For years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader and ultimate powerbroker, has been insisting to his people that ...

The reverberations of Israel’s strike on the Hamas negotiating team in Doha yesterday are still rippling across the globe and ...

The late-night open house features MEI's new gallery exhibition, Arab Pop Art: Between East and West, as well as live Arabic musical performances by Laith AlAttar (oud & vocals) and Ali Bandeali ...

Over the summer, five Western allies announced their readiness to recognize a Palestinian state during this year’s annual ...

The Middle East Institute (MEI) is proud to announce the appointment of Ambassador (ret.) Yael Lempert as its new Vice ...

Europe’s leverage is fleeting. On Oct. 18, the E3’s legal capacity to trigger snapback unilaterally will expire, ending what little procedural leverage remains. Meanwhile, Iran remains convulsed by ...

As the Western Sahara conflict reaches its fifth decade, the territorial dispute remains unresolved and largely unknown. MEI's Intissar Fakir unpacks the Western Sahara's complex history and the rival ...

The most striking thing about Donald Trump’s foreign policy at the seven-month mark of his second administration is how it ...

At the end of August, the future of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), established nearly 50 years ago, ...

After 11 years of war in Syria, the COVID-19 pandemic, and an economic crisis, education for Syrian children and youth has been severely disrupted, leaving more than 2.4 million out of school. Failure ...

The global response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has focused new attention on friction between the United States and its traditional partners in the Gulf and reinforced skepticism regarding the ...