This summer, brutally hot temperatures, deepening water scarcity, and spiking fertilizer costs have put North Africa’s agricultural sector under intense pressure. Host Alistair Taylor is joined by ...

A year and a half into Donald Trump’s second administration, the Middle East is far from where the president had hoped or expected it would be. The Iran war looms large over the region and the global ...

IMEC is designed to create a resilient supply chain network connecting South Asia (namely India), the Middle East, and Europe. It aims to transport goods, energy, and data, bypassing the Bab al-Mandab ...

Yemen’s long-time president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was forced to step down in 2012 in the wake of the Arab Spring protests that swept the region beginning in 2011. After several years of fighting during ...

Jonathan “Jonny” Gannon retired during the summer of 2025 as a senior executive at CIA. Originally an operative, he has over 26 years of experience navigating national security challenges and building ...

When ExxonMobil recently advised President Donald Trump that Venezuela remains “uninvestable,” the company was not making a political judgment. It was offering a commercial one. Despite some of the ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Siamak Namazi is a former senior strategy executive who is now a keynote speaker and advises leaders on ...

The last few weeks in Iran have retaught us lessons we already knew — lessons written in blood, courage, denial, and cruelty. We were reminded that the clerical regime’s ineptitude in governing is ...

The final days of 2025 marked a turning point in the Middle East, as competition between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Yemen spilled out into the open. Tensions between the two ...

This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests. Naser Alsayed is a doctoral researcher at SOAS University of London, specializing in natural resource ...

The iron grip of Pakistan’s military establishment upon the nation’s political system endures as the most potent force shaping its governance. The elevation of Gen. Asim Munir to the rank of field ...

The strategic alliance between Pakistan and China, driven largely by opportunism and geostrategic interests, seems unshakable. However, the extent of its mutual benefit remains under scrutiny, ...