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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
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Seth G. Jones

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

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Creating a New Energy Strategy for a Post Ukraine War World

The Emeritus Chair in Strategy has prepared a detailed analysis of the new levels of interaction that the U.S. and its strategic partners must address between national security planning and national energy planning.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Paul Cormarie — August 22, 2022

Photo: Katja Buchholz/Getty Images
Babel: Translating the Middle East

A Mezze: Egypt's Killer Cuisine

Egypt doesn't have the most famous Middle Eastern cuisine, but few would call it deadly. That may be changing.

Podcast Episode — August 16, 2022

CSIS Babel

Reflections on the Fall of Kabul One Year Later

CSIS visiting fellow Fawzia Koofi shares her reflections on the fall of Kabul one year ago, and her experience as one of only four women who participated in the Doha negotiations with the Taliban in 2020.

Commentary by Fawzia Koofi — August 15, 2022

Photo: Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen/U.S. Air Forces Europe-Africa/Getty Images
The Truth of the Matter

Terrorism Threat Not Over

CSIS’s Seth Jones joins the podcast to discuss the death of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and the future of the terrorist organization. Plus, an update on the situation in Ukraine.

Podcast Episode by H. Andrew Schwartz and Seth G. Jones — August 10, 2022

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Babel: Translating the Middle East

Accountability in Syria

Jon speaks with Ambassador Beth van Schaack about the prospects for accountability in Syria and the role of criminal justice and accountability in U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

Podcast Episode by Jon B. Alterman and Natasha Hall — August 9, 2022

CSIS Babel
Babel: Translating the Middle East

A Mezze: Taking the Heat

More and more people in the Middle East are accusing their governments of lying about the weather—falsely reporting lower temperatures to skirt UN regulations that prevent workers from laboring in searing conditions. Government weather reports may be off by a few degrees, but the critics are off by a mile.

Podcast Episode — August 2, 2022

CSIS Babel
Babel: Translating the Middle East

Henry Rome: Nuclear Negotiations with Iran

Jon speaks with Henry Rome about U.S. negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program and where it might go from here.

Podcast Episode by Jon B. Alterman , Natasha Hall , and Caleb Harper — July 26, 2022

CSIS Babel

The Middle East Transition We Need to Talk About

Dr. Jon B. Alterman calls attention to a transition in the Middle East that receives little attention, and how the United States can help regional states approach the looming changes to the benefit of U.S. strategic interests.

Commentary by Jon B. Alterman — July 21, 2022

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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 overflow.

Newsletter by Caleb Harper and Kobe Spells — July 21, 2022

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