The program defines the Gulf as the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen. See the Middle East Program's publications and past events on the Gulf HERE ...

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges ...

Iran’s intelligence network is not a monolithic entity but a web of competing and cooperating factions that execute the ...

As a result, the Arabs have lost their solid political presence and cultural reach in that periphery for the foreseeable future. The Arab world now seems detached from East Africa, again at a time ...

This scheme’s masterminds are the same people who, during the Iran-Iraq War, cleared mines by ... through the Arabian Peninsula, to Africa’s shores. In this sense, Iran’s ploy is a version ...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest sovereign state in the Middle East and makes up the majority of the Arabian Peninsula ... Kuwait, and Iraq while surrounded to its east by Qatar and ...

On the evening of Thursday 30 January 2025, the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Unit at the Arab Center for Research and ...

Saudi Arabia is the giant of the Middle East, with both the vast majority of land and wealth of the Arabian Peninsula falling within its borders. Millions of devout Muslims from around the world ...