Issues/Middle East Politics

Middle East Politics

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Giving Peace No Chance
- Sarah Yerkes
- October 15, 2018
In cutting funding to people-to-people programs for Palestinians, Washington is doing much harm.
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When Do You Anticipate That a Government Will be Formed in Lebanon?
- Michael Young
- October 11, 2018
- - عربي
A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
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There Will be Blood
- Jake Walles
- October 10, 2018
- - عربي
Israel’s military chief of staff warns that West Bank violence may increase, and he may well be right.
Arab Political Economy: Pathways for Equitable Growth
- Joseph Bahout, Perry Cammack
- October 09, 2018
Constructing a new order in the Arab world requires states to begin confronting the patronage system and crony networks that distort economic outcomes and suppress job creation. The economic challenge is thus not merely technical, but profoundly political as well.
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The Vanishing
- Michael Young
- October 09, 2018
- - عربي
In an interview, Adam Coogle of Human Rights Watch discusses the recent disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Born Under a Bad Sign
- Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck
- October 08, 2018
- - عربي
Many children of jihadis in Algeria are being denied an identity, education, and much more.
Lebanon Struggling To Form Government
- Joseph Bahout
- October 05, 2018
- Institut Montaigne
- - Français
The political landscape in the region, which is directly reflected in Lebanon, is now on the verge of being redesigned.
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The Meaning of Manbij
- Hadeel Al-Saidawi
- October 05, 2018
- - عربي
Once the Idlib standoff ends, Syria’s regime and its allies will turn eastwards where another complex situation prevails.
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Is Anyone Actually Winning the War in Yemen?
- Michael Young
- October 04, 2018
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A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
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Growing Pains
- Wael Gamal
- October 03, 2018
- - عربي
Egypt’s economy may be improving, but this is neither inclusive nor sustainable.

İsmet Akça
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Center
İsmet Akça is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his work focuses on the Turkish military’s economy and civil-military relations in Turkey.
Loulouwa Al Rachid
Co-Director
Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States
Carnegie Middle East Center
Loulouwa Al Rachid is a co-director of the Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States at the Carnegie Middle East Center.
Hadeel Al-Saidawi
Visiting Scholar
Middle East Center
Al-Saidawi is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where her research focuses on Syria.
Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck
Resident Scholar
Middle East Center
Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck is a Resident Scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where her work examines political and extremist violence, radicalization, Islamism, and jihadism with an emphasis on Algeria.
Harith Hasan
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Carnegie Middle East Center
Harith Hasan is a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on Iraq, sectarianism, identity politics, religious actors, and state-society relations.
Kheder Khaddour
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Center
Kheder Khaddour is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. His research centers on civil military relations and local identities in the Levant, with a focus on Syria.
Raphaël Lefèvre
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Center
Raphaël Lefèvre is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on Sunni Islamist movements in Lebanon.
Hamza Meddeb
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Center
Meddeb is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on economic reform as well as the political economy of conflicts and border insecurity across the Middle East and North Africa.
Aram Nerguizian
Co-Director
Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States
Carnegie Middle East Center
Aram Nerguizian is the co-director of the Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his work focuses on the Lebanese security sector, long-term force transformation in the Levant, and efforts to develop national security institutions in post-conflict and divided societies.
Yezid Sayigh
Senior Fellow
Middle East Center
Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where he leads the program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States (CMRAS). His work focuses on the comparative political and economic roles of Arab armed forces and nonstate actors, the impact of war on states and societies, and the politics of post-conflict reconstruction and security sector transformation in Arab transitions, and authoritarian resurgence.
Maha Yahya
Director
Middle East Center
Yahya is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, where her research focuses on citizenship, pluralism, and social justice in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings.