Middle East Focus

By Middle East Institute

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Weekly discussion of Middle East policy, arts, and culture, featuring experts from the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.

Episode Date
Rethinking Democracy Ep. 2: What is the Rule of Law? With Thomas Carothers and Vali Nasr
Apr 30, 2024
Opposition Upset Victory in Turkey's Local Elections
Apr 04, 2024
Rethinking Democracy, Ep. 1: Why Does Democracy Flourish? With Francis Fukuyama and Paul Salem
Mar 26, 2024
The Evolving Conflict Between Hezbollah and Israel
Mar 11, 2024
Interview with Rashid Al Khalifa - Bahraini artist, collector and founder of RAK Art Foundation
Mar 06, 2024
What’s next for Pakistan after election shock?
Feb 21, 2024
Iran’s 1979 revolution and its resonance today
Feb 13, 2024
Spotlight on US Syria policy
Feb 04, 2024
The Gaza War's Regional Reverberations
Jan 29, 2024
Antisemitism and Islamophobia in the US political discourse on Israel/Palestine
Jan 10, 2024
Themes of COP28
Dec 05, 2023
Turkey at 100
Dec 05, 2023
Iran and the Israel-Hamas War
Nov 15, 2023
Climate Financing
Sep 19, 2023
Prospects for Saudi Arabia-Israel Normalization
Sep 07, 2023
Little Amal Walks Across America
Aug 28, 2023
Ben Samuels | 'Taking the Edge Off the Middle East' Ep. 3
Aug 22, 2023
France’s Foreign Policy towards Lebanon and its Discontents
Jul 21, 2023
Perspectives from the Bonn Climate Change Conference Ahead of COP28
Jul 10, 2023
Itamar Rabinovich on “Middle Eastern Maze”
Jun 21, 2023
Richard A. Clarke | 'Taking the Edge Off the Middle East' Ep. 2
Jun 12, 2023
Art in Dialogue with Nature: An Exploration of Saudi Arabia’s New Valley of the Arts
Jun 07, 2023
David Schenker | 'Taking the Edge Off the Middle East' Ep. 1
Jun 01, 2023
Ending the use of child soldiers
May 17, 2023
Turkey’s Critical Elections
May 09, 2023
Tunisia's new state institutions, legitimacy, and the future of the political transition
May 02, 2023
What Does the US-China Tech Cold War Mean for the Middle East?
Apr 25, 2023
Earth Day: Environmental Opportunities and Challenges in the Middle East
Apr 18, 2023
On Food and Sustainability: A conversation with Moza Al Matrooshi and Christian Sleiman
Apr 11, 2023
Water Resource Challenges in MENA
Mar 30, 2023
Can the Lira be saved?
Mar 10, 2023
The influence of Atmospheric Rivers in MENA
Feb 28, 2023
Russia's Influence in MENA After a Year of War in Ukraine
Feb 24, 2023
MEI's Arts and Culture Center joins DESIGNEAST in Dubai
Feb 21, 2023
Is There a Way Forward for Political Resolution in Yemen?
Feb 13, 2023
Justice, the Beirut Blast, and Lebanon's Continued Crisis
Feb 01, 2023
EU Energy Security & the Maghreb
Jan 24, 2023
MENA Music and More!
Jan 03, 2023
Iran’s Protests 3 Months On
Dec 19, 2022
COP 27: Ask the Experts with Mohammed Mahmoud
Nov 07, 2022
Russia’s War on Ukraine: Iran’s Growing Role and the Nuclear Threat
Nov 01, 2022
The Biden Administration’s National Security Strategy
Oct 25, 2022
Pakistan's Climate, Economic, and Political Crises
Oct 11, 2022
Contending with Reality in Palestine & Israel
Oct 04, 2022
Iran's Growing Protests
Sep 23, 2022
Yemen After Eight Years of Civil War
Sep 13, 2022
Algeria & France: Untangling Past and Present
Sep 02, 2022
Iraq's Deepening Political Crisis
Aug 25, 2022
MENA Photography: More than your eyes can see
Aug 09, 2022
The US strike on al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri
Aug 09, 2022
Biden's Trip to the Middle East
Jul 27, 2022
Cyber Trends in the Middle East
Jul 21, 2022
Tunisia's Economy
Jul 07, 2022
Iraq's Political Shift
Jun 30, 2022
Somalia (Horn of Africa, part 2 of 2)
Jun 10, 2022
Expedition to Antarctica
Jun 02, 2022
Ethiopia (Horn of Africa, part 1 of 2)
May 27, 2022
Pakistan's Political Crisis
May 17, 2022
Energy in the Eastern Mediterranean
May 05, 2022
A Conversation with Dr. Haider al-Abadi
Apr 29, 2022
France's Presidential Election and Foreign Policy
Apr 26, 2022
Youth Climate Activism in MENA
Apr 22, 2022
US-Gulf Relations at the Crossroads
Apr 15, 2022
Israel & Palestine: Hot topics in Congress
Apr 08, 2022
The Parallels of Ukraine and Syria
Apr 01, 2022
The GERD and Cyber Diplomacy
Mar 18, 2022
Ukraine: Tracking Russia's military and cyber campaigns
Mar 04, 2022
Lebanon in Crisis
Mar 04, 2022
Taliban rule of Afghanistan at six months
Feb 25, 2022
Between the Sky and the Earth: Contemporary Art from the UAE
Feb 18, 2022
Sustainable Financing in MENA
Feb 11, 2022
ISIS in Syria and Iraq
Feb 03, 2022
Biden's First Year
Feb 01, 2022
Israel's Digital Occupation
Jan 14, 2022
Year in review: The Middle East in 2021
Dec 17, 2021
The UAE at 50
Dec 07, 2021
America's Global Posturing Review
Dec 03, 2021
Takeaways from COP26
Nov 19, 2021
The Legacy of the Iranian Hostage Crisis
Nov 11, 2021
Afghanistan Under the Taliban
Nov 08, 2021
Converging Lines: the Arab Diaspora in the U.S.
Nov 03, 2021
Saudi-Iran Talks
Oct 29, 2021
Tunisia's political crisis
Oct 22, 2021
Iraq's Elections
Oct 08, 2021
Iran and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Sep 22, 2021
9/11’s legacy for U.S.-Middle East relations
Sep 10, 2021
Morocco's elections
Sep 09, 2021
The state of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Sep 07, 2021
A Case Study in Irregular Warfare
Sep 01, 2021
Al Qaeda and lessons from the past 20 years of counterterrorism
Aug 25, 2021
The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
Aug 17, 2021
First Anniversary of the Abraham Accords
Aug 17, 2021
Ebrahim Raisi and the future of Iran
Aug 06, 2021
Lebanon one year on from the Beirut blast
Jul 29, 2021
What’s next for Afghanistan?
Jul 22, 2021
GERD and Egypt's African Outreach
Jul 19, 2021
Humanitarian aid for Northern Syria
Jun 30, 2021
Pakistan’s foreign policy challenges
Jun 24, 2021
Iran's Upcoming Elections
Jun 11, 2021
Cryptocurrencies in the Middle East
May 25, 2021