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Read MEI's weekly briefing featuring expert analysis of key regional developments for the week ahead.

Read MEI's weekly briefing featuring expert analysis of key regional developments for the week ahead.

On May 15, Lebanon goes to the polls for its first parliamentary elections since the 2019 protest movement, the financial and socio-economic collapse, and the Beirut port explosion. Join the Middle East Institute for a two-part webinar series before and after this long-awaited political milestone.

Read MEI's weekly briefing featuring expert analysis of key regional developments for the week ahead.

Read MEI's weekly briefing featuring expert analysis of key regional developments for the week ahead.

Read MEI's weekly briefing featuring expert analysis of key regional developments for the week ahead.

Expert regional analysis by MEI scholars and contributors.

Expert regional analysis by MEI scholars and contributors.

The danger and opportunity of the moment Lebanons post-Taif political establishment and overall system of governance have consistently imposed on the Lebanese people a tradeoff between justice and civil peace. When the civil war ended, a general amnesty law in 1991 shielded the country’s warlords from prosecution and paved the way for sectarian power-sharing in times of peace. Anything but war, people thought. When the Hariri tribunal issued a tempered and yet clearly incriminating verdict in...

Randa Slim Senior Fellow and Director of Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program Since March 2021, Iran-backed Iraqi militias have mounted at least 10 explosive-laden drone attacks on U.S. and coalition sites in Iraq. U.S.-led coalition officials in Iraq have described the rapidly evolving drone threat as the mission’s biggest concern. Last month, CENTCOM commander Marine Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie told journalists the U.S. was looking to develop better defenses against the drones. E...