Original policy research, strategic analysis, and institutional commentary — bridging Washington and the Middle East on the files that matter.
Washington produces more analysis on the Middle East than any city on earth. The question worth asking is not how much analysis exists — but from where it is being produced, and for whom.
The forces that will determine the shape of the Middle East in 2035 are not primarily military. They are economic. Washington is still reading the wrong map.
The distance between how Washington reads the Middle East and how the Middle East reads itself is considerably harder to measure — and considerably more consequential.