Dr. James M. Dorsey is an award-winning journalist and scholar, an Honorary Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at Nanyang Technological ...

The second Trump administration has been pushing to expand the Abraham Accords beyond their initial signatories since coming to power. Progress on bringing in additional Arab states faltered while ...

On October 18, forces from the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS carried out a joint operation with the Syrian government against the Islamic State in the city of al-Dumayr, located in the Damascus ...

At some point, most people will likely have seen or received a school report that reads something along these lines: “Commendable progress but has the potential to do better.” The latest report from ...

As the Trump administration pushes to expand the Abraham Accords in the Middle East and into the Caucasus and Central Asia, it overlooks a dramatic shift in perception across the Arab and Muslim world ...

Amid the intense focus on missiles, escalation dynamics, and geopolitical fallout during the June 13-24 war between Iran and Israel, the cyber dimension — especially as it concerned Iranian actions — ...

Past foreign-led efforts to bring about regime change in the Middle East have all too often unleashed instability, extremism, and enduring strategic risk. A different future with Iran is possible — if ...

MEI scholars joined a virtual experts roundtable to share insights on how countries around the region are responding to the escalating conflict.

One of Trump’s first actions on taking office in January 2025 was to issue an executive order suspending the Afghan resettlement program and leaving those eligible in legal limbo. Approximately ...

With the first week of April now firmly in the rear-view mirror, the first quarter of 2025 can easily be characterized as a period of scene-setting for what looks likely to be a highly volatile year ...

If the outlook was grim on the war’s first anniversary, it is now worse. As it becomes more protracted, the conflict is pushing the country further into fragmented and militarized rule and away from ...