Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing, a new offering from the premier Arabic-first American news and commentary platform about the Middle East. It’s day 19 of the protests that began with ...
Dear Colleagues, Predictions of the Iranian regime’s collapse go back decades. In one instance, an Egyptian scholar argued ...
Death to the dictator … death to Khamenei” were among the chants heard in the broad streets of Mashhad, in northeastern Iran, during the popular protests that have swept the country in recent ...
In Yemen, Saudi Arabia appears to have gained the upper hand in its confrontation with allies of the United Arab Emirates, bolstering the position of the internationally recognized government in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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