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 ...

Trump administration may respond to the complex situation in the Middle East by examining the president-elect’s record during ...

The Editorial Department manages the online output from MEI’s think tank, the Policy Center, including articles, reports, books, and, in conjunction with the Communications Department, multimedia ...

(Washington, D.C.) - After six years as President and CEO, and five years as VP of Policy, Dr. Paul Salem will relocate to the Middle East to assume a new international role for MEI. Salem thanked the ...

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have competing styles and visions for the Middle East, but ...

Washington, D.C. – The Middle East Institute (MEI) is pleased to announce the election of Gen. (ret.) John P. Abizaid as chairman of its Board of Governors. The board voted unanimously in favor of his ...

(Washington, D.C.) - The Middle East Institute (MEI) is pleased to announce the arrival of Dr. Susan E. Saxton, who assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) on January 2, 2024. Dr. Saxton ...

Dr. Abla Abdel Latif is currently the Chair of the Presidential Advisory Council for Economic Development; and the Executive Director and Director of Research of The Egyptian Center for Economic ...

In 2015 all member states of the United Nations adopted an ambitious plan for the future. It’s called the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The UN describes it as an urgent call to action for ...

The Black Sea has recently become one of the world’s most important dynamically shifting geostrategic maritime areas, with ...

That distinction showed the Biden administration recognizes that "normalization between Arab states and Israel can't come at the expense of the Palestinians," said Khaled Elgindy, a former adviser to ...

Robert Ford, a resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington and former American ambassador to Syria from 2010 to 2014, said that because the United States effectively controls the area ...