Maheen Safian is the Senior Events Coordinator at the Middle East Institute. She aids in the coordination and execution of all MEI programming and events alongside the Senior Director of ...

Eryn Gold is a Research Assistant with the Middle East Institute’s Policy Center. Before joining MEI, she interned as a threat intelligence analyst with Hozint – Horizon Intelligence, where she ...

Ali Afshari is an Iranian political analyst and pro-democracy activist. He is a former student leader and member of the Central Committee of the Office for Consolidation of Unity, which was the main ...

Afghanistan Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said that the Taliban were committed to the 1973 water treaty between Afghanistan and Iran. But he added that “the drought in Afghanistan and the ...

“a significant infrastructure and connectivity project to enhance broader transcontinental integration between Asia, the Arabian Gulf, and Europe, or what I call the Eurasian rimland. It seeks to ...

The Middle East Institute (MEI) is a private, non-profit, nonpartisan institution working to increase knowledge of the Middle East among citizens of the United States and to promote a better ...

"Any expectation that the Taliban's leadership can dictate their fighters' division from Al Qaeda dismisses cultural and practical realities," said Douglas London, who served for more than 30 years in ...

“The Chinese are adept at using economic power to build influence…[and] the Americans don’t have that same capacity anymore,” said Robert S. Ford, former U.S. ambassador to Syria and senior fellow at ...

“Any supply disruption to Spain will be felt as higher prices for consumers on European supermarket shelves approximately four months from now,” said Michaël Tanchum, an expert on food security and a ...

At the heart of the unrest are fears that President Macky Sall will run for a third term. The constitution limits presidents to two five-year terms. But Sall argues that a constitutional reform ...

Washington, D.C. - The Middle East Institute (MEI) hosted former commanders of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), high-profile industry leaders, and former senior government officials on Thursday, ...

“There’s clearly a lot of anger about both the immediate response,” Howard Eissenstat, a nonresident scholar at the Middle East Institute, a Washington D.C., think tank, said. He added that Erdogan’s ...