Nov 6, 2024 · it is possible to extrapolate how the incoming second Trump administration may respond to the complex situation in the Middle East by examining the president-elect’s record during his first term, what he has said since, as well as public statements of his running-mate, Sen. J. D. Vance. Two main issues are likely to dominate Donald Trump's regional agenda when he comes to power: Iran and ...

Sep 26, 2024 · This is a critical year for the future of democracy. Half the world’s population will go to the polls in 2024, at a time when citizens in America and across the globe are losing faith in democratic institutions.

2023 Program. On September 14th, 2023, MEI hosted it's inaugural CENTCOM Commanders Council Dinner at its headquarters in Washington D.C. The dinner featured an off-record conversation with four former CENTCOM Commanders: Generals (ret.) Anthony Zinni, John Abizaid, Joseph Votel, and Frank McKenzie; as well as remarks from the current CENTCOM Director of Strategy, Plans, and Policy, Maj. Gen ...

The opening act of President Donald Trump’s second administration had very little to do with Middle East policy issues. It is too soon to predict what approach Trump might take on that front or even how much he will prioritize the region relative to …

Dr. Susan E. Saxton is the Chief Operating Officer at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. She has over 25 years of education and business expertise focused on transformational leadership and corporate strategy in both developed and emerging parts of the world, most recently in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region. Previously, Dr. Saxton was the Founding President at the ...

The Middle East Journal is the oldest peer-reviewed publication in North America dedicated to the study of the modern Middle East. First printed in 1947, the Journal continues to present readers with original and objective research and analysis, as well as source material, on the area from Morocco to Pakistan.. Each issue of The Middle East Journal includes articles written by …

Dec 19, 2024 · The war in Gaza continues as the Biden administration nears its end, leaving President-elect Donald Trump with a vastly different Middle East from the one he inherited in his first term. Khaled Elgindy, Director of the Palestine & Palestinian-Israeli Affairs program at MEI, is joined by Tamara Kharroub and Daniel Levy to discuss Israel's ongoing military campaign in Gaza, the fragile cease ...

Courtney Lobel is Chief Development Officer at the Middle East Institute, where she oversees fundraising strategy to advance MEI’s non-partisan policy analysis, education programs, and arts center. Courtney is a development executive with 15 years experience in senior roles at international policy organizations and the humanitarian sector.

Since the end of the civil war in Syria, government officials have inaugurated high-end tourist projects and upscale urban housing schemes, while at the same time preventing Syrian refugees and internally displaced persons from returning to their ruined neighborhoods or rebuilding their demolished homes. The focus on luxury housing in a country devastated by …

Dec 16, 2022 · The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War. by Craig Whitlock. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021. 359 pages. "Washington Post investigative journalist Craig Whitlock has pieced together what he calls 'a secret history of the war,' based on more than 1,000 interviews with military and civilian personnel involved from 2001 to 2021. If truth is the universal 'first casualty of war ...