This report assesses the future sustainability of agriculture across North Africa using a multidimensional approach that considers the dynamics of water, climate, land, and economics. To enable this ...

Since 1967, West Bank settlements have been a contested feature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The term refers to Israeli residential communities established in the territory on the west bank of ...

Defense and Security, US Policy in the Middle East, Syria However, conditions fundamentally changed when the collapse of Assad’s regime in December 2024 opened up the rest of Syria to potential US ...

IMEC is designed to create a resilient supply chain network connecting South Asia (namely India), the Middle East, and Europe. It aims to transport goods, energy, and data, bypassing the Bab al-Mandab ...

When Iranian drone strikes hit two of Amazon’s data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in early March, amid the ongoing US-Israeli war with Iran, much of the media’s reflex was to declare ...

Yemen’s long-time president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was forced to step down in 2012 in the wake of the Arab Spring protests that swept the region beginning in 2011. After several years of fighting during ...

On May 1, the United Arab Emirates ended almost 60 years as a core member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and a decade as a key player in the broader OPEC+ grouping, ...

Ezra Mannix is Communications & Outreach Manager at the Middle East Institute (MEI). Ezra has specialized in communications for mission-driven organizations for approximately 10 years. He has ...

Iftekharul Bashar is an Associate Research Fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang ...

Libya’s stability has taken on renewed strategic importance as the impact of the United States and Israel’s war with Iran reverberates through global energy markets, pushing Brent crude prices to a ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to delay strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure to allow space for indirect talks initially eased market fears. Yet Tehran has firmly denied that any negotiations ...

The US Commerce Department announced on November 19, 2025, that it had authorized the export of advanced American semiconductor chips to HUMAIN of Saudi Arabia and G42 of the United Arab Emirates. The ...