war.
The Middle East Journal
The Middle East Journal is the oldest peer-reviewed publication in North America dedicated to the study of the modern Middle East. First printed in 1947, the Journal continues to present readers with original and objective research and analysis, as well as source material, on the area from Morocco to Pakistan.. Each issue of The Middle East Journal includes articles written by …
MEI Podcasts - Middle East Institute
Oct 30, 2024 · This is a critical year for the future of democracy. Half the world’s population will go to the polls in 2024, at a time when citizens in America and across the globe are losing faith in democratic institutions.
Iran Program - Middle East Institute
Dec 9, 2024 · MEI’s Iran program covers Iranian domestic politics, civil society and social trends, and Tehran’s soft- and hard-power approach to geopolitical competition with other regional states through research, articles, papers, and public and private events.
10 Books to Expand Your Knowledge of the Middle East
Dec 16, 2022 · The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War. by Craig Whitlock. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021. 359 pages. "Washington Post investigative journalist Craig Whitlock has pieced together what he calls 'a secret history of the war,' based on more than 1,000 interviews with military and civilian personnel involved from 2001 to 2021. If truth is the universal 'first casualty of war ...
Middle East Dialogue May 2024 Meeting Report
Oct 3, 2024 · The Middle East Dialogue, a panel of regional and extra-regional experts convened by the Middle East Institute’s Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program and the Middle East Council for Global Affairs, met in Doha, Qatar, on May 21-22, 2024, to explore regional political and economic dynamics. This moderator’s report provides a summary of the issues and recommendations discussed.
Edward Said and the Two Critiques of Orientalism
Apr 20, 2012 · Originally posted September 2009. Due to an accident of history, I found myself traveling around the Middle East in 1955/6, and then studying at Oxford at the birth of modern Middle Eastern Studies in the West signaled, inter alia, by the creation of the Center of Middle Eastern studies at Saint Antony’s College.There, I participated, in a very small way, in a process which required creating ...