| Content type | Title | Authored on | Link to Content | Experts | Featured Image | Body |
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| Blog post | Will Trump’s red line on West Bank annexation hold? | September 29, 2025 | /blog/will-trumps-red-line-west-bank-annexation-hold | Brian Katulis | /sites/default/files/2025-09/Trump%20at%20UNGA%20via%20GettyImages-2236943037_0.jpg | |
| Podcast | A Middle East NATO? Regional Security Options After Doha | September 25, 2025 | /multimedia/podcast/middle-east-nato-regional-security-options-after-doha | No author given | /sites/default/files/default_images/MEF_v1_wide%404x.png |
Israel’s September 9 strike on Hamas leaders in Doha rattled Gulf capitals and revived a decades-old debate over whether the region needs a NATO-style defensive alliance. |
| Podcast | War and Peace in the Middle East: A View from Qatar | September 25, 2025 | /multimedia/podcast/war-and-peace-middle-east-view-qatar | No author given | /sites/default/files/2025-09/Illustration%20Cover%20Art_0_1.png |
In this special bonus episode of Taking the Edge Off the Middle East, host Brian Katulis sits down with Dr. Majed Al-Ansari, adviser to the Prime Minister of Qatar and spokesman for Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr. |
| Publication | Strategic drift in US Middle East policy as Trump speaks on the world stage | September 24, 2025 | /publications/strategic-drift-us-middle-east-policy-trump-speaks-world-stage | Brian Katulis | /sites/default/files/2025-09/Trump%20at%20UNGA%20via%20GettyImages-2236943037.png |
President Donald Trump used his speech this week before the United Nations General Assembly to reinforce his unique style of US foreign policy-making and levy criticisms against others, including the UN itself. But Trump did little to create a framework for crafting solutions to address problems and thorny security challenges. |
| Podcast | Can Lebanese Democracy Be Saved? | September 23, 2025 | /multimedia/podcast/can-lebanese-democracy-be-saved | No author given | /sites/default/files/2025-09/Rethinking%20Democracy%20Widescreen_0.png |
Once hailed as a rare democracy in the Middle East, Lebanon has now slipped into the ranks of closed autocracies. |
| Podcast | Unconventional Wisdom: The Search for America’s Soul | September 23, 2025 | /multimedia/podcast/unconventional-wisdom-search-americas-soul | No author given | /sites/default/files/2025-09/Illustration%20Cover%20Art_0_0.png |
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and longtime Democratic National Security and Communications strategist Doug Wilson joins Brian for an expansive conversation about what’s at stake in US foreign policy at a time of global u |
| Publication | A moveable feast of MENA pop art at the MEI Gallery | September 23, 2025 | /publications/moveable-feast-mena-pop-art-mei-gallery | Hadani Ditmars | /sites/default/files/2025-09/Middle%20East%20Institute%20Art%20Gallery%20Opening%20-%20Jason%20Dixson%20Photography%20-%20250910%20-%20202825%20-__1.jpg |
A new exhibition at the Middle East Institute Art Gallery called Arab Pop Art: Between East and West offers a timely reminder that in spite of the conflict and turmoil in the region, there is a lively, vibrant, and cosmopolitan culture at play throughout the Middle East and North Africa. |
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| Event | Can Turkey and Israel Find Common Ground in Syria? | September 25, 2025 | /events/can-turkey-and-israel-find-common-ground-syria |
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| Event | Palestinian Politics, Publics and Paths forward Post October 7 | October 1, 2025 | /events/palestinian-politics-publics-and-paths-forward-post-october-7 |