09 December 2020
By Ramzy Baroud In September 2017, organizers of the ‘Africa-Israel Summit’ indefinitely postponed their event which was scheduled to be held in Lomé, Togo, from 23 ...
Read more01 December 2020
on Israel
By Nikolay Kozhanov Introduction The Israeli-Emirati Memorandum of understanding and cooperation on the use of storage capacities and pipeline infrastructure ...
Read more27 November 2020
By Ramzy Baroud In a few words, a close associate of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu summed up the logic behind the ongoing frenzy to expand illegal Jewish settle...
Read more17 October 2020
on Israel
Zimbabwe is set to become the latest African country to embrace Israel as it seeks to get off the US sanctions list. Zimbabwe’s president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, vowed to get the emba...
Read more11 September 2020
on Turkey
By Ramzy Baroud The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has largely become an alliance in name alone. Recent events notwithstanding, the conflict brewing over ter...
Read more26 July 2020
on Syria
Despite relative calm in fighting in many parts of Syria, the north-western Idlib province has been under heavy Russian and Syrian government bombardment after a March 2020 ce...
Read moreBy Ramzy Baroud The painful truth is that the Palestinian Authority (PA) of President Mahmoud Abbas has already ceased to exist a…
Read moreBy Ramzy Baroud The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of …
Read moreBy Ran Greenstein When the Israeli Parliament dissolved itself in December 2018 and scheduled elections for April 2019, no one ex…
Read moreby Yara Hawari The first measures taken against COVID-19 in the West Bank occurred in early March after the confirmation of …
Read more05 September 2020
on Libya
Disputes within Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA), highlighted last week by the suspension of the interior minister, Fathi Bashagha, suggests a power struggle w...
Read more29 July 2020
on Tunisia
By Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh Introduction: A Turbulent Transition For the third time in six months, Tunisia’s political elites are scrambling to form a new government. This la...
Read more09 July 2020
on Tunisia
By Larbi Sadiki Since 2017, Tunisia’s interior and south have witnessed a wave of ongoing protests, characterised by the slogan ‘al-rakh la’, meaning ‘No Relenting’. These p...
Read more20 June 2020
on Libya
The Libyan conflict has endured for years despite numerous failed attempts at mediating a solution by the UN, African Union, and even Turkey and Italy. A 2011 arms embargo&nbs...
Read more12 June 2020
on Libya
by Mohammed Cherkaoui Retired general Khalifa Haftar stated that his ‘Libyan National Army (LNA)’ had a ‘popular mandate’ to rule Libya and vowed to press his assault to seize Tri...
Read more09 June 2020
on Libya
by Mohammed Cherkaoui Several puzzling questions have emerged in the volatile Arab geopolitical environment after two major developments occurred within less than forty-eight...
Read moreThe 18 February 2020 attack on Tripoli’s main seaport is the latest in a series of measures by Libyan warlord, General K…
Egypt is reportedly furious at Hamas’ leader Ismail Haniyeh after he and a delegation from Gaza attended the funeral of slain Iran…
By Larbi Sadiki On 13 October, the election of retired constitutional law professor, Kais Saied, as Tunisia’s new president trigg…
By Larbi Sadiki The Tunisian presidential race is heating up. With several front-runners and twenty-six candidates, the u…
16 September 2020
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have become the latest Arab States to sign an agreement normalizing relations with Israel in what is viewed as a strategic realignment of countries in the Middle E...
Read more15 September 2020
US expert Brooks Spector speculates US intel may have picked up informal chatter, but is unlikely to be a formal Iranian plot. US magazine Politico reported allegations of an attempted plot to assass...
Read more18 August 2020
To understand how divisions have further deepened after Israel and the UAE agreed on Thursday to establish diplomatic relations in a United States-brokered deal, we have asked an expert on the matter...
Read more07 July 2020
Azhar Vadi talks to Naeem Jeenah, Director of Afro Middle East Centre.
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