What is the effect of remittances on the approval of the current government/rulers across the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA)? Under what conditions do remittances increase support for the government (or result in apathy since economic well-being is less driven by the recipient country's government), and under what conditions do remittances increase political engagement and prompt more critical assessments of the current government. This question has been examined in a few studies in recent years, but never yet across the MENA countries. We provide the first such analysis, based on several thousand individual-level survey responses across numerous MENA countries. And we provide a mediation analysis to examine not just the correlation between remittances (as the stipulated cause) and approval of the government's performance (as the outcome of interest), but also the causal mechanism.