Topics

ARI's work is organized around the issues that matter most to people across the MENA region. Browse our topics to explore research, analysis, expert voices, and events on the questions shaping political, economic, and social life from Morocco to the Gulf.

Topics cut across our programs and projects; they are the thematic lenses through which ARI's broader body of work can be explored. Select a topic to browse all related publications, events, experts, and more.

Anti-Racism

Anti-Black racism, ethnic exclusion, and the hierarchies embedded in citizenship and labour systems shape daily life across the MENA region, and are rarely named in mainstream political debate. ARI supports the researchers and movements working to document them and to make equality, inclusion, and dignity a matter of policy rather than aspiration.

COVID-19

Documenting the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic to strengthen social protection, public health, governance, and crisis preparedness across the Arab region.

Diaspora

MENA diasporas are political actors in their own right, organizing across borders on peacebuilding, reconstruction, reconciliation, and democratic change at home. ARI documents how this organizing works, what it achieves, and where diaspora communities are shut out of decisions about their own countries.

Governance

Exploring pathways to more accountable, transparent, and responsive governance that better reflects citizens’ needs and aspirations.

Political Economy

Exploring the political economy of the Arab region to understand the forces shaping development, governance, and social justice.

Security Sector Reform

Examining security sector reform in the Arab region to strengthen democratic oversight, public accountability, and human security.

Syria’s Transition

Tracking Syria’s transition through research and dialogue that advances accountability, inclusive governance, and local empowerment to support a just, resilient, and sustainable future.

Women Political Participation

Women across the MENA region are driving social change, peacebuilding, and inclusive governance by advancing feminist visions of equal citizenship and strengthening their influence in political life. ARI supports this work through research led by women from the region, by convening feminist movements, researchers, and policymakers, and by bringing their analysis into the policy debates where decisions are made.
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