Middle East Institute

The United States and Saudi Arabia: A Possible Path Forward

Turkey After Erdogan

Strategy for a New Comprehensive U.S. Policy on Iran

Russia Created a Refugee Crisis, and Now Putin Is Weaponizing It

With Russia causing two migration crises—one by bloodshed in the east and the other by famine in the south—the United States must act now.

Missing the Mark

Reassessing U.S. Military Aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces

Bottom-Up Hope: Local Governments Bolster Religious Pluralism in Turkey

When powerful states and their proxies intensify religious persecution worldwide and democratic governments under a neo-isolationist spell look the other way, where can vulnerable religious minorities find...

Collusion or Collision?

Turkey-Russia Relations Under Erdogan and Putin

Spectacles of Tolerance: The Precarity of Turkey’s Religious Minorities in the Era of Neo-Ottoman Delusions

Excerpt Turkey watchers continue to debate whether neo-Ottomanism, an ideological proclivity to exalt and revive an imagined Ottoman past and its traditions of religio-political authority and domination,...

An Oberlin Professor Is Under Fire for His Past

Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Iran's former ambassador to the U.N., has been accused of trying to cover up a 1988 massacre of political prisoners.

Biden’s policy shift in Yemen courts environmental disaster

Excerpt A major disaster is unfolding in slow motion, with the international community seemingly incapable of taking any action other than public hand wringing. A crippled oil tanker, FSO Safer, has been...

Learning the Correct Lessons From Iraq

Taliban falsely claims al Qaeda doesn’t exist in Afghanistan

General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., the commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), questioned the Taliban’s willingness to take action against al Qaeda during an online conference held last week. The...

Up for Debate: U.S.-Iran policy

So far, US policy seems to be working, albeit unevenly.

Evolving Menace

Iran’s Use of Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare

Profiles of Iranian Repression

Architects of Human Rights Abuse in the Islamic Republic

The U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s Key Slush Fund and Its Brutal Custodian

At first, he couldn’t identify the sound. But Amir Atiabi, an inmate in Iran’s Gohardasht Prison, was curious. Over the course of several nights in 1988, he ...