Midan

The Most Severe Threat Facing MENA

By Nabil Fahmy
March 5, 2020 / Winter 2020

New Players Challenge America’s Cultural Dominance

By Sydney Wise
February 19, 2020

The United States has been the world’s cultural giant since the twentieth century—but is its supremacy and soft power being challenged by Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop?

Egyptian Workers in Jordan Hopeful Despite Syrian Influx

By Audrey Lodes
February 3, 2020

Recent studies examine what effect Syrian refugee workers will have on the migrant labor market in Jordan

Slideshow: Reclaiming Cairo’s Rooftops

By Audrey Lodes
December 16, 2019

How local initiatives are making Cairo’s rooftops green

The Country to City Continuum

By Audrey Lodes
December 6, 2019

Government leaders and public policy experts attended the Regional Workshop on Strengthening Migration Governance Across the Rural Urban Continuum.

The Empire He Did Not Want

By Ross Kimm
November 19, 2019

Erdoğan wanted to build a “neo-Ottoman” empire but missed out on what is strategically most important—real influence in the Middle East

Avoiding an Ominous Arms Race

By Nabil Fahmy
November 14, 2019 / Fall 2019

Begin by holding negotiations for a WMD-free zone to which Israel, Iran, and all Arab states are party

The Cost of Clean Water

By Zander Pellegrino
October 24, 2019 / Fall 2019

How one village was hit by the demands of sustainable development.

Welcome to the Second Industrial Revolution!

By Erin Hayes
September 8, 2019 / Summer 2019

How maker spaces are booming in Egypt and counties in sub-Saharan Africa

Sister of the Rebels

By Marley Dizney Swanson
August 12, 2019 / Summer 2019

Meet the sister of the rebels.

Opportunity of the Century?

By Nabil Fahmy
August 7, 2019 / Summer 2019

Jared Kushner’s economic stimulus initiative to solve the Palestinian issue was introduced in the 80s and ended in failure.

Untold Futures

By Amina Fahmy and Madeleine Hall
June 24, 2019

The American University in Cairo launched a massive research initiative that would ask Arab scholars and thinkers over the next three years to find answers to a crucial question: what does the future hold for the Middle East?

Arab Spring Revisited

By Nabil Fahmy
May 27, 2019 / Spring 2019

From Algeria to Sudan, the time for good governance is now

The AI Guru

By Alexandra Hall
May 27, 2019 / Spring 2019

How Affectiva CEO and cofounder Rana el Kaliouby harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to create social change

The Desert, a Resource Curse

By Leslie Cohen
May 27, 2019 / Spring 2019

Could land be Egypt’s Dutch Disease?

The World To Be

By Alejandra Padin and Amina Fahmy
April 28, 2019

World experts discuss future global developments such as the rise of Asia, the impact of demographic changes in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, and the role of the Global South in the world.

Rethinking the Two States

By Jessie Steinhauer
March 28, 2019 / Spring 2019

For scholar and diplomat Daniel Levy, this much is clear: until Israel loses its sense of impunity, the peace process goes nowhere

Witnesses of Peace

By Claire Davenport, and Tess Santorelli
February 24, 2019 / Winter 2019

How did the insiders and diplomats who witnessed the Camp David proceedings experience those events?

Pompeo’s “Real New Beginning”?

By Sean David Hobbs, and Nadeen Shaker
January 13, 2019 / Winter 2019

In a speech which may have policy implications for the Trump Administration’s Middle East policy, the United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lays out plans for the region at the American University in Cairo.