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 ...

Maya El Khalil is an independent curator, based in Oxford, UK, who has worked extensively in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf with artists, collectors, and institutions to develop the identity and ideas that ...

Amer Bisat, PhD, is the Global Head of Emerging Markets at BlackRock and a member of the firm’s Global Fixed Income Executive Committee. In this capacity, he leads a team managing approximately $40 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Waleed is Mubadala Investment Company’s Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer and has strategic oversight of the company’s broad investment portfolio and special projects at the group level. Waleed is ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...