Please join the Middle East Institute (MEI) for a half-day conference focused on Syria one year into its historic transition.

As he reluctantly tries to forge a settlement in the Middle East, President Bush is being pushed toward Israel by forces that may agree on little else. In addition to the powerful Jewish lobby, some ...

The Middle East figures prominently in the second Trump administration’s foreign policy, beginning even before Trump’s inauguration with the administration’s involvement in the January 2025 Gaza ...

Following the Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iranian nuclear sites and the subsequent Iranian-Israeli cease-fire, another agreement seemed to be close at hand, this time in Gaza. Late last week, however, ...

On September 9, Israel shocked the world by bombing a villa in a residential neighborhood of Doha in an attempt to kill senior Hamas officials. It was the second time Qatar was struck this year. (In ...

The rise of US transactionalism is opening space for middle powers to act as strategic accomplices, regardless of their ...