Middle East

The Middle East Program heads CSIS’s work on the region, which analyzes a wide range of political, security, and socioeconomic issues related to the Middle East and North Africa, with special attention to the ways that changes in the Middle East and North Africa have effects beyond the region.

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U.S.-Israeli Military Exercises

Wall Street Journal Middle East Correspondent Dion Nissenbaum joins the podcast to discuss his reporting from aboard the U.S. George H.W. Bush in the Mediterranean Sea while the United States and Israel conducted their largest-ever military exercises, and Israel’s drone strike inside Iran just days later.  

Podcast Episode by H. Andrew Schwartz — February 2, 2023

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Jon B. Alterman

Jon B. Alterman

Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program
Seth G. Jones

Seth G. Jones

Senior Vice President; Harold Brown Chair; and Director, International Security Program

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Babel: Translating the Middle East

A Mezze: Honey, I Froze the Kids

Israel's generous subsidies for in-vitro-fertilization (IVF) have earned it the highest per capita rate of IVF procedures in the world, but that generosity may soon literally overflow with a decades-long buildup of frozen embryos.

Podcast Episode — October 11, 2022

CSIS Babel

What Did Saudi Arabia Just Do?

Dr. Jon Alterman, Ben Cahill, and Dr. Joseph Majkut note key questions arising from the recent decision by OPEC+ to decrease oil production and its impact on the United States’ relationship with Saudi Arabia.

Critical Questions by Jon B. Alterman , Joseph Majkut , and Ben Cahill — October 6, 2022

Photo: VLADIMIR SIMICEK/AFP/Getty Images
Babel: Translating the Middle East

Sami Atallah: Lebanon's Freefall

Jon speaks with Sami Atallah about how Lebanon got into the financial crisis it has been in for the past three years.

Podcast Episode by Jon B. Alterman , Will Todman , and Caleb Harper — October 4, 2022

CSIS Babel

Lebanon's Freefall

Jon Alterman speaks with Sami Atallah about Lebanon's three year old financial crisis.

Transcript — October 4, 2022

Photo: iLab/CSIS

A Conversation with H.E. Hoshyar Zebari

Please join the CSIS Middle East Program for a conversation on the unfolding political situation in Iraq, Erbil-Baghdad relations, and the security situation in Iraqi Kurdistan with H.E. Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq's minister of foreign affairs from 2003 to 2014.

Event by Jon B. Alterman and H.E. Hoshyar Zebari — September 28, 2022

Photo Credits: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images
Babel: Translating the Middle East

A Mezze: Volunteer Trash Collectors

Tunisia’s revolution in 2011 improved many things, but the odors of Tunis was not one of them.

Podcast Episode — September 27, 2022

CSIS Babel
Beyond Aid

Beyond Leadership: Radhya al-Mutawakel

Jake Kurtzer speaks with Radhya al-Mutawakel, who shares her experience founding a human rights organization in Yemen, and how her ambitions were overtaken by Yemen’s civil war.

Podcast Episode by Jacob Kurtzer — September 21, 2022

CSIS Beyond Aid

A Mall Victory

As shopping malls disappear in the United States, new mall developments are thriving in Syria's northwest.

Newsletter by Max Levine — September 21, 2022

Coronavirus Crisis Update

Dr. Anthony Fauci: The Future Outlook for COVID-19

Dr. Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden and Director, the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, addresses the challenges that confront us amid COVID-19, as well as historic achievements that give us hope.

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — September 20, 2022

CSIS Coronavirus Crisis Update
Babel: Translating the Middle East

Marc Owen Jones: Real News, Fake News, and No News

Jon speaks with Marc Owen Jones about government efforts to control the media in the Middle East and the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of social media.

Podcast Episode by Jon B. Alterman , Natasha Hall , and Caleb Harper — September 20, 2022

CSIS Babel