The Middle East Institute (MEI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ariel I. Ahram as the new Editor of The Middle ...

The Middle East Institute Arts and Culture Center invites you to a special evening with acclaimed author and literary scholar Azar Nafisi, celebrated for her international bestseller Reading Lolita in ...

The harsh realities of the region’s threats and challenges, like Iran and the Gaza war, stubbornly persist following the pomp ...

Washington, DC, May 19, 2025 — The Middle East Institute (MEI) is proud to announce the appointment of Jason H. Campbell as a ...

In addition to the many trade and business deals, and the significant political announcements made during Donald Trump’s visit to the Gulf, the trip itself marks an important shift in the geopolitical ...

Hosts Alistair Taylor and Matthew Czekaj speak with MEI Senior Fellow Mohammed Soliman about President Donald Trump’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, which yielded a wave of major ...

In a repeat of his 2017 visit to Saudi Arabia, President Donald Trump is once again headed to the Middle East for the first official foreign trip of his second term. The decision to travel to Saudi ...

If the outlook was grim on the war’s first anniversary, it is now worse. As it becomes more protracted, the conflict is pushing the country further into fragmented and militarized rule and away from ...

For more than a decade, Syria’s crisis has caused unimaginable suffering inside the country and a constant stream of strategically significant negative spillover effects across the Middle East and ...

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 ...

AI is a pivotal catalyst for global innovation, with the United States at the forefront of the development of this transformative technology amid its ongoing great power rivalry with China. This ...

The Middle East Institute (MEI) is pleased to announce that it will join the Iraq Advisory Council (IAC) in co-sponsoring the IAC Hisham al-Hashimi Forum. The first IAC Hisham al-Hashimi Forum is ...