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Commentary
Enemies—and Partners—Will Get a Vote in the Middle East
January 11, 2021 | Jon B. Alterman The United States might feel it is done with the Middle East, but the reverse isn’t true.

Critical Questions
GCC Rift over Qatar Comes to an End
January 5, 2021 | Jon B. Alterman Dr. Jon B. Alterman explores pressing questions about the ending of the Arab Gulf crisis and implications of reconciliation.

Commentary
Enemies—and Partners—Will Get a Vote in the Middle East
December 17, 2020 | Jon B. Alterman Dr. Jon Alterman discusses how foreign powers might react to a U.S. rebalance away from the Middle East.

Newsletter
Help Wanted
December 17, 2020 Getting housecleaning help in Kuwait has become expensive, and also exploitative. After new residency restrictions forced many foreign workers to leave the country, critics claim that the Kuwaiti domestic labor market has become a virtual “slave trade.”

Report
The Importance of Marginalized Communities in Lebanon
December 14, 2020 | Natasha Hall CSIS’s Natasha Hall discusses the compounding crises impacting all Lebanese, but particularly its most vulnerable, marginalized communities. Hall explains why policymakers should take note and provides recommendations to improve conditions in the near term.

Commentary
Designating the Houthis as Terrorists Would Be a Mistake
November 30, 2020 | Jon B. Alterman CSIS’s Jon Alterman discusses the Trump administration’s possible designation of the Houthis as terrorists and the potential impact of such a move on U.S. and Iranian interests.

Newsletter
Middle East Notes and Comment: Covid-19 Hasn't Crushed the Middle East ... Yet
November 18, 2020 The Middle East is being hit hard by Covid-19 but, up to now, its regimes have not.

Newsletter
Influence Peddlers
November 18, 2020 Some children want to grow up to be astronauts or firemen, and others want to be doctors. But in the Middle East, like in the rest of the world, some actually grow up to be social media “influencers.”

Commentary
Covid Hasn’t Crushed the Middle East . . . Yet
November 18, 2020 | Jon B. Alterman Dr. Jon B. Alterman discusses the heavy impact of Covid-19 across the MENA region and the threat of the second wave.

Commentary
Pivoting to Asia Doesn’t Get You Out of the Middle East
October 19, 2020 | Jon B. Alterman Dr. Jon Alterman explores the causes and implications of a potential U.S. realignment away from the Middle East and toward the Pacific.

Newsletter
Middle East Notes and Comment: Pivoting to Asia Doesn't Get You Out of the Middle East
October 19, 2020 Of all of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy ideas, the one that may enjoy the broadest public consensus is that the United States has been overcommitted to the Middle East.

Newsletter
A Hard Pill to Swallow
October 19, 2020 | McKinley Knoop Last May, a trio of bustling nurses surrounded a Covid-19 patient in Bahrain.

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