Viewpoints

Migration and the Gulf

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

Turkey and Israel: What Lies Behind the Recent Volte Face

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

Economic Peace in the West Bank and the Fayyad Plan: Are They Working?

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

Beyond Iraq's National Elections: Planning a New Phase in American Policy

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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