Advancing Stability and Opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa
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Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Another Way for MBS to Consolidate His Power
The autocrat has sole and final control over what many experts consider to be the most important, largest, and dangerous…
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Iran’s Oil State Without Its Architects
The primary threat to Iran’s stability in the medium term may be internal: a slow fragmentation of the elite networks…
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The Double Game of MBS and Saudi’s Secret Alignment with the Axis It Claims to Oppose
How Mohammed bin Salman reconciled with Qatar, accepted Doha’s continued links to Hamas and Iran, deepened Saudi Arabia’s military dependence…
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Iran’s Kurds: teased by opportunity, tethered by memory
The US-Israeli bombing of Iran has led to talk of the country’s Kurds joining the fight against the regime in…
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Iraq’s oil paralysis: A self-inflicted wound and a gift to Tehran
With the Strait of Hormuz closed and oil production from Iraq’s south in free fall, Baghdad’s failure to maximize the…
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The Converging Threats of Climate Change and War in Sudan
Environmental disasters affected hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan in 2025, and will only worsen in the coming years,…
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MBS’s Export of Wahhabism
Colonialism and imperialism have never required an army to be effective. If you take a quick look at history’s most…
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MENA in 2026: Policy Priorities for the Year AheadTIMEP’s nonresident fellows and senior associates explain, in a few words, what should be the policy focus in the MENA region in 2026.
The Middle East and North Africa region faces overlapping challenges in 2026 that will test its countries’ capacities to respond.…
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Debt Clouds over the Middle East
The highly indebted MENA nations find themselves in the path of a debt storm spawned by internal inefficiencies, poor governance,…
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Wrong finance in a broken multilateral system: red flags from COP30-Belém
But the core problem remains untouched: the public finance gap. Without binding commitments that embed predictable finance into the NCQG,…
