Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
While the Turkish president will continue to renew relations with countries across the Middle East, the possibility of a Türkiye-Syria rapprochement may depend on Iran’s involvement.
Arab public opinion is shifting on the topic of great power competition in the Middle East, with implications for the future of the region.
This will likely be Erdogan’s last term, as his electoral alliance is not large enough to hold a constitutional referendum to extend presidential term limits.
This article discusses Hamas’s motives for avoiding involvement in the recent military confrontation between Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Israel in the Gaza Strip.
Household labor has become popular content in a region where the distribution of such tasks is among the world’s most inequitable.
While the current refugee-hostile climate is fueled by an economic crisis, devaluation of the local currency, institutional collapse, and presidential deadlock, the security response to Syrian refugees is anything but new.
Riyadh’s biggest takeaways from the China-brokered deal with Iran are decreased military tensions and political independence from Washington.
While the devastating earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey in February 2023 caused entire cities to shut down, it also accelerated Syria’s reintegration into the Arab world.
The earthquakes were an unquestionable crisis and horrific tragedy, yet Türkiye’s recent border emergency is only the latest in a long line of similar emergencies, which have dramatically reconfigured sociopolitical space.
Israeli practices in the West Bank have threatened Palestinian schools, but students are determined to learn.
Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank is imperiling the viability of a two-state solution and destroying any chance for peace in the Middle East.
The upcoming Turkish presidential election will have serious but uncertain consequences for the security and humanitarian situation in northwestern Syria.
Unexpectedly, Hezbollah, which has a long history of rejecting all direct negotiations with Israel, declared the recent demarcation agreement a historic victory for the Lebanese state.
Iraq-based Iranian Kurdish insurgents are becoming the epicenter of a coordinated Iran-led campaign to force the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to toe its security policy.
Recent diplomatic efforts have culminated in a deal between the antagonistic neighbors, but political dynamics in Lebanon raise questions about the agreement’s sustainability.
In attempting to shift the focus from “women’s issues” in Sada’s new podcast, we were reminded that these issues should be defined by women themselves.
After a two-year hiatus, the Arab League will convene in Algiers in November against a backdrop of uncertainty and discord.
Recent Hamas leadership appointments reflect the movement’s eagerness to deepen its connections with Iran and Hezbollah.
The Syrian regime is exploiting the chaos of the ongoing war to build a flourishing drug empire.
A Saudi-Emirati-Israeli military alliance is unlikely and runs counter to the Gulf states’ security interests and diplomatic efforts with Iran.