www.juancole.com/

Informed Comment. Analysis of the United States’ relations with the Middle East by Juan Cole, Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the University of Michigan.

www.cfr.org/

Council of Foreign Relations. One of the most well-respected non-partisan foreign policy think tanks, based in New York. 

www.mideasti.org/

The Middle East Institute.  A Washington based think tank whose role is to increase American knowledge about the Middle East.

https://www.brookings.edu/project/saban-center-cfr-middle-east-strategy-project/

The Saban Center at the Brookings Institution. Informed research and policy analysis.