Consulting & Networking

The Middle East is a dynamic arena rich in business and social opportunities, alongside unique risks and hidden complexities. To navigate it successfully, make informed decisions, and avoid surprises, you need insightful understanding connected to a reliable and authentic network of relationships.

The Middle East Center, headed by strategic advisor Tom Wegner, author of “The Abrahamic Revolution”, provides executives, organizations, investors, and decision-makers with the strategic compass they need to operate in the region. We maintain networks of relationships with organizations, intellectuals, and researchers throughout the length and breadth of the Middle East, translate geopolitical complexity into business insights, and provide direct access to the voices and opinion leaders shaping the future of the region.

Our Services for Executives and Organizations

We offer a modular suite of services, tailored to your strategic needs:

Strategic advisory and geopolitical intelligence: Gain a complete and accurate picture for business, policy, or security decision-making.
Research and reports: We provide in-depth, on-demand analyses on critical topics, including risk and political stability assessments: regimes, currents of influence, and geopolitical risks in target countries.
De-radicalization and religion-and-state trends: Understanding deep-rooted processes in Muslim societies and among minorities in the Middle East, and their impact.
Analysis of policy, regulation, and economic opportunities in the countries of the Middle East and the Muslim world
Strategic briefings for senior executives Discreet briefings, conferences, and focused workshops for boards of directors, management teams, and delegations, providing an up-to-date picture and distilling the information essential to your operations.

Networking, Business Development, and Stakeholder Mapping

We leverage our extensive network of relationships to create business and policy opportunities for you.

Market entry support and business development : We help businesspeople and companies open new markets in the Middle East and the wider Muslim world. The service includes identifying and vetting potential business partners, distributors, or strategic clients; brokering and accompanying initial meetings; and providing cultural and business advice to help ensure the success of the deal.
Opening doors and building connections: We identify and connect you with the parties most relevant to your goals – from investors to opinion leaders and regulators.
Mapping key players: Analyzing and identifying the most influential people and organizations in your field, and charting the right course of action for engaging with them.

Content and Speakers

As a regional content hub and speakers agency, we help organizations understand the Middle East and generate meaningful dialogue.

Agency for regional speakers and experts : We represent dozens of speakers from Middle Eastern countries and from minority communities in Israel. Our speakers offer an authentic perspective that is not available elsewhere, and are ideally suited to conferences, corporate events, and internal briefings.
Geopolitical content hub: We produce customized content for communications, education, or advocacy purposes, including thought-leadership content development, panel production, concept events and delegations, in-depth reviews, and video content.

Campaigns and Public Relations Across the Region

We plan and execute targeted campaigns to create influence, foster dialogue, or drive marketing in Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, and Urdu.

Public relations and media consulting in the Middle East: We work with leading media outlets in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, English, Kurdish, Turkish, or Urdu to generate positive exposure for your brand, organization, or idea.
Digital campaigns : Managing complex paid campaigns on social networks and local content platforms, fully adapted to the cultural and linguistic nuances of the target audience in the Middle East.

Our Advantage – Your Access to the Real Middle East