“Turkey is going through a difficult and quite significant change,” said Henri Barkey, a public policy expert, former U.S. government official and director of the middle east program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in D.C. to over 150 students, faculty and members of the public on the evening of December 13 in

The United Arab Emirates: Power, Politics, and Policymaking (Routledge, December 2016) by Affiliate Professor Kristian Coates Ulrichsen charts the various processes of state formation and political and economic development that have enabled the UAE to emerge as a significant regional power and major player in the post Arab Spring reordering of Middle East and North African Politics, as

Jackson School of International Studies Director and Middle East expert Reşat Kasaba gives context to the rise of the women’s Muslim fashion industry in “Muslim fashion steps into the spotlight.”

Beth Do, a student in the Master’s in Applied International Studies program at the Jackson School, writes about a recent public event hosted by The Middle East Center. Can we make humanitarian safe areas work in Syria and elsewhere? This was the question presented to panelists discussing “Humanitarian Options in Syria” on November 21 in Room

The Middle East Center’s Bridging Cultures Project was featured at the June 6, 2016 “White House Roundtable on Discrimination, Bullying, and Harassment of Muslim, Arab, Sikh, and South Asian Students.” The roundtable discussion, chaired by Secretary of Education John King, was attended by key policymakers and stakeholders including Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor and Assistant to

All presentations are in Thomson Hall, Room 317, 12:30–1:20 p.m. University of Washington-Seattle Free and open to the public Monday, October 31, 2016 Satellite Imagery and Ground Truthing: The Current State of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Looting in the Middle East STEPHANIE SELOVER, Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization and Adjunct Professor

Professor Muna AbuDalo, Director, Queen Rania Al-Abdullah Center for Environmental Science and Technology, Jordan University of Science and Technology, visited the UW campus as part of an initiative sponsored by the Middle East Center and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) to develop and strengthen research collaborations and provided opportunities for intellectual exchanges

Senior Lecturer Rick Lorenz served twenty-seven years in the Marines before joining the faculty of the Middle East Center where, for the last decade, he has been teaching very popular courses on water and security in the Middle East and international law focused on the Middle East. This past summer, Lorenz was invited back by

Faculty affiliated with the Middle East Center are in high demand for their Middle East expertise and are frequently engaged in teaching beyond the University of Washington. This summer Affiliate Professor Kristian Coates Ulrichsen led training sessions for the US Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute (FSI). In the interview below Professor Coates Ulrichsen talks