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Middle East PolicyCast
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Democratic Backsliding with Chiraz Arbi, Yasir Zaidan, Alberto Fernandez, and Sarah Feuer
Few countries from the Middle East or North Africa were invited to participate in the Biden administration's December Summit for Democracy, a telling...
Russia in the Middle East with Anna Borshchevskaya, Lester Grau, and Michael McFaul
Marking the release of Anna Borshchevskaya's groundbreaking new book on Russia's Putin-era Middle East Policy, the Institute senior fellow held a live...
Counterterrorism Twenty Years after 9/11
Twenty years after the deadly terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, how has the global terrorist threat, and American strategy against it, evolved?...
Afghanistan Fallout with Anna Borshchevskaya, Bilal Wahab, and Kathryn Wheelbarger
How will America’s choice to withdraw military forces from Afghanistan, and the manner of our withdrawal over the course of the last two presidential...
A Holistic Policy for the Red Sea Region with Elana Delozier
To promote stability and other U.S. interests, Washington must reshape its approach to the increasingly complex staging ground for global competition...
Military & Political Assessment of the Gaza Conflict with Grant Rumley & Neri Zilber
Two experts on security and political issues in the Middle East, Grant Rumley and Neri Zilber, share insights into the causes and outcomes of the May...
U.S.-Saudi Relations in the Biden Administration with Robert Satloff
How can the Biden administration build a mature, balanced relationship with Saudi Arabia? Institute executive director Robert Satloff, coauthor of a n...
The Biden Administration and Iran with Dennis Ross
In a new paper from Amb. Dennis Ross, he argues that Iran, its nuclear program, and its threats to regional security will pose some of the toughest ch...
New Israeli-Arab Peacemaking with Amb. Barbara Leaf, Dana Stroul & Neri Zilber
Israel has a couple of new friends in the Persian Gulf. On September 16, representatives from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom of Bah...
Mapping Hezbollah with Matthew Levitt
Lebanese Hezbollah has been well-known to Americans as a deadly terrorist group for nearly forty years, but there has never been an accessible, all-in...
West Bank Annexation with David Makovsky, Ghaith al-Omari, Dana Stroul, and Dennis Ross
What factors will shape Israel's decisionmaking, and how would unilateral annexation affect its relations with the Palestinians, Arab neighbors, Europ...
Deterring Iran in the 'Gray Zone' with Michael Eisenstadt
Military analyst Michael Eisenstadt details how the Islamic Republic of Iran operates in the gray zone between war and peace to manage escalation, lev...
Tunisia's Missionaries of Jihad with Aaron Zelin
In the last decade, Tunisia has been seen as both a democratic bright spot of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings and a major source of manpower for the Is...
Hussein and Abdullah with Robert Satloff
For two decades, rumors have swirled around the royal succession from Jordan’s King Hussein to his son, King Abdullah II. Hussein reinstated Abdullah...
The UN's Assessment of ISIS & al-Qaeda with Edmund Fitton-Brown
The head of the UN team charged with monitoring each group assesses their prospects for bouncing back and recommends further steps that governments ca...
The Trump Administration's Peace Plan
Listen to an exclusive press briefing on the Trump administration's newly announced peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Four expert, incl...
Saudi Religious Reform with Sarah Feuer
Since 2016, statements from Riyadh have suggested that Saudi Arabia might be on the verge of reorienting its decades-long promotion of Salafism around...
FBI Counterterrorism with Matthew Alcoke
The FBI’s top intelligence official shares his insights into how authorities and agencies are collaborating to keep the United States safe amid a shif...
Decision Points Episode 1 with Michael Oren
"Decision Points" is a new Washington Institute podcast that provides fresh insights into critical moments in the U.S.-Israel relationship from promin...
Trailer: Decision Points: The U.S.-Israel Relationship
"Decision Points" is a new Washington Institute podcast that provides fresh insights into critical moments in the U.S.-Israel relationship from promin...
Israeli Elections with David Makovsky
What is going on in Israeli politics? Two elections this year, both leaving no clear majority and a deadlocked parliament, a prime minister facing imm...
Erdogan's Empire with Soner Cagaptay
"Turkey more isolated, more alone, and more exposed to foreign policy threats than it has been for decades if not centuries." Soner Cagaptay, author o...
Israeli Leadership with David Makovsky and Dennis Ross
What sets Israel's greatest leaders, Labour and Likud, apart from others? And can U.S. policy encourage wiser statesmanship from our Israeli allies? I...
Iran's Disinformation against Religious Minorities
What are the consequences of the Iranian government's massive, systematic campaign to spread disinformation about religious minorities through social...
Israeli Security Today with Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, IDF (ret.)
Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkote, IDF (ret.) delivered the 2019 Zeev Schiff Memorial Lecture on Middle East Security earlier this month. In his first public re...
The Trump Administration's Approach to Middle East Peacemaking with Jared Kushner
Jared Kushner, the senior advisor to President Donald Trump, was the keynote speaker of the Washington Institute's 2019 Soref Symposium dinner on May...
Israeli Elections 2019
A notably divisive Israeli campaign is coming down to its final hours. Will Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu survive the election, a likely c...
Red Sea Trade and Security with Elana DeLozier
The Arab states of the Persian Gulf region perceive that U.S. interest in and commitment to their region is declining even as Russian and Chinese mili...
Israeli Elections with David Makovsky
Israel's April 2019 parliamentary elections feature two of the most significant developments in modern Israeli political history, says Institute schol...
Arab-Israeli Reclamation with Joseph Braude and Tamara Cofman Wittes
American Middle East policy has focused on forging security and economic ties between Israel and its Arab neighbors. In a new report (http://www.washi...
Iran's Quest for Nuclear-Ready Missiles with Farzin Nadimi
Iran's latest missile tests point to a new generation of rocket, one potentially capable of delivering a first-generation nuclear warhead, and defeati...
Middle East Policy on Capitol Hill with Dana Stroul
Dana Stroul, The Washington Institute's newest research fellow, is a veteran Pentagon and U.S. Senate foreign policy staffer. In this podcast, Dana sh...
Iran's Terror Sponsorship with Ambassador Nathan Sales
"Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Period. It has held that dubious distinction for many years now and shows no sign of relinqui...
Reimposing Iran Sanctions with Katherine Bauer
Since the Trump administration's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA), November 4 has loomed large as the date on which significant U.S. sanc...
Counterterrorism Partnerships with Levitt, Tankel, Bacon, and Mendelsohn
Do the counterterrorism partnerships that Washington has developed with Middle Eastern states since the 9/11 attacks helped or hindered the global war...
The U.S.-Turkish Crisis with Amanda Sloat, Max Hoffman, and Steven A. Cook
In early August, the Trump administration issued sanctions against Turkey for its continued detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson. Ties between...
Appreciating Bernard Lewis
When he passed away in May, Bernard Lewis—the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton and inaugural recipient of The Washing...
Taking Stock of U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11 with LTG Michael K. Nagata
U.S. Army Lieutenant General Michael Nagata, director of strategic planning at the National Counterterrorism Center, delivered a hard-hitting address...
Representing the U.S. in the Gulf
Barbara Leaf served as U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates from 2014-2018 and recently joined The Washington Institute as Rosenblatt Distingui...
Turkey's 2018 Elections with Soner Cagaptay
On June 24, Turks voted for president and parliament for the first time under their new constitution, handing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his A...