Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, Pakistan's new ambassador in Washington, was the focus of our first Ambassador Insider Series of 2025.

Foreign embassies welcomed the Trump administration into office with a series of events leading up to the inauguration.

Angelique Gingras is an associate editor at The Washington Diplomat. She is currently based in London where she is a postgraduate student in international journalism at City St. George's, University ...

Miami native Larry Luxner, a veteran journalist and photographer, has reported from more than 100 countries in Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia for a variety of news ...

Bishara A. Bahbah taught at Harvard University, where he was the associate director of its Middle East Institute. He served as editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem-based Palestinian newspaper, Al-Fajr. He ...

Mpho Mophuting, Botswana's ambassador to the United States, is actively promoting manufacturing, tourism and financial services in an effort to diversify his country's economy away from diamond mining ...

In the October 2018 Issue Putting D.C. on the Map The Meridian Is the Invisible Line That Runs Through Washington ...

D.C. has a wide collection of private organizations catering to the city’s elite, and several court members of Washington’s diplomatic corps.

Mpho Churchill Mophuting, Botswana’s new ambassador in Washington, says his country must end its near-total economic dependence on diamond exports. Tunisia’s Tajouri Bessassi makes history as 2024 ...

Choral Arts' 44th annual holiday concert and gala was held on Dec. 16 at the Kennedy Center. Estonian Ambassador Kristjan Prikk and his wife Liis were honorary patrons at Choral Arts Society of ...

A few ambassadors offered their thoughts on collaborative investment for growth at the Meridian International Center’s Shaping Geopolitical Futures Summit on the morning of Oct. 18. Later that evening ...

Esther Coopersmith is a woman known as Washington’s most famous hostess. At 92, she’s not nearly as energetic as she was just a few years ago. These days, she gets around with a wheelchair and the ...