Affiliate Professor and Gulf States expert Kristian Coates Ulrichsen analyzes the recent developments in Saudi Arabia. His article titled What the Hell Just Happened in Saudi Arabia? discusses the removal of Prince Miteb bin

Jackson School Director and Stanley D. Golub Chair in International Studies Reşat Kasaba was interviewed by Gulan-Media to discuss the regional implications of the referendum in Kurdistan. Iraqi Kurds participated in the

The Middle East Center (MEC) has published profiles of the 2017-18 MEC FLAS fellows. Read about them on the MEC website through the link below. FLAS Fellows FLAS Fellowships are

Jackson School Director and Professor Reşat Kasaba discusses President Trump’s threat to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, and possible implications, in a KOMO news radio interview.

The UW Daily reports on Professor Joel Migdal’s Middle East lecture on October 9, the second in the Jackson School Trump in the World series. He emphasized how the different regional conflicts affect each

This is the second in a two-part series about songs which UW Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) fellows have learned in their various locations around the world this summer. 

Jackson School Alumna Jwanah Qudsi (B.A. ’14) publishes a first-person piece documenting her return to war-torn Syria and the visit to her home town of Aleppo. Qudsi, who grew up in Aleppo,

In “As an American Jew, I Celebrated Israel’s 1967 Victory. Now I’m Protesting the Occupation” Middle East expert and Prof. Joel Migdal shares how he changed his view on the outcome

Following the rupturing of diplomatic relations between Qatar and five regional states, Gulf states expert and affiliate faculty Kristian Coates Ulrichsen provides a close look at the contentious history of Qatar in his article “Qatar: The