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Eran Etzion Non-Resident Scholar Israel and Iran have been engaged in a shadow war for some two decades, with varying degrees of escalation. 2021 brought with it a strategic shift in Washington, with the new administration’s clear and absolute strategy to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and avoid a nuclear crisis in the Middle East. Israel, dominated by Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard line on Iran for the last 12 years, views this with a much-troubled eye. Knowing full well that the...

Christopher Bass Christopher Bass is research assistant with MEI’s Cyber Program and a junior at Georgetown Universitys School of Foreign Service. He is studying International Politics with a concentration in Foreign Policy and Policy Processes, and is also pursuing a minor in Persian and a certificate in Diplomatic Studies from the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. Chris also interns with Gulf State Analytics, where he produces analysis pieces covering emerging threats in the region and...

Much like former Somali dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, who carried out a process of Marehenization of decision-making, key government ministries, and the military, Farmajo has stacked key ministries, military positions, and diplomatic missions with his own people to retain his hold on power. He is betting on his clan militia, Turkish-trained forces, and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) to cling to power beyond his term. The majority of the military units in Mogadishu are from the Haw...

Non-Resident Scholar Mohammed Soliman is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute’s Cyber Program and a Senior Associate at McLarty Associates’ Middle East and North Africa Practice. His work focuses on the intersection of technology, geopolitics, and business in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Mohammed frequently appears on Arabic- and English-language television to provide commentary on unfolding events in the Middle East. A native of Cairo, Mohammed started his career...

Where Zoom Webinar Although the cyber domain is an emerging field of conflict, it is no longer a new frontier – many battles in cyberspace have been fought and it is imperative they be understood to begin imagining how the future of warfare online may look.   As the United States, the Middle East, and policy community globally begin to consider how a Biden administration will approach conflict and cyber conflict in the region, this panel is an opportunity to study the history of...

And recently they have stolen korean war plans, they have all types of unit we have ransomed for money and they recently, we detected attacks on the us cyber program and then you have the nightmare scenario. all of us remember that grew up in the cold war that the movie wargames with matthew broderick. the ability to get inside our system and what if this was a strategic command or norad or the nuclear triad that has some type of false alarm. all of those things jump out at me. and then as a res...