The major in Middle East studies provides students with the opportunity to deeply explore this region’s historical, political, social and cultural complexity. Broadly conceived, this geographical ...

Suzanne Maloney is the vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, where her research focuses on Iran and Persian Gulf energy. At Brookings, she is a ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement was a secret treaty Britain and France signed more than a century ago. Many consider it to have seeded a legacy of strife in the Middle East. By Mark Landler Reporting from ...