Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.
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.
Climate change in the Middle East will amplify preexisting vulnerabilities stemming from conflict, displacement, marginalization, and corruption, while also creating new risks. Governments in the region will need to adopt more inclusive reforms as part of their climate adaptation strategies.
Lebanon's food crisis—the result of an unequal system that deprives local farmers of agency and neglects the environment—calls for the country to seek a new path toward food justice.
Can Washington wrangle a deal?
Arab public opinion is shifting on the topic of great power competition in the Middle East, with implications for the future of the region.
As one of the most-affected countries in North Africa, Morocco has moved to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change, but many difficulties lie ahead.
While a negotiated political solution between Israelis and Palestinians is not on the horizon, policymakers must work to ensure that civic spaces in the region and in the United States are free and open so that people with a range of interests can be heard.
Today the darkened chambers of Ametsegna Washa are still strewn with the detritus of the siege and the bodily remains of the lives it extinguished—a grim memorial that unequivocally refutes the apologists’ polemics.
Researchers in Morocco are studying ways to use solar and wind energy for a faster transition to a green economy. This documentary tells the story of Morocco's quest to produce clean, renewable energy.