The following is just a partial listing of multiple opportunities available to undergraduate and graduate students. Government agencies, think-tanks, advocacy groups, faith-based organizations, human rights NGOs, and others are represented, and were selected on the basis of their offerings for students, recent graduates, and others interested in an international career or volunteering overseas. All work in some capacity with Middle East issues, but many are generalists in their international work.
The Brookings Institution (Saban Center for Middle East Policy; U.S. Relations with the Islamic World)
Council on Foreign Relations
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Carnegie Middle East Center in Lebanon; Middle East Program in DC)
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Middle East Program)
Center for Strategic and International Studies (Middle East Program; Transnational Threats Project)
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Institute for Policy Studies (New Internationalism Project; Right Web)
American Enterprise Institute (Critical Threats Project; Islam and the Middle East; Middle East Studies)
Project on Middle East Democracy
Hudson Institute
New America Foundation (Intern with Senior Fellow Peter Beinart)
Henry L. Stimson Center (Middle East and Southwest Asia)
International Peace Institute (Middle East Program)
National Democratic Institute (Middle East and North Africa Division)
AmeriCares (Middle East Global Partnerships Department)
National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
Human Rights Watch (MENA Division)
Collateral Repair Project (MENA)
Middle East Forum
Freedom House (MENA Program; Turkey Program)
Social Science Research Councils (Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum; MENA Program)
Vital Voices (MENA Program)
Atlantic Council (Rafik Hariri Center)
Chatham House (UK - Middle East and North Africa Programme)
SETA Foundation (Turkish Focus)
Turkish Coalition of America
The Jerusalem Fund
International Foundation for Electoral Systems
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Foreign Policy Association
ABA Rule of Law
Asia Society
EastWest Institute
InterAction
Human Rights First
Global Policy Forum
Carter Center
Amnesty International (UK)
World Affairs Council (Philadelphia)
Women for Women International
International Rescue Committee
UNDP
Oxfam America
Open Society Foundations
National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce
New Israel Fund (Social Justice Fellowship)
National Endowment for Democracy
Mercy Corps
International Republican Institute (Focus on elections)
International Justice Missions
Government
Department of State employment webpage, linked to online applications for various jobs in civil and foreign service, as well as student internship opportunities
Department of Defense
Defense Intelligence Agency
Department of Commerce
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate - Contact individual senator's offices for employment/internship opportunities.