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 ...

In recent news from Saudi Arabia: religious police filmed berating a fully veiled woman for not wearing gloves; a cleric’s fatwa against women watching football to prevent them from staring at men’s ...

The meetings surrounding the United Nations General Assembly last week showcased both vigorous diplomacy and the growing role in regional and global issues of a number of Middle Eastern leaders.

What Egyptians call the azmit al-iskan—the housing crisis—is exemplified by the 1986 movie, Karakon fi-l-Shari‘a, or Prison in the Street. The film depicts a typical middle class family that, evicted ...

The day before Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack on southern Israel, the Houthi militia’s publication, al-Maseera, ran a piece entitled “Peace with the Jews is in confronting them, not shaking their ...

Qatar bid to host the 2022 World Cup to cement its status as a global player, but the event will likely be remembered mostly for the many controversies that have surrounded it. Qatar’s experience ...

Despite critical differences between the two political regimes that have dominated Iran for nearly a century, there are striking similarities between the Pahlavi monarchy (1925-1979) and the Islamic ...

Last month, there was an online frenzy as approximately 2.5 million Iranians flocked to the Instagram account of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). They were drawn to the page because Adel ...

While the Biden administration hoped that the war in Gaza might begin to wind down by early 2024, major military operations are set to continue for many months, the Israel-Lebanon front is on the ...

Before World War I, America appeared a distant but vibrant and benign entity far removed from the conflicts and imperial contests of the old world. Through the late 19th and early 20th century, it was ...

This piece is part of a four-part series published by the Middle East Institute in cooperation with Arab Barometer analyzing the results of the seventh wave of the Arab Barometer surveys. Real GDP in ...