Joshua Yaphe

Senior Fellow

For fifteen years, Joshua Yaphe served as the lead analyst for the Arabian Peninsula at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR). He has also been a frequent participant in Track Two forums on the Middle East and guest speaker at events in the United States, Europe, and the Gulf. He has written for National Review, The American Mind, The American Spectator, The National Interest, and other publications.

Dr. Yaphe is the author of Saudi Arabia and Iraq as Friends and Enemies: Borders, Tribes and a History Shared (University of Liverpool Press, 2021), and Time and Narrative in Intelligence Analysis: A New Framework for the Production of Meaning (Routledge, 2025), which is available in an Open Access edition. He has a Ph.D. from American University in Washington, DC, and served as a Visiting Fellow at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. He was also a Visiting Faculty member at National Intelligence University and a Dean’s Fellow at Dickinson College.

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