As large-scale protests continue across Iran, a central question has emerged: why has the country’s ruling system remained intact so far? From the outset of the current unrest, some Iranian ...

What should be done with religious heritage? That is the question Egyptian writer and journalist Ibrahim Essa takes up in his episode this week on Alhurra’s platforms, as he lays out an ongoing ...

Since Ahmed al-Sharaa assumed the presidency in Syria in January 2025, relations between Egypt and Syria have been marked by coolness and caution. Cairo has attentively followed developments in ...

As Iran’s crisis deepens, another question is quietly emerging in Washington: are Tehran’s key partners starting to step back? We asked our great-power competition experts Min Mitchell, who tracks ...

Welcome back to the MBN Agenda, our lookahead at the events driving the news in the Middle East this week.  First up, a must-read on the story that matters most from the region, just up from MBN ...

An American Story of Resilience ...

If I were Khamenei, I would sleep poorly these days. Not because of guilt – tyranny is rarely burdened by scruples – but because fear, once a visitor, quickly becomes an obsessive, clingy ...

Dear Colleagues, Yesterday, we had another productive meeting with our board’s content committee. I’ll share details at our ...

The United States, Israel, and Syria announced in a joint statement issued by the U.S. State Department on Tuesday that Syrian and Israeli representatives had reached an understanding during ...

The arrest of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela was not merely a political turning point in Latin America; it was akin to an “earthquake” whose aftershocks reached Tehran and extended from there to ...

Happy new year, and welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing, a new offering from the premier Arabic-first American news and commentary platform about the Middle East. In my year-end edition of the ...

China Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s recent tour of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan typified his country’s approach to the region: Be boring. Wang spoke of promoting strategic ...