President, US/Middle East Project
ECFR Alumni · Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme
Middle East, National Security
English, Hebrew
Daniel Levy used to be head of the Middle East and & North Africa programme at ECFR until 2016.
Before any Western intervention in the Syrian conflict, eight key issues need to be considered – from the goals of intervention and the legal issue to the regional impact and the possibility of a diplomatic alternative
This week's violence in Egypt is a watershed moment in the country's recent history, heralding more political contestation that is likely to be both harsh and unbalanced in favour of the government
Events in Cairo on Monday will go down as a watershed moment in what is now likely to be decades of upheaval facing Egypt. Egyptian society must have the courage to say “enough.”
The Palestinians should insist on several major concessions before upcoming peace talks
Conjecture abounds as to whether the PM has entered peace talks to do business or to filibuster; but the commitment recently displayed by the U.S. means testing times ahead for Israel's coalition.
Two years after the beginning of an uprising against President Bashar-al-Assad, Syria is gripped by an ever deepening civil war that is having a significant impact on the entire region.
How regional actors shape the conflict in Syria
The cynics may not believe it, but John Kerry's push to get Israelis and Palestinians talking could actually work. And even Europe is helping by ending Israeli impunity over settlements.
This is not a victory for freedom but for the old regime, or more precisely the Egyptian deep-state – a bureaucratic, military, and business elite, that never went away, is considered to be the real power in Egypt and that just reasserted its interests.
With no real case to make, the bullying opponents of the European Union's long-delayed plan to label produce from Israeli settlements in the West Bank are crying anti-Semitism, cheapening the term at a particularly inopportune time.
The sixth ECFR Foreign Policy Scorecard highlights the EU’s diminishing ability to influence its neighbours, and the neighbourhood’s growing impact on the EU
An “Islamic State first” strategy, that neglects the urgent need to secure political progress and de-escalation in Syria will fail
The EU needs an honest assessment of its capabilities and to set limited goals behind which member states can show sustainable unity
The fifth edition of ECFR’s Foreign Policy Scorecard examines EU’s response to a year of crisis
Essay collection on the regional dimensions of the IS crisis
The EU is ill-equipped to respond to foreign policy crises
A comprehensive assessment of European foreign policy
How regional actors shape the conflict in Syria
A diplomatic strategy for the conflict in Syria
Human rights and international law should be a timeless part of addressing problems in Israel and Palestine, but the international community urgently needs to begin doing so once more
In the absence of an adequate political and diplomatic strategy, bombing in Syria may do more harm than good
A visit to Downing Street is a welcome distraction for Mr. Netanyahu as Congressional options close over Iran deal
Analysis: For outside powers, the Yemen crisis is part of a balancing act with the nuclear deal at its heart
For the first time this century the leader of Israel’s Labour Party appears to be genuinely competing for the position of Prime Minister.
Netanyahu may come out of the US-Israel political brouhaha relatively unscathed, but his incoherence on the Iran issue itself is far more worrying and damaging.
The West needs to push regional actors to assume their responsibilities in confronting the threat posed by IS
There is a case to be made for Europe not recognising the Palestinian state, but is it a worthwhile one?
The biggest danger for Israel, as it is for some of its neighbours, is that the “Islamic State metastasising threat narrative” could become a self-fulfilling prophecy
Apparent wall-to-wall consensus in favour of the Gaza offensive among the Israeli public masks a deep internal moral malaise
ECFR’s innovative project Two State Stress Test provides a health-check on whether developments across seven different areas are serving to strain or sustain a possible two-state outcome for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
In the first discussion Dr Nabil Shaath, a senior member of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, looks at the internal Palestinian democratic process and the…
The second panel discusses the campaign in Israel for Palestinian human rights and the consequences of prolonged occupation for Palestinians and for Israeli democracy…
ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks to Daniel Levy, director of the MENA programme, and to policy fellows Julien Barnes-Dacey and Ellie Geranmayeh, about the…
With only a few months following his election victory, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is faced with his first crisis over a discriminatory pilot…
With the Israeli elections coming up, Rosemary Hollis, Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at City University, Menachem Klein, Professor of Political Science at…
Sami Abdel Shafi, Representative of the Carter Center in Gaza, Tony Laurance, Chief Executive of Medical Aid for Palestinians, Maha Abu Shama, Programme Officer…
Saudi Arabian Prince Turki bin Faisal al-Saud and ECFR's Daniel Levy discuss to what extent Riyadh's relations with the West are going through a…
Mark Leonard talks to Jose Ignacio Torreblanca and Daniel Levy about the European elections, euroscepticism, and the Middle East peace process after Kerry
Washington should not underestimate the extent to which the extremely unpopular assault on Gaza is seen globally as not only Israel’s war, but America’s as well
Daniel Levy explains why the Biden administration needs a reset on Israel
For so much of the Global South, [Palestine] is a kind of avatar of a rebellion against western hypocrisy, against this unacceptable global order, and against the post colonial order
Daniel Levy comments on a global order facing mutiny over its domination of the international discourse
I don’t think it would be wise for any Palestinian movement to say: ‘We will do this under the watchful eye of Israel’
Daniel Levy explains why he counsels the Palestinian Authority against entering Gaza if security remains an Israeli preserve
The lie at the heart of American-led normalization is that this is peacemaking, and is somehow a substitute for dealing with the core Israeli-Palestinian issue
Daniel Levy explains failings in the Israeli system with the 2020 Abraham Accords
Daniel Levy on 'Made in Settlements' labels in Europe