Rudolph Atallah, senior fellow of the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, gave a presentation on the complexities of the situation in Mali to participants of the National Defense University's Africa Center for Strategic Studies' (ACSS) 2013 Next Generation of Security Sector Leaders course.

Anna Borshchevskaya, assistant director with the Council's Patriciu Eurasia Center, provided analysis in two commentaries: on Russia’s strengthening ties with Lebanon and assisting the country with Syrian refugees, and on Russia’s increasing arms exports.

Michele Dunne, Hariri Middle East Center director, speaks with PBS NewsHour's Margaret Warner ahead of Secretary of State John Kerry's first overseas trip to discuss foreign policy priorities in the Middle East, particularly Egypt's ailing economy.

In a Foreign Affairs piece entitled “Handicapping the Kenyan Election,” Bronwyn Bruton, deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, outlines the best- and worst-case scenarios for the upcoming Kenyan elections.

From the Hariri Middle East Center, Senior Fellow Richard LeBaron and researcher Stefanie Hausheer contributed a piece in U.S. News & World Report on "Americans Must Do More to Welcome Saudi Scholarship Students."

Bronwyn Bruton, deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was interviewed on Monday's Kenyan elections by Carol Castiel on this week’s edition of the Voice of America’s Encounter.

Global Business and Economics Program Senior Fellow Dr. Douglas Besharov testified before the House Committee on Ways and Means on lessons learned from Europe in reforming unemployment and social assistance welfare programs.

Frederic C. Hof, senior fellow with the Hariri Middle East Center, recently wrote "Syria: From Objective to Strategy" for the Hariri Center's Viewpoint. The Washington Post's editorial board mentioned Hof's piece in a recent column

J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, co-authored a just-published study examining Morocco’s relationship with the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and its successor, the African Union (AU), in the evolving context of one of the world’s most intractable feuds, the dispute over the Western Sahara.

NPR’s Michele Kelemen reports ahead of Secretary of State John Kerry’s first overseas tour, Frederic C. Hof, senior fellow with the Hariri Middle East Center, comments on the US envoy’s scheduled talks with Syrian opposition leaders and the chances for a diplomatic solution to the Syria crisis.