A discussion of how relevant political players in Arab countries among regimes, opposition movements, and external actors have adapted ten years after the onset of the Arab Spring.

Join us on Thursday, June 23 from 16:00 till 17:30 Beirut time for a panel discussion on the topic with Akeel Abbas, Marsin Al Shamary, Mohanad Hage Ali, Harith Hassan and Zeinab Shuker.

Paul Haenle will moderate a discussion with Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Singaporean scholars on the key issues in China-Middle East relations and the geopolitical implications.

Join Aaron David Miller as he sits down with Thomas Nides, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, to discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict, the future of the Iran nuclear deal, and the U.S.-Israel relationship.

Five months after he seized power, Kais Saied has given no signs he plans to return the country to its democratic path.

By dismissing the parliament and removing his political rivals from power, Tunisian President Kais Saied has set Tunisia on a path that is likely to end in further instability and potential bloodshed.

U.S. President Joe Biden says he wants “equal measures of freedom, prosperity, and democracy” for Gaza. What steps can he take to achieve that in practice?

The longer this goes on, the greater the pressure will be on the Biden administration to act. Rising humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, electricity, water, rising Palestinian casualties.

The international community is calling for deescalation in Israel and Gaza. The World's Marco Werman speaks with former State Department Middle East adviser Aaron David Miller about where the Biden administration currently stands on the matter.

In 2012, as the conflict in Syria continued to smolder, President Barack Obama made clear that any use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime would constitute a “red line” for U.S. engagement. A decade later, the tangle of "heroes and villains” involved in that unprecedented effort is clearer.

Ten years after its protests sparked the Arab Spring, Tunisia remains the lone country in the Middle East to have effectively changed its system of governance. Yet many Tunisians have mixed feelings about how much progress their country has made.

By pushing economic liberalization in the Middle East without requiring transparency and fighting corruption, international donors have allowed the region’s elites to hog power and resources. The result is a combustible mix of anger and disillusionment.