Last June’s Israel-Iran conflict became a revealing stress test for Beijing’s Middle East strategy, its role in global diplomacy, and the coherence of what some have described as an emergent “Axis of ...

When the Israel-Iran war broke out and the United States decided to assist the Israeli side by striking Iran's nuclear ...

US President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the third time in his second term this week, ...

Domestic politics has taken center stage in the United States as Congress struggles to pass President Donald Trump’s proposed ...

Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in ...

The May 6 cease-fire between the United States and the Houthi militia in Yemen has had a consolidating effect on the balance ...

On June 19, false reports of an Israeli strike on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant sparked alarm across the Gulf. Though denied ...

Egypt and Saudi Arabia share many foreign policy and regional security objectives and have a long and complicated ...

The Middle East Institute (MEI) is honored to welcome Dr. Barham A. Salih, former President of the Republic of Iraq, as its ...

Ebrahim Raisi, the eighth president of Iran, has taken over at a time when the Islamic Republic is facing a series of major potential crises. Over the next several decades, these crises could have ...

There is a new and little noticed geostrategic alliance on the rise. India, Israel, and the UAE have had surface-level, transactional relations for a long time. However, last year’s normalization ...

Temporary marriages and sex tourism in Iran Sex tourism and sex trafficking in Iran are increasing. One contributing cause is the practice of sigheh. Sigheh (also known by its Arabic name “nikah ...