Closing Syria’s Border to Aid
Millions of Syrians depend on international aid that comes through a single border crossing—aid that depends on an agreement with Russia. Every year, ...
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Syrians Are Going Hungry
Syria faces an unprecedented food security crisis. Almost 60 percent of the country is now food-insecure, and more than a million Syrians cannot survi...
Iran and Saudi Start to Talk
Regional powers Iran and Saudi Arabia have a hand in nearly every hot spot around the Middle East. The two rivals don’t control what happens, but they...
Thaw Between Turkey and Egypt
Tensions between Egypt and Turkey have run high for nearly a decade. Turkey has hosted Egyptian dissidents and opposition parties since the Egyptian...
Yemen’s Wars at a Turning Point
Soon after taking office, President Biden announced that the United States would stop contributing offensive weapons to the war in Yemen. “This war ha...
Rethinking American Assumptions about the Middle East
On this episode of Order from Ashes, we talk with Dahlia Dassa Kaye, the lead author of a new RAND Corporation study that advocates a major overhaul o...
Egypt’s Revolution at 10
Ten years ago, the uprising in Tahrir Square toppled Egypt’s dictator and raised hopes for political reform across the Middle East. Great setbacks fol...
War Comes Homes
Critics of hyper-militarized foreign policy argue that the abuses of America’s war on terror led in a direct line to the January 6 attempt to overturn...
America’s Attempted Coup
The challenge to American democracy has called into question some of the country’s deepest assumptions about exceptionalism. Fellows at The Century Fo...
Nature and National Security in the Middle East
A fearsome array of climate and environmental woes is straining the Middle East, worsening the existing crisis of poor governance and weak states in t...