MEI Perspectives

2023 Summer Transfer Window – A False Dawn Saudi Arabia grabbed headlines across the globe when it launched…
The anti-Israel, anti-American “Axis of Resistance” frequently mentioned by the Islamic Republic of Iran is referred to by…
Abstract The offensive that led to the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s Syria regime was not spontaneous, but rather…
By Aisha Al-Sarihi (Research Fellow, MEI); Ehsan Rasoulinezhad (Associate Professor, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran); Jinseok…
The Middle East Institute asked experts from around the world for their views on the impacts of the…
By Clemens Chay, Research Fellow, MEI-NUS   As Israeli tanks rolled into Rafah under the pretext of conducting “targeted…
By Ahmed Aboudouh*   Since the 7 October attacks by Hamas in Israel, and the subsequent war, China…
By Gadi Yishayahu*   The poignant images capturing children, mothers, and elderly women returning home from Hamas captivity…
By Clemens Chay, Research Fellow, MEI-NUS   In the world of football, the Gulf region is emerging as a…
*By Nickolay E Mladenov   For much of the 20th century, international diplomacy was primarily moulded by a…