The cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas announced on Jan. 15 took more than a year to reach and almost certainly will ...

A very different Middle East will greet President-elect Trump this month compared to the region he experienced during his ...

With a nearly unanimous 99 out of 128 votes, the Lebanese parliament elected the head of the army, Gen. Joseph Aoun, as ...

Harry Halem is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Senior Fellow at Yorktown Institute, and a Senior Fellow in Defense at the ...

When Benjamin Netanyahu returned as Israel’s prime minister in December 2022, leading a coalition that included far-right nationalist parties, the administration of American President Joe Biden took ...

Note: This essay was originally published in 2011. In 1946, inspired by his experiences in the region prior to World War II, George Camp Keiser established a center for the study of the Middle East.

Available in print and electronically, and with a foreword by top national security and cyber expert Richard A. Clarke, this is the first anthology of its kind to specifically detail cyber warfare in ...

Hugh Pope, Turkey/Cyprus Project Director for the International Crisis Group (ICG), discussed theissue of recent speculation regarding Turkey’s “shift away from the West.” Mr. Pope strongly rejected ...

Aspirantum: This blog post on the Persian alphabet discusses its history and relation with Arabic, in addition to providing the various forms of Persian letters and their sounds. Easy Persian: This ...

Home page for all research guides published by the Oman Library at the Middle East Institute. Welcome to the home page for all resource guides published by the Oman Library at MEI! Many of the ...

Dr. Karen E. Young is a political economist focusing on the Gulf, the broader MENA region and the intersection of energy, finance and security. She is a Senior Research Scholar at the Columbia ...