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04 October 2019
The Africa-Palestine Conference: Why South Africa must lead the way
on Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud On 16 September, I visited South Africa, a country where many Palestinians have always felt welcomed, if not overwhelmed by the degree of genuine and meaningful so...
Read more14 September 2019
Tunisia’s presidential elections: A fragmented field
on Tunisia
By Larbi Sadiki The Tunisian presidential race is heating up. With several front-runners and twenty-six candidates, the upcoming early elections on 15 September reflects a...
Read more06 September 2019
The war ahead: Netanyahu's election gamble will be costly for…
on Israel
By Ramzy Baroud On 1 September, the Lebanese group Hizbullah, struck an Israeli military base near the border town of Avivim. The Lebanese attack came as an inevita...
Read more04 September 2019
Budding frenemies: The complicated US-Turkish relationship
on Turkey
When Donald Trump was elected the forty-fifth president of the USA in November 2016, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was among the first world leaders to congratulate ...
Read more14 August 2019
Syria's security reshuffle highlights Russia's consolidation of power
on Syria
July began with a major shake-up in the Syrian military and intelligence apparatus. In an attempt to consolidate power after regaining territorial control over most of the country...
Read more30 July 2019
Geopolitics of Sudan Revolution - Presentation to AMEC
on Sudan
Sudan lies in the hotbed of the Horn of Africa, a region that has been plagued by decades of instability and ruin as a result of intense conflicts perpetuated by post-colonial vest...
Read moreThe December 2018 revolution and Sudanese professionals in the diaspora
WE LEFT SUDAN In drovesIn the late 80’s and 90’sIndeed, my generation of educated Sudanese professionals are scattered around the…
Geopolitics of Sudan Revolution - Presentation to AMEC
By Zeenat Adam 17 July 2019 Sudan lies in the hotbed of the Horn of Africa, a region that has been plagued by decades of instabi…
A new cold war in Africa
By Mehari Taddele Maru Last month, the twelfth US-Africa Business Summit, a high-level event attended by eleven African head…
Strategic implications of the 'deal of the century' and the…
Aisling Byrne interviews Abdel Bari Atwan Donald Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ (DoC) - whether in its actual or conceptual form -…
04 October 2019
The Africa-Palestine Conference: Why South Africa must lead the way
on Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud On 16 September, I visited South Africa, a country where many Palestinians have always felt welcomed, if not overwhelmed by the degree of genuine and meaningful so...
Read more14 September 2019
Tunisia’s presidential elections: A fragmented field
on Tunisia
By Larbi Sadiki The Tunisian presidential race is heating up. With several front-runners and twenty-six candidates, the upcoming early elections on 15 September reflects a...
Read more06 September 2019
The war ahead: Netanyahu's election gamble will be costly for…
on Israel
By Ramzy Baroud On 1 September, the Lebanese group Hizbullah, struck an Israeli military base near the border town of Avivim. The Lebanese attack came as an inevita...
Read more04 September 2019
Budding frenemies: The complicated US-Turkish relationship
on Turkey
When Donald Trump was elected the forty-fifth president of the USA in November 2016, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was among the first world leaders to congratulate ...
Read more14 August 2019
Syria's security reshuffle highlights Russia's consolidation of power
on Syria
July began with a major shake-up in the Syrian military and intelligence apparatus. In an attempt to consolidate power after regaining territorial control over most of the country...
Read more30 July 2019
Geopolitics of Sudan Revolution - Presentation to AMEC
on Sudan
Sudan lies in the hotbed of the Horn of Africa, a region that has been plagued by decades of instability and ruin as a result of intense conflicts perpetuated by post-colonial vest...
Read moreThe December 2018 revolution and Sudanese professionals in the diaspora
WE LEFT SUDAN In drovesIn the late 80’s and 90’sIndeed, my generation of educated Sudanes…
Read moreGeopolitics of Sudan Revolution - Presentation to AMEC
By Zeenat Adam 17 July 2019 Sudan lies in the hotbed of the Horn of Africa, a region tha…
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Strategic implications of the 'deal of the century' and the incremental establishment of Greater Israel
Aisling Byrne interviews Abdel Bari Atwan Donald Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ (DoC) - wh…
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Postponed: Unveiling of Trump's 'deal of the century' frozen as Israel heads to fresh polls
Touted by its architects as the ‘deal of the century’, US president Donald Trump’s plan fo…
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Teaching Palestine in South Africa
By Diana Block Reaffirming Internationalism in the Twenty-first Century In March 2019 I …
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India in Kashmir: Risking peace as an antidote to war
By Ranjan Solomon On 14 February 2019, a convoy of vehicles carrying security person…
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04 October 2019
The Africa-Palestine Conference: Why South Africa must lead the way
on Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud On 16 September, I visited South Africa, a country where many Palestinians have always felt welcomed, if not overwhelmed by the degree of genuine and meaningful so...
Read more06 September 2019
The war ahead: Netanyahu's election gamble will be costly for…
on Israel
By Ramzy Baroud On 1 September, the Lebanese group Hizbullah, struck an Israeli military base near the border town of Avivim. The Lebanese attack came as an inevita...
Read more04 September 2019
Budding frenemies: The complicated US-Turkish relationship
on Turkey
When Donald Trump was elected the forty-fifth president of the USA in November 2016, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was among the first world leaders to congratulate ...
Read more14 August 2019
Syria's security reshuffle highlights Russia's consolidation of power
on Syria
July began with a major shake-up in the Syrian military and intelligence apparatus. In an attempt to consolidate power after regaining territorial control over most of the country...
Read more23 June 2019
Strategic implications of the 'deal of the century' and the…
Aisling Byrne interviews Abdel Bari Atwan Donald Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ (DoC) - whether in its actual or conceptual form - is ushering in a new strategic era, providing cov...
Read more14 June 2019
Postponed: Unveiling of Trump's 'deal of the century' frozen as…
Touted by its architects as the ‘deal of the century’, US president Donald Trump’s plan for Palestine and Israel has had to again be kept hidden as Israel heads back to elections a...
Read moreTeaching Palestine in South Africa
By Diana Block Reaffirming Internationalism in the Twenty-first Century In March 2019 I traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa t…
Read moreTurkish local election outcome signals disillusionment with Erdogan
Turkey’s local election concluded with the country’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) incurring heavy losses in maj…
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As Abbas Ages, Fatah Moves to Consolidate Power
By Ramzy Baroud Five years after spearheading what is inaptly referred to as a ‘government of national reconciliation’, Palestini…
Read moreNeopatrimonialism, corruption and the Palestinian Authority: Pathways to real reform
By Marwa Fatafta (This article was first published by Al-Shabaka - The Palestinian Policy Network) Palestinians recent…
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23 October 2018
Jamal Khashoggi, small spark for a large fire
on Saudi Arabia
By Hassan Aourid Until last Saturday, I was hopeful that the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at his country’s consulate in Istanbul was not more than a case of c...
Read more19 October 2018
Khashoggi murder: Killing dissent even from within
on Saudi Arabia
The gruesome murder of exiled Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul was designed to be a clear and firm message for Saudi dissidents, and reflected th...
Read more08 July 2018
As Hudaida falls to Saudi-Emirati coalition, peace for Yemen seems…
on Yemen
The recent and ongoing Saudi-Emirati offensive on the Yemeni port city of Hudaida will render UN special envoy Martin Griffiths’s ‘new’ solution to the five-year-long Yemeni crisis...
Read more18 May 2018
Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Dilemmas of Transformation in Saudi Arabia
on Saudi Arabia
By Madawi Al-Rasheed Introduction The dominant narrative through which many observers understand Saudi Arabia depicts a progressive and modernist leadership struggling to gra...
Read more27 April 2018
Chaotic Yemen: The deconstruction of a failed state and regional…
on Yemen
by Helen Lackner Yemen remains in the grip of its most severe crisis ever: the civil war between forces loyal to the internationally-recognised government of President Abd Rabbuh ...
Read more12 December 2017
How the Saudis Escalated Yemen Struggle Beyond All Control
on Yemen
By Justin Podur Yemen is a small, poor country in a region empires have plundered for centuries. This civil war is a local struggle that has been escalated out of control by the a...
Read moreYemen: Death of the snake dancer
The 4 December death of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, at the hands of his former Houthi coalition partners, is a cul…
Saudi Arabia: The king is (not) dead; Long live the…
In an extremely busy twenty-four hours in Saudi Arabia this past weekend, a series of moves by the palace sought to consolidate th…
Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum: Barzani’s political (mis)calculation?
The decision by the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq to hold a referendum on independence has proven to be a terrible mis…
Bahrain’s call to normalise ties with Israel
By Afro-Middle East Centre Recent statements by Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa criticising the Arab boycott of Israel an…
14 September 2019
Tunisia’s presidential elections: A fragmented field
on Tunisia
By Larbi Sadiki The Tunisian presidential race is heating up. With several front-runners and twenty-six candidates, the upcoming early elections on 15 September reflects a...
Read more30 July 2019
Geopolitics of Sudan Revolution - Presentation to AMEC
on Sudan
Sudan lies in the hotbed of the Horn of Africa, a region that has been plagued by decades of instability and ruin as a result of intense conflicts perpetuated by post-colonial vest...
Read more30 July 2019
The December 2018 revolution and Sudanese professionals in the diaspora
on Sudan
WE LEFT SUDAN In drovesIn the late 80’s and 90’sIndeed, my generation of educated Sudanese professionals are scattered around the globe(Out of 200 medical graduates from Khartoum ...
Read more29 July 2019
Geopolitics of Sudan Revolution - Presentation to AMEC
on Sudan
By Zeenat Adam 17 July 2019 Sudan lies in the hotbed of the Horn of Africa, a region that has been plagued by decades of instability and ruin as a result of intense conflicts per...
Read more17 April 2019
Bashir falls but the security apparatus maintains control
on Sudan
Since the military ouster of Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir, early on Thursday, 11 April, after three months of protests, different military factions have been jos...
Read more16 April 2019
Haftar's march on Tripoli
on Libya
Khalifa Haftar’s 4 April announcement declaring his march on Tripoli, and the subsequent attack on the Libyan capital by his forces, threaten to gravely impact the a...
Read moreUncertainty follows Moroccan-Saudi spat
By Hassan Aourid Moroccan-Saudi relations have never been as cool and strained as they have become in the past week, following a…
Bashir's eroding domestic legitimacy
The large-scale and wide geographic spread of protests in Sudan over the past few weeks pose a greater threat to the regime of Pre…
The need for Algerian-Moroccan dialogue
By Hassan Aourid An astute observer of Algeria and Morocco will notice that relations between the two countries have taken a…
Scripted electoral victory for Egypt's Sisi
The Egyptian government’s need to artificially increase voter turnout in the presidential election at the end of March through a c…
12 October 2018
Ethiopia, Eritrea: An unlikely peace deal in a fractious region
on Ethiopia
The recent peace deal between Ethiopia and Eritrea, signed 16 September 2018, is set to have lasting consequences for both countries and for the Horn of Africa ...
Read more06 April 2017
Ensuring Somalia remains in conflict: Trump’s expanded ‘war on terror’
on Somalia
By Afro-Middle East Centre The 29 March decision by the administration of US president Donald Trump declaring Somalia an ‘area of active hostility’ will likely ensure an escalatio...
Read more10 October 2016
South Sudan: Beyond the logjam of UNSC Resolution 2304
on South Sudan
By Majak D’Agoôt and Remember Miamingi No country is entirely self-contained or lacking in interdependencies. These interlocking interests form the critical part of any country’s ...
Read more28 April 2015
Nigeria’s elections and future challenges
By Afro-Middle East Centre The election of General Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s president will see a renewed focus by the government on domestic challenges posed by endemic...
Read more26 September 2013
Kenyan hostage crisis: The desperation of al-Shabab
By Afro-Middle East Centre The hostage drama at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi over the past week has raised a number of questions about the Somali organisation al-Shabab. After the...
Read more23 January 2013
French military intervention will add to Mali’s problems
By Afro-Middle east Centre The north of Africa was plunged into yet another international conflict with France’s invasion of Mali on Friday, 11 January. Without im...
Read moreThe effects of the ‘War on Terror’ on states’ foreign…
By Afro-Middle East Centre Recent statements that ‘there is no alternative….it’s going to take military force…
Will Al-Shabab recover from a major defeat?
By Osman Abdi Mohamed In recent months Al-Shabab has been suffering successive losses at the hands of Somali government forces fi…
The core of the Somali crisis, and the challenges of…
Unlike the Lebanese crisis, or that of Kosovo, the Somali crisis is characterised by ongoing self-igniting and self-sustaining vio…
Thinking differently in an attempt to break the Somali impasse
By Afro-Middle East Centre On the 22 July 2010, an African Union Summit in Kampala, Uganda, resolved to increase the number of tr…
23 April 2019
India in Kashmir: Risking peace as an antidote to war
on South Asia
By Ranjan Solomon On 14 February 2019, a convoy of vehicles carrying security personnel on the Jammu Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber ...
Read more28 August 2015
Does Pakistan’s refusal to join Saudi Arabia in Yemen indicate…
on Pakistan
By Afro-Middle East Centre Allegedly, the current Saudi-led onslaught on Yemen has already caused destruction that resembles the destruction wrought in Syria over the la...
Read more31 March 2012
The feasibility of a continued United States presence in Afghanistan
on South Asia
By Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn Recent events in Afghanistan have fuelled speculation over the ability of international forces to continue their presence in the coun...
Read more28 February 2012
Dangerous uncertainty in Pakistan
on South Asia
By Junaid S. Ahmed With relations between Pakistan's civilian government and military incredibly tense, speculation is rife in the Pakistani and international media of a looming m...
Read more30 May 2011
Pakistan-USA relations in the post-Usama era
on South Asia
By Junaid S. Ahmad The assassination of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by US Special Forces was supposed to have been a landmark triumph that would bring peace and stability to the r...
Read more13 December 2010
Kashmir and Obama's Indian appeasement
on South Asia
By Mohammad Abdullah Gul Obama's recent jive with school children in Delhi symbolises the nature of the new relationship that is emerging between India and the United States of Am...
Read morePakistan’s floods: Pressing problems and potential risks
By Najam Abbas Pakistan's recent floods have left eight million people dependent on aid for their survival, and washed away huge …
Wikileaks, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
By Mohammed Abdullah Gul On 25 July 2010, the New York Timescarried an explosive story by Mark Mazzetti, Jane Perlez, Eric …
India walks a tightrope in its relations with Israel, Arab…
By Ramananda Sengupta 'We do have a defence relationship with India, which is no secret. On the other hand, what is a secret is w…
Afghanistan: terrain for India-Pakistan proxy war
By Ramananda Sengupta The savage attack on Kabul hotels housing Indian workers on 26th February 2010 - the fourth major attack on…
26 April 2017
IS reorganising to face new challenges
Reports in January 2017 that the leader of the Islamic State group (IS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had been killed, reports that he had been captured by Russian troops in Syria, and th...
Read more07 March 2017
IS in Africa: Containment and fragmentation
By Afro-Middle East Centre With the Islamic State group (IS) losing territory in Syria and Iraq, many believe that the group will use the territory it controls in Africa as a fall...
Read more14 May 2016
The Paradox of Survival and Expansion: How the Islamic State…
Omar Ashour This paper examines the reasons for the military steadfastness of the Islamic State group (IS) in the face of local and international forces that are larger in numbers...
Read more19 December 2015
ISIS in Africa: Reality far different from IS propaganda
By Afro-Middle East Centre The revelation that the alleged mastermind of the 13 November Paris attacks claimed by the Islamic State group (IS) was of Moroccan descent, the tur...
Read more20 July 2015
Remaining and expanding: Measuring the Islamic State group’s success in…
By Afro-Middle East Centre Since its declaration of a ‘caliphate’ on 29 June 2014, the Islamic State group (IS), the brutal successor to al-Qa'ida, has gone from stren...
Read more31 January 2012
The rise of 'Ikhwanophobia': Fear of the Muslim Brotherhood
By Dr. Mohsen Saleh Introduction Fear of the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwanal-Muslimoon), the leading Islamist movement, has gained unprecedented international prominence since the b...
Read moreDialogue with the Taliban: Negotiation or inducement?
By AlJazeera Centre for Studies The London Conference, held at the end of January 2010 in recognition of, and support for, Afgh…
Al-Qa'ida Hot Spots
By AlJazeera Centre for Studies At the end of the phase known as the "Afghan Jihad", most Arabs and Muslims who participated in t…
Al-Qaeda, Jihad and the Democratization of Islamic Authority
by Faisal Devji On the fifth anniversary of 9/11 a jihadist website posted a long interview with Osama bin Laden's lieutenant, A…
Abstract : ‘Jihad’ as a form of struggle in the…
Abstract for paper presented by Na'eem Jeenah, Executive Director of the Afro-Middle East Centre, at the conference on "Rethinking…
18 February 2018
Africa and the problem of foreign military bases
At the establishment of the African Union (AU) in May 2001, discourses about human security and counter terrorism were ubiquitous both globally and on the continent. In Africa, the...
Read more21 November 2015
The Paris attacks: Aftermath and the Islamic State group’s future
By Afro-Middle East Centre The terror unleashed on Paris streets on 13 November reverberated throughout the world. From the G20 summit in Antalya to social media debates about how...
Read more28 May 2010
Al-Qaeda in the New National Security Strategy
By Mark Lynch The Obama administration's new National Security Strategy has been released today. It goes a long way towards providing a coherent framework for American foreign pol...
Read more16 February 2010
Pakistan’s attitude towards Obama’s plan to negotiate with the Taliban
By Dr. Ijaz Shafi Gilani U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to negotiate with the Taliban in Afghanistan has generally been welcomed in Pakistan. It is being seen as a vindication...
Read more07 February 2010
Mission Absolute: American hegemony in space
By Sourav Roy Come April 2010, officials from the sleepy Polish municipality of Morag will be gearing up for perhaps their most critical assignment in the new decade. Their job wi...
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Outsourcing Repression
September 26, 2019
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The Battle for Justice in Palestine
January 19, 2014
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Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East
January 19, 2014
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Tomorrow's Battlefield: US Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa
January 19, 2014
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News from Middle East and North Africa
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UK suspends arms sales to Turkey for items that might be used in Syria - Sky News
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Saudi ambassador accuses Turkey of causing chaos in Syria - The Guardian
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5 things to know for October 15: Syria, Fort Worth shooting, impeachment inquiry - CNN
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Volkswagen pauses $1.4 billion investment in Turkey over Syria invasion - CNN
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US briefing: Turkey sanctions, John Bolton and Fort Worth shooting - The Guardian
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4 Big Questions About Syria's Future - The New York Times
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Australian families trapped in Isis camp in Syria plead with government to rescue them - The Guardian
Media Gallery
16 September 2019
An Evening With Ramzy Baroud - Journalist /…
He has just recently written a book "The Last Earth - A Palestinian Story" which tell the stories of dispossession, exile, and loss of ordinary Palestinians.... but it is also about hope and residence...
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22 July 2019
Sudan Seminar: Sudan struggling for democracy resisting…
Events in the Sudan since the ouster of long-time ruler Omar Al-Bashir have developed into a stalemate as protesters and military jostle for control. With the army increasing using violence against t...
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14 June 2019
Conference on Migration that AMEC co-hosted with the…
Throwback to May 15, when IFAS-Recherche had the pleasure to organise a conference hosted by specialists of migrations in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle-East.The first panel composed of Tanya Zack ...
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