Editorial Director, @MiddleEastInst. Editor, writer & analyst with a focus on #MiddleEast and #Turkey. Views are my own. T/RT≠ endorsement.
Joined October 2018
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RT @gonultol: Ahead of the critical NATO summit in Turkey, we at the @MiddleEastInst are examining all dimensions of Turkey’s evolving rel…
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RT @gonultol: I had a great conversation with my colleagues at @MiddleEastInst about how competition for influence in the Horn of Africa am…
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"The ultimate end goal of reaching a diplomatic solution is something that I think a majority of Iranian leaders that are left would accept as ... a necessity for regime survival at this point," @AlexVatanka tells @mideasteditor and Matthew Czekaj.
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RT @gonultol: The latest episode of @MiddleEastInst 's podcast is great. My colleagues @mideasteditor and Matthew Czekaj speak to our Yemen…
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In my latest piece for the Middle East Institute, I examine why the #Houthis have so far stayed out of the conflict despite heavy U.S. & Israeli strikes against #Iran.
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RT @gonultol: My latest piece on Turkey and the Iran war:
1️⃣ NATO intercepted a second Iranian missile that entered Turkish airspace. Ank…
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"Lebanon's government, its president, and its prime minister... must make clear to everyone involved there is only one future for Lebanon and it is the Lebanese state and not the militia," @dr_nickfn tells Matthew Czekaj and @mideasteditor. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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I have a look here at the interim power council in Iran, what the game plan likely is and how Trump's next moves factor in Tehran's calculations
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Great to join @mideasteditor and Matt Czekaj for this conversation about state of Iran's explosive domestic realities and the US-Iran standoff -
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Happy book release day! Order your copy today.
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"What I will be looking for is momentum. Does this go beyond making big pronouncements, designing a logo, and moving on?" Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen tells @mideasteditor and Matthew Czekaj on this week's episode of Middle East Focus.
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Jan 29
"According to one high-level regional security official, several senior #SDF figures with deep roots within the #PKK — but not Mazloum Abdi — have consulted at length in recent days with Hikmat al-Hijri" in #Suwayda.
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Jan 20
"Emergency Podcast: #Damascus & #Syria's Kurds Come to Blows"
- I just recorded a 30min podcast for @MiddleEastInst looking at events over the past days:
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Jan 13
"How #Damascus & the #SDF came to blows in #Aleppo — and what might come next."
My NEW piece for @MiddleEastInst looks at the recent hostilities, why integration talks have failed until now, & where things are headed.
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Jan 6
JUST got home from dropping 20 off at O’Hare in Chicago. Got to the airport on time today around 2:30 pm, and his flight got delayed two hours. Ok, not a huge deal, but then his flight got cancelled and pushed back until tomorrow afternoon! This would cause him to miss all of his orientation meetings because he wouldn’t get to London for two days. Everyone on his flight was scrambling for alternate travel arrangements—including us, and we finally found a route that will get him to London by tomorrow evening. He just made it to Boston, and is sleeping in an airport for the first time lol. This is what it’s all about though, right? 😬🥳💪🏼 Say a prayer to keep him safe please.. 🙏🏼
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Can’t sleep. 20 leaves for London tomorrow evening for a semester abroad. I’m nervous and worried about his health and safety, but I haven’t been able to fairly tell him so because I too studied abroad my junior year of college—in London, and with far less safeguards like a cell phone, so I know he’ll be ok, but it’s just the distance. Still, I’m excited for him too knowing that he will have a transformational experience. Just going to lie here until I pass out in anxious exhaustion..
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In the last episode of Middle East Focus for 2025, we're joined by @paul_salem to unpack the major developments that shaped the Middle East over the past year and to look ahead to 2026. @MiddleEastInst
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As the year comes to a close, experts from across the @MiddleEastInst weigh in on where the region may be headed in 2026. With analysis from @paul_salem, @Katulis, @gonultol, @natansachs, @ProfessorKaren, @AlexVatanka, @Charles_Lister, @IuliJo & more.
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11 Dec 2025
This week on Middle East Focus, I'm joined by Amb. David Hale to discuss the Trump administration's new National Security Strategy & what it means for US policy toward the Middle East. @MiddleEastInst
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RT @gonultol: Iraqis have just gone to the polls in a pivotal parliamentary election that could redefine the country’s political trajectory…
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NEW -- Just back from #Syria, I joined the @MiddleEastInst podcast this week to discuss President al-Sharaa's visit to #Washington, the ongoing transition, sanctions, US-#Syria security ties, #ISIS, the #SDF & more.
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