John Calvert, Professor of History at Creighton University, examines the evolution, agenda and trajectory of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood within the framework of a changing Egypt.

Richard Bulliet, Professor of History at Columbia University, examines the relationship between religion and the state in the “Muslim South”—that half of the Muslim world located south of Medina, whose peoples came to Islam centuries after those of the “Muslim North”—and how understanding the different means of legitimating governance in the Muslim South sheds light on the crisis of legitimacy in Muslim-majority states like Egypt today.

Edited transcripts of a panel discussion and interview with Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), on the issue of Holocaust denial in the Arab-Islamic world.

Abdullah Al-Arian, Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar, writes about the state of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt following the 2013 military coup d’état that ended Mohamed Morsi's presidency.

Randall Kuhn, former Associate Professor at the Korbel School and Director of its Global Health Affairs Program, addresses the important issue of why the Arab uprisings of 2011-2012 erupted when they did by focusing on the “retreat from marriage” in the Gulf states and how it complicates the simplistic notions advanced to explain the uprisings.

William Hartung explores the early relationship between the Trump administration and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and what it means for the region more broadly.

Todd Green, Associate Professor of Religion at Luther College, critiques the common trope that Islam as a religion is in need of a reformation primarily through the writings of the controversial author and polemicist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

In April 2018, Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi delivered the keynote speech at the annual conference of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) in Washington, DC, where he received the Muslim Democrat of the Year Award. Following his murder in the fall of 2018, CMES published an edited transcript of his speech in honor of his courage and willingness to speak truth to power.

Elizabeth Tsurkov, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, offers a close analysis of internal Israeli debates as it relates to the war in Syria and documents the specifics of Israeli intervention in Syria from 2011 to 2019.

CMES Director Nader Hashemi takes a dissenting view of the Abraham Accords, the agreement in the summer of 2020 between Israel and two Arab states (Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates).