Attiya Ahmad is Georgetown University’s 2009-10 Center for International and Regional Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow. She recently completed her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Dr. Ahmad’s work brings together scholarship on Islamic studies, globalization, diaspora and migration studies, economic anthropology, and political economy.
The Latest from Attiya Ahmad
Erdogan and Putin, the End of an Unlikely Partnership
The Collapse of ISIS in Syria
ISIS appears to have collapsed in Syria in the wake of the SDF’s military defeat and subsequent integration, followed by the withdrawal of US troops. To the extent that the US prioritizes the group’s enduring defeat in the country, a relationship centered in Damascus is the best way to achieve it.
MEI Art Gallery – June First Friday Open House
In Conversation with Zahi Hawass
Can the Latest US Plan Bridge Libya’s Divide?
The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor
The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is a proposed multinational infrastructure initiative aimed at upgrading connectivity between the three regions through integrated trade, energy, and digital networks. Announced at the G20 summit in New Delhi in September 2023, IMEC is envisioned partially as a counterweight to China’s international infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative.
Domino Effect: The Iran War’s Impact on Global Trade
Assessing the Irregular Warfare Aspects of the Iran War
Why Iran’s Militant Kurds Stayed out of the US-Iran War
In March, there was talk of armed Kurdish fighters opening a second front in Iran’s northwest, but it never happened — for several very good reasons.
LIVE at MEI: Voices from the Arab Diaspora
Trump’s Missions Unaccomplished on Foreign Policy
Three months after the Iran war began, the United States and Iran are engaged in talks aimed at ending the crisis, even as both sides conducted limited military strikes against each other this week and a separate-but-linked conflict between Israel and Hizballah in Lebanon continued to escalate.
