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Working Group on Gulf Foreign Policy: Meeting IV Report

The Water, Energy & Food Nexus: Reframing Gulf Climate & Foreign Policy

Open Call: 2026 Summer Writing Residency

Education, Soft Power & Intellectual Sovereignty in the Gulf

War, Vulnerability & Omnibalancing: Rethinking Gulf Security

Strategic Disengagement & the ‘America First’ Doctrine

Fiker Institute & Dirwaza Curatorial Lab’s Syllabus of Proposed Works

Commentary: Pakistan’s Moment in the Middle

Working Group on Gulf Foreign Policy: Meeting III

Maritime Chokepoints & the Changing Logic of Conflict in the Gulf

Lecture Notes: US-Gulf Relations

Who Needs the Security Council?

Fiker Institute Library’s Online Catalog

Fiker Institute & Dirwaza Curatorial Lab Open Call: Creating in Times of War

Lecture Notes: The Strait of Hormuz & Global Energy Security

Lecture Notes: Europe at the UN Security Council

Lectures Notes: Competing Approaches in Humanitarian Policies

On Asmahan Elfergani: Within the Margins of History

Working Group on Gulf Foreign Policy: Meeting II – Key Takeaways

Gulf Foreign Policy Amid Escalation & Alliances

Shared Threats, Shared Responsibility: Europe & the Gulf

Call for Abstracts: Order(s) in the Middle East

Working Group on Gulf Foreign Policy: Meeting I – Key Takeaways

In the Face of War, the UAE Stands for Continuity

Al-Khaleej Fellows React: The Iran War’s Implications on the Gulf

Resilience & Restraint: The Gulf amid the Iran War

The Iran War: A View from the UAE

Lecture Notes: Navigating Energy Diplomacy & Geopolitics in the Gulf

Ceasefires in Crisis: Geopolitical Implications from Syria & Lebanon

Report: Reforming the UN Charter

WGS & Fiker Institute 2026 Foreign Policy Toolkit

Are Tariffs Becoming the New Sanctions?

Key Questions with Ukrainian Ambassador HE Oleksander Balanutsa

Explainer: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime

Policy Roundtable Report: Reforming Climate Global Goverance

Majid Magazine: Identity & Collective Memory

Nation Branding in the Gulf

Reading the Arab World: Registration

Key Questions with HE Rawan Tawfeeqi

Meet the Greats Guided Reading Session Registration

Re-Evaluating Ceasefires in Armed Conflicts: Cases from Latin America

Gulf Philanthropy & International Development

Quarterly Literary Review: Issue I

Global US Absence & Alternative Power Centers

Lecture Notes: The Gulf as a Diplomatic Broker

On Afaf Zurayk: The Supremacy of Light & Silence

Global Trade Governance

COP30: What to Expect

Prospects for a European Military

The Allure of the Seas in Kuwaiti Cinema & Literature

Reading Edward Said Today: Syria & the Orientalist Rhetoric

A History of Churches in Dubai

Reconstructing Sovereignty: Gaza’s Future Beyond Rubble – A Palestinian-led Vision

Writing War, Writing Life: Examining Arab Women’s Autobiographical Narratives

Undoing the Transatlantic Partnership: Europe vs Trump

Open Call - Al-Khaleej Program

WGS2025 Report in Collaboration with Fiker Institute

The 2025 German Elections

The EU’s New Leadership & the Middle East

Trump 2.0: Cabinet Picks & Foreign Policy Positions

Trump & the Gulf

Africa & Palestine: A Historic Relationship

In Pursuit of National Unity: Anti-sectarian Discourse in 19th Century Syria

Khaleeji Identity in Transition: Modernity & the Comedies of Survival

Roundtable Policy Report: 2024 US Elections & Implications for the Middle East

Rethinking the IMF: Considerations for Economic Reform

On Leila Nseir: Beyond Social & Artistic Conventions

The Non-Aligned Movement: History, Relevance, & Reform

L’École de Tunis: The Arts in Post-Independence Tunisia

Conceptualizing Arab Nationalism: Theorists & The Imagined Nation

Bye Bye London: Theater & Imperialism in the Gulf

On Nadia Saikali: Between Aesthetics, Science, & Spirituality

Lecture: On Decolonizing International Development

On Samia Osseiran Junblat: A Modern Artist in Retrospect

BRICS & the West: What to Expect in the Next Decade

Lecture: On Republican & Democratic Divides in the US Congress

On Helen Khal: The Transformative Power of Art

Lecture: On Imperialism in International Relations

Lecture: On the Bronze Age Of Globalization in the Gulf

On Munira Al Kazi: Fragments of Legacy

Campaign Funding in US Elections

2024 European Parliament Elections

Bint Al Shati’ & the Forgotten Histories of Al-Nahda

Economic De-Development: Regression in the Absence of Agency

The African Union: Realities & Considerations

The Poetics, Life, & Legacy of Fatat Al Arab

Register: Climate Future Week 2023 - Museum of the Future

When Egypt & Syria United

Register: On Building Arab Creative Economies, with Dubai Culture

The Evolution of Arab Print Culture

Evaluating Feminist Foreign Policy Models

Arabness, Al-Watan, & Fairouz

UN Peacekeeping: Current & Future Missions

Immigration in Western Europe: Elite Discourse & Public Attitudes

Climate Justice & Historical Accountability

Advancing Regional Climate Education

The Evolution of BRICS

Colonial Legacies

Rupture & Continuity: Tracing Identity Across Arabic Literature

Rethinking Water Security in Arab States

The Global Governance of Ecosystems

Museums and Colonial Representations of South Asia

Register: On the Great Global Merchants with Joseph Sassoon

The Politics of Ocean Governance

The Rise of the Far-Right in Europe

The Electoral College

Al-Nahda & the Emergence of Arab Feminist Thought

Humanitarian Intervention

World Literature: The Politics of Translation

Reforming the International Court of Justice

Strategic Philanthropy in the Arab World

Colonial Narratives: From Orientalism to Western Interventions

Gender Inequality & Climate Change

Why Dubai Built a Museum for the Future

How Women Shaped Kuwait's Literary Scene

Strategic Autonomy and the European Green Deal

Decolonizing Arabic Literature

Building the First Digital Museum Dedicated to Khaleeji Art

The Global Gender Pay Gap

UAE-South Korea Cultural Cooperation: From Hallyu to Artistic Exchanges

Climate Refugees and International Law — Fiker Institute

On Building Sharjah with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi

Metaverse Diplomacy

U.S.-Mexico Border Crisis

Register: On the Fight for Climate After COVID-19 with Alice Hill

Climate Change in the Arab World

Veto Power at the United Nations — Fiker Institute

Gun Violence in the United States

Register: On Globalization and the War of Words with Harold James

The Rising Political Power of Silicon Valley

Register: On Isolationism in U.S. Foreign Policy with Charles A. Kupchan

Smart Diplomacy: Insights from Emirati-Greek Relations

Shared Goals, Divergent Approaches: The EU Ahead of COP27 and COP28

Polarization in American Politics: Why Is There No Third Party In the United States?

Why Italy Built a Cultural Institute in Abu Dhabi

Creating Spaces for West African Art in the UAE: Exhibitions, Institutions, and Individuals

Regional Book Launch: Surviving a World in Flux with Tom Fletcher

When East Meets East: A History of Exhibiting UAE-Based Artists in Japan, 2012-2022

How Sharjah's Museums Are Driving Cross-Cultural Dialogue

Post-Pandemic Diplomacy: Is the future remote?

Reflections from the United Arab Emirates' First Humanitarian Operation in Europe by Dr. Obaid Al Ketbi

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