Middle East Program

With limited government capacity to drive climate action in the Middle East and insufficient climate financing, greater international support can allow local entrepreneurs to lead the search for innovative and realistic solutions to the region’s mounting climate crisis.

Water insecurity in the Middle East is destroying livelihoods, forcing migration, and fostering instability, with ripple effects on the political, economic, and environmental future of the region.

Libyan authorities are trying to silence independent voices in the run-up to planned elections, but the crackdown undermines the work of civil society more broadly. Lubna Yousef and Will Todman argue that this strategy is self-sabotaging.

The U.S. military should realign its Middle East policy to be in step with the region's multipolar worldview and must recognize countries' concerns over internal threats and interest in strategic partnerships with China and Russia.

The first Earth Day brought together Americans of all walks of life affected by environmental degradation. Fifty-three years later, the Middle East faces a similar need to bring people together on environmental issues, both within the region and globally.

Exorbitant food prices in Egypt have led the government to suggest unlikely, and unpopular, food alternatives.