Mesbar Studies & Research Center delivers incisive research and analysis on political and social movements in the Arab and Muslim world. Headquartered in Dubai, its team of multilingual experts hail from Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, the Levant, and North Africa, as well as the United States and Europe. Through an extensive network spanning the Arab region, Al-Mesbar accesses niche expertise and rare source materials to keep its scholarship on the cutting edge of inquiry.
The Center was founded on the belief that political analysis alone cannot adequately explain the region’s political trends, let alone predict their future course. Only a multidisciplinary approach grounded in the region’s culture, history, symbols, and intellectual milieu can yield the insights upon which effective policies are based.
The core agenda at the heart of all the Center’s activities is to identify the means by which to quicken the pace of social reform and human development throughout the Arab world, and foster civil peace and security for its populations.