President Donald Trump wants a deal with Iran. Russia has offered to mediate. But an agreement negotiated by Moscow would ...

It is no surprise that both Iran and the United States have approached their first diplomatic engagement in four years with ...

The following article is one of a two-part series of essays assessing the relative benefits and risks of inviting Russia into ongoing US-Iranian talks. The companion piece offering a contrasting view ...

For months, Turkey’s government has been trying to accomplish three major tasks simultaneously or nearly so to solidify its ...

Assoc. Prof. Murat Somer and Prof. Dr. Kemal Kirişci discussed a recent AKP initiative known as the Kurdish Opening which aims to solve the Kurdish issue in Turkey. These two scholars provided an ...

The biggest development this past week in the Middle East policy of Trump’s second administration was the initiation of talks ...

The Middle East Institute’s (MEI) Arts and Culture Center invites you to join an in-person panel conversation on the role of the arts in Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement and the impact it ...

The MENA Energy Recap is a quarterly review of key energy developments that took place in the Middle East and North Africa ...