Carnegie Middle East

12/05/2026

Why Does the Middle East Suffer “Forever Wars”?

Because perpetual conflict enhances control, offers economic benefits, and allows leaders to ignore popular preferences.

Angie Omar writes.

Because perpetual conflict enhances control, offers economic benefits, and allows leaders to ignore popular preferences.

11/05/2026

Climate Mobility in the MENA Region: Between Adaptation and Displacement

As climate pressures intensify across the Middle East and North Africa, human mobility is increasingly shaped by overlapping forces such as environmental degradation, economic crisis, governance failures, and conflict. Movement is rarely driven by climate alone, making it difficult to understand who moves, who stays, and why, especially as many affected communities remain underrepresented in policy and research.

Watch the panel discussion with Yasmine Zarhloule, Armenak Tokmajyan, Ilyssa Yahmi, Courtney Freer, Zeinab Shuker, and Camille Ammoun.

The project explores how climate change is reshaping mobility, governance, and resilience across seven Middle East and North African countries.

09/05/2026

Climate Pressures in Algeria: The Crisis in Rural Kabylie

Understanding how farmers in the Oued Sahel-Soummam Valley grapple with climate change is essential for addressing the paradoxes through which adaptation, operating at both individual and institutional levels, deepens the region’s vulnerability and erodes the social fabric and agrarian identity that once defined life.

Ilyssa Yahmi discusses in a new article.

Understanding how farmers in the Oued Sahel-Soummam Valley grapple with climate change is essential for addressing the paradoxes through which adaptation, operating at both individual and institutional levels, deepens the region’s vulnerability and erodes the social fabric and agrarian identity th...

08/05/2026

The community already suffers social discrimination, so addressing inequalities requires sustained interventions.

Musaed Aklan and Mohammad Al-Saidi write.

The community already suffers social discrimination, so addressing inequalities requires sustained interventions.

08/05/2026

In Basra, an ethnoracial minority wages a constant struggle to assert itself in the face of marginalization.

Zeinab Shuker writes.

In Basra, an ethnoracial minority wages a constant struggle to assert itself in the face of marginalization.

08/05/2026

إن التخفيف من حدّة تداعيات تغيّر المناخ في الكويت أمرٌ ضروري لتقليص أوجه التفاوت الاقتصادي والعمل على تحقيق العدالة الاجتماعية.

كورتني فرير تناقش.

إن التخفيف من حدّة تداعيات تغيّر المناخ في الكويت أمرٌ ضروري لتقليص أوجه التفاوت الاقتصادي والعمل على تحقيق العدالة الاجتماعية.

07/05/2026

Lebanon is pursuing delicate negotiations with Israel in Washington, against a backdrop of Israel’s continued occupation of southern Lebanon and systematic destruction of border towns and villages. However, within the country divisions remain over such a policy, with Hezbollah and the allied Amal Movement strongly opposed to direct negotiations. This is having repercussions on the already delicate domestic Lebanese situation. The United States, in turn, particularly President Donald Trump, is focused on securing a diplomatic victory by mediating between Lebanon and Israel, in the hope that this will lead to a permanent peace agreement. However, in the broader region, certain Arab states, Turkey, and Iran are unhappy with peace negotiations, each for reasons of its own, adding to the obstacles Beirut is likely to face.

How will the Lebanese state maneuver under such circumstances? To address these issues, the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center will host a panel discussion on May 7, at 4:00 PM Beirut Time/ 9:00 AM EDT. The panel will consist of Maha Yahya, director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, Paul Salem, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI), and Khaldoun al-Sharif, senior political advisor at the Geneva-based Center for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD). The event will be in English and moderated by Michael Young, senior editor at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center and editor of Diwan.

Viewers are invited to submit questions via the live chat feature on Facebook and YouTube.
For more information, please contact Najwa Yassine at [email protected].

03/05/2026

Climate Mobility in the MENA Region: Between Adaptation and Displacement

Join the panel discussion with Yasmine Zarhloule, Armenak Tokmajyan, Ilyssa Yahmi, Courtney Freer, Camille Ammoun, and Zeinab Shuker,

🗓️May 11
🕞4:00-5:15 PM Beirut
📺Tune in live:

The project explores how climate change is reshaping mobility, governance, and resilience across eight Middle East and North African countries.

03/05/2026

من الشروط المُسبقة لأيّ محادثات جديّة أن تسعى قيادة البلاد إلى حشد دعم وطني واسع لمثل هذا المسار.

مايكل يونغ يناقش.

من الشروط المُسبقة لأيّ محادثات جديّة أن تسعى قيادة البلاد إلى حشد دعم وطني واسع لمثل هذا المسار.

01/05/2026

يناقش جيم لامسون، في مقابلة معه، الصراع الإقليمي المتواصل، ويرى صورة غير واضحة عن الفائزين والخاسرين فيه.

01/05/2026

Smuggling and Civil Peace on Lebanon’s Border: The Case of Summaqiyyeh

The Lebanese authorities’ clampdown on illicit cross-border activity threatens to leave inhabitants of the historically neglected village, and the wider Akkar region, in an economically precarious position.

Mohanad Hage Ali discusses in a new article.

The Lebanese authorities’ clampdown on illicit cross-border activity threatens to leave inhabitants of the historically neglected village, and the wider Akkar region, in an economically precarious position.