The MENA Initiative - Insights on Middle East Policy

NDN's MENA Initiative was created to help build a domestic constituency for a more robust and strategic US economic engagement strategy with the Middle East and North Africa. We do this through high-profile and high-impact events that bring diplomats, foreign officials, leading academics, and members of the NGO and private sector community face to face with policymakers. We also advance this agenda by making and winning these arguments in the media and in the public sphere. Stay abreast of all this work at www.menaprogram.org

Recent Work

Brad Bosserman live-blogged last week's foreign policy debate for the website PolicyMic and his post-debate analysis is available on the NDN site.

We collected some of the best analysis from around the web tackling the recent protests throughout the Middle East.

The Jerusalem Review of Near East Affairs published an article by MENA Initiative Director Brad Bosserman that discusses the strategy behind a Marshall Plan for the Middle East.

What We're Reading

 

Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists. The Washington Post. October 23, 2012

Obama Tried to Restore Ties With Iran in 2009, Report Says. Al-Monitor. October 28, 2012

UN envoy 'terribly sorry' about Syrian ceasefire's failure. The Hill. October 29, 2012