Middle East

Voters mostly stayed home for the country's first elections in nearly a decade, and in the end, the same families remained in power.

• By Kenneth R. Rosen

In the West Bank, complications continue to fracture an already maligned health-care system.

• By Kenneth R. Rosen

In Israel, many African asylum-seekers find themselves in a country that refuses to offer them a home.

• By Kenneth R. Rosen

Israelis march in Jerusalem on May 13th, 2018, as they celebrate Jerusalem Day.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Ahead of elections next week in Lebanon, it's looking like corruption as usual.

• By Kenneth R. Rosen

Breaking down the reasons why the country's recent uprising will have longer lasting effects than the demonstrations of 2009.

• By Nader Habibi

An expert on the region makes five predictions about what's in store for the area in the next year.

• By James L. Gelvin

Migrants from across Asia and Africa are crossing oceans to travel perilous routes in Latin America toward the U.S. and Canada.

• By Laura Dixon, Pedro​ ​Noel, ​Andrea​ ​Arzaba, Sally​ ​Hayden, ​Mauro​ ​Pimentel & Selase​ ​Kove-Seyram

Some analysts aren't so certain.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces on December 11th, 2017, near the border fence with Israel, east of Gaza City.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

According to its donation book, Kushner's company charity has given thousands of dollars to fund groups constructing controversial settlements in the West Bank.

• By Justin Elliott

Analysts around the globe caution such a move would put any peace talks between Israel and Palestine at risk.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Heir to the throne, Prince Mohammad bin Salman, risks further destabilizing the Middle East through his bellicose rhetoric, political crackdowns, and military escalation.

• By Elise Knutsen

Displaced Iraqi children from the former embattled city of Mosul attend school at the Hasan Sham camp, east of Erbil in northern Iraq, on November 20th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

This latest attack comes as violence against Christians escalates across the Middle East and Africa.

• By Nick Hagar

Syrian opposition fighters are stopped at a checkpoint manned by regime forces on May 21st, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A Palestinian protester throws stones toward Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on May 15th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

• By Jacqueline Kantor

A new report from the World Bank highlights the devastating economic consequences of civil war.

• By Dwyer Gunn

In her new book, Katherine Zoepf powerfully re-works the narrative on young women in the Arab world.

• By Emily Tamkin

Despite the Arab Spring's secular influence, the Middle East is still one of the most dangerous places on Earth to be an atheist.

• By Hunter Stuart

American foreign policy doesn’t often see beyond friend and foe, but it should.

• By Douglas Ollivant

Saudi Arabia's execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr demonstrates that Riyadh is able to act with growing impunity in the Middle East. It also signals a potentially dangerous shift in American-Saudi relations.

• By Cameron Hood

Five years on, researchers weigh in on how we got from Tunisia and the Arab Spring to where we are now.

• By John Wihbey