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Reflections and Interventions: State and Religion in the Arab World

Posted on October 25, 2012

Last week, MEI Director Michael C. Hudson attended a conference in Tunisia on state and religion in the Arab world. Organized by the Center for Arab Unity Studies of Lebanon, the meeting brought together Arab intellectuals, heads of state, and Middle East specialists from around the world. Coming at a time of great regional transformation, [...]

Letter from Abu Dhabi: Are the Gulf States Immune to Regional Changes?

Posted on October 8, 2012

By Michael C. Hudson
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In this Insight, MEI Director Michael C. Hudson reports on his recent visit to the United Arab Emirates, where he met with with officials, policymakers, and scholars.

Anyone lucky enough to be dining in a world-class restaurant in Burj al-Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, or browsing [...]

Obama vs. Romney on the Middle East

Posted on September 18, 2012

By Michael C. Hudson and Rana B. Khoury

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If you have been following the presidential campaigns lately, you would be excused for missing the candidates’ ideas about foreign policy. America is still conducting the longest war in its history, is witnessing a shift in global power eastward, is apparently [...]

MEI in the Media: Check Out our Clips

Posted on August 30, 2012

A number of researchers at MEI have made appearances on Channel News Asia over the past months to discuss pressing issues in the Middle East. Please click the links below to watch the segments.

Egyptian Elections
May 23, 2012
With MEI Director Professor Michael C. Hudson
Israel – Iran
February 20, 2012
With MEI Director Michael C. Hudson and MEI [...]

Leadership Deficit on Both Sides Prolongs the Unfinished Uprisings

Posted on May 11, 2012

By Michael C. Hudson
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As the Arab uprisings unfold it is increasingly clear that they are taking different forms in different countries. In three cases—Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya—dictators were deposed definitively and relatively quickly. But in three others—Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria—the struggle continues between an incumbent regime and popular opposition. (In [...]

MEI at the MESA Annual Meeting

Posted on December 12, 2011

The 2011 annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in Washington, D.C. was the organization’s largest to date, with over 2,300 participants and 130 panels. MEI was pleased to be a part of it, and we made our presence known through our members’ participation on panels, our publications booth, and—not least of all—the [...]

MEI Heads to Washington for MESA Conference

Posted on November 29, 2011

Several members of MEI are traveling this week to Washington, D.C. to attend the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) annual conference. Professor Peter Sluglett, Visiting Research Professor at the Institute, has recently been named President of MESA and will serve as a discussant on two panels: Rethinking Communism and Anti-Colonial Struggles in the Middle East [...]

Groundhog Day in Palestine/Israel

Posted on November 17, 2011

By Michael C. Hudson
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For an unforgettable “Groundhog Day” experience, there is nothing better than a trip to Palestine and Israel.  We’ve experienced multiple revolutions over the past six decades in information technologies, social mores, political upheavals.  The Soviet empire collapsed, democracy advanced around the globe, Asia began to rise, the West [...]

The Arab Spring in the Korean Autumn

Posted on November 8, 2011

Notes from the ASAN Institute for Policy Studies Middle East Conference, Seoul, South Korea, 6 November 2011
By Michael C. Hudson
Outside the futuristic building housing Seoul’s Asan Institute for Policy Studies this past weekend it was a glorious sunny fall day, the trees beginning to shed their golden leaves; but inside, where a conference had been convened to [...]