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| March 2010 issue of MEI Bulletin postedLatest issue of the MEI Bulletin discusses the Arab-Israeli peace process. read more ... |
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Upcoming Events
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| 3/10/2010 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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| 3/16/2010 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM |
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Carol Prunhuber
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| 3/18/2010 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
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| 3/25/2010 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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| 4/1/2010 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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Jerry Sorkin
President of TunisUSA
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The latest MEI Podcasts
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Drone Attacks on the Quetta Shura? Pros and Cons
Speakers: Selig S. Harrison, Ahmar Mustikhan, Andrew Eiva, Raja Karthikeya, Ashraf Kakar, Marvin Weinbaum
March 5, 2010
Inside the Taliban
Speakers: Alex Strick van Linschoten, Felix Kuehn
March 3, 2010
Pakistan's Counterinsurgency Strategies:What's Working and What's Not
Speaker: Haider Mullick
February 24, 2010
Writing on Culture: The Missing Factor in Discussions on the Middle East
Speaker: Andrea Rugh
February 23, 2010
The Khamenei-Ahmadinejad Regime and the Challenge of the Iranian Opposition
Speakers: Ali Alfoneh, Alex Vatanka
February 3, 2010
Russian-Iranian Relations in the Obama Era
Speaker: Dr. Mark N. Katz
January 28, 2010
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Viewpoints

The flow of ideas, people, and commerce across national boundaries has been occurring with breathtaking rapidity in the broader Middle East, as elsewhere. These increasingly dense exchanges have generated new threats and vulnerabilities that have tended to impact women, children, and the poorest members of society disproportionately. At the same time, however, they have given people more resources and opportunities with which to shape their lives and their futures.
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Policy Insights

By Gonul Tol
It seems that the Turkish-Israeli love affair of the initial post-Cold War days is over and a new era in bilateral relations has begun. The volte face in Turkey’s policy vis-à-vis Israel has been attributed to a range of issues....Only scant attention has been paid to the changing geopolitical and structural factors which have driven Turkish policy in the Middle East – and toward Israel in particular.
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Policy Briefs

Adam Robert Green
This Policy Brief asks whether the muted Palestinian economic revival can be deepened and sustained in the absence of a peace agreement with Israel or a unified Palestinian leadership.
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MEI Commentaries

Charles W. Dunne
Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary elections may prove another vital step in the country’s transition to a stable democracy. Progress toward a less-sectarian Iraqi politics has been evident since the 2009 provincial elections.
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Encounters

Trajectories of Change in Omani Poetry
by Mara Revkin
Driving down a thoroughfare studded with beauty parlors and cell phone stores, it’s hard to believe that less than 40 years ago...
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