MEI Podcasts - Middle East Institute
Oct 30, 2024 · Middle East Focus. Middle East Focus is MEI's flagship weekly podcast featuring discussion and analysis on U.S. foreign policy and contemporary political and social issues in the Middle East. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and …
Essential questions about the Russia-Hamas link: The evidence and …
Nov 28, 2023 · As the war in Gaza continues to unfold, essential questions about Russian and Iranian support for Hamas remain. They include whether Russia played any role in providing support to Hamas ahead of its Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Evidence available from foreign-language publications in Russian, Persian, Arabic, and Hebrew, as well as those in English, provides provocative leads, which, if accurate ...
Comparing Harris and Trump on Middle East Policy
Sep 27, 2024 · The Democratic Party Platform was passed on July 16, 2024, prior to President Joe Biden dropping out of the race, and was released on Aug. 18, just ahead of the Democratic National Convention, when Harris formally accepted her party’s nomination. The Platform lays out nine priorities ranging from the economy and the climate crisis to immigration and American leadership abroad, the last of ...
Rethinking Democracy Ep. 4: China's Growing ... - Middle East …
Sep 26, 2024 · About the series: 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. We often view the rollback of democracy and threats to the liberal international order as separate problems, but in reality they are closely interlinked.
Sean Morrow - Middle East Institute
COL Sean Morrow is the Director of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. His career in the United States Army has spanned multiple leadership roles in operations, to include the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, the 2007-2008 Surge to Baghdad, and the 2014 Afghan elections. He most recently commanded the United Nations Command Security Battalion in Panmunjom, Korea, where he represented the ...
The Middle East Journal - Middle East Institute
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 …
Brian Katulis - Middle East Institute
2 days ago · His past experience includes work at the National Security Council and the U.S. Departments of State and Defense. Brian Katulis is Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy at the Middle East Institute. He was formerly a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP), where he built the Center’s Middle East program and also worked on ...
Palestinian Refugees: Myth vs Reality | Middle East Institute
On January 14, 2021, outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted about Palestinian refugees, proclaiming “(less than) 200,000 Arabs displaced in 1948 are still alive and most others are not refugees by any rational criteria.” A month earlier, on December 11, a group of 22 Republican members of Congress sent a letter to President Trump requesting that he …
10 key events and trends in the Middle East and North Africa in 2021
Dec 20, 2021 · The year of Assad’s normalization. The catch-22 of civil wars in the Middle East. Iran’s hardliners consolidate their hold on power. The end of the 20-year war in Afghanistan. The lessons of the May war in Gaza. Israel’s new government lowers the temperature of the debate. A year of reckoning in energy markets.
Iran and the Gulf states 40 years after the 1979 revolution
Feb 8, 2019 · Carried out under the banner of defending the mostazafan (oppressed), the Iranian Revolution of 1979 aimed to restructure not only Iran’s society and political system, but also others across the Islamic world.Refusing to align with either the United States or the Soviet Union in the Cold War, the newly established Islamic Republic sought to create a new geopolitical order in the Persian Gulf ...