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28 June 2020
PA Political circus: Why Abbas must hand over the PLO…
on Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud The painful truth is that the Palestinian Authority (PA) of President Mahmoud Abbas has already ceased to exist as a political body that holds much sway or relevan...
Read more20 June 2020
Foreign interests paramount in Libyan war
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 more18 June 2020
The ‘Palestinian Chair’: Israel’s direct role in US police violence
on Israel
By Ramzy Baroud The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of George Floyd, an African American man, at the hand...
Read more12 June 2020
Libya’s zero-sum politics and defiance of legitimacy – Part 2
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
Libya’s zero-sum politics and defiance of legitimacy – Part 1
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 more12 May 2020
What UAE seeks to gain from the Covid-19 crisis
By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey Crashing oil prices and further economic woes from the coronavirus outbreak are hitting the Middle East region hard, with many countr...
Read moreNew Israeli government finally formed, prepares to annex West Bank…
By Ran Greenstein When the Israeli Parliament dissolved itself in December 2018 and scheduled elections for April 2019, no one ex…
The conservative victory in Iran’s parliamentary elections
By Ali Fathollah-Nejad * Iran’s 21 February parliamentary (Majlis) elections, which took place amid massive internal an…
Palestinians battling COVID-19 under Israeli Occupation
by Yara Hawari The first measures taken against COVID-19 in the West Bank occurred in early March after the confirmation of …
Fragile ceasefire in Syria's Idlib province unable to prevent violence
Amid the outbreak of the global coronavirus pandemic, countries in conflict, such as Syria, are in the spotlight. The UN call…
28 June 2020
PA Political circus: Why Abbas must hand over the PLO…
on Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud The painful truth is that the Palestinian Authority (PA) of President Mahmoud Abbas has already ceased to exist as a political body that holds much sway or relevan...
Read more20 June 2020
Foreign interests paramount in Libyan war
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 more18 June 2020
The ‘Palestinian Chair’: Israel’s direct role in US police violence
on Israel
By Ramzy Baroud The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of George Floyd, an African American man, at the hand...
Read more12 June 2020
Libya’s zero-sum politics and defiance of legitimacy – Part 2
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
Libya’s zero-sum politics and defiance of legitimacy – Part 1
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 more12 May 2020
What UAE seeks to gain from the Covid-19 crisis
By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey Crashing oil prices and further economic woes from the coronavirus outbreak are hitting the Middle East region hard, with many countr...
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New Israeli government finally formed, prepares to annex West Bank territory
By Ran Greenstein When the Israeli Parliament dissolved itself in December 2018 and sched…
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The conservative victory in Iran’s parliamentary elections
By Ali Fathollah-Nejad * Iran’s 21 February parliamentary (Majlis) elections, which …
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Palestinians battling COVID-19 under Israeli Occupation
by Yara Hawari The first measures taken against COVID-19 in the West Bank occurred i…
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Fragile ceasefire in Syria's Idlib province unable to prevent violence
Amid the outbreak of the global coronavirus pandemic, countries in conflict, such as Syria…
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Lack of consequences emboldens Libya's Haftar
The 18 February 2020 attack on Tripoli’s main seaport is the latest in a series …
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Beyond Israeli Elections: Israel at the Cusp of a Bleak Era
By Ramzy Baroud Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, must be channelling the spiri…
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28 June 2020
PA Political circus: Why Abbas must hand over the PLO…
on Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud The painful truth is that the Palestinian Authority (PA) of President Mahmoud Abbas has already ceased to exist as a political body that holds much sway or relevan...
Read more18 June 2020
The ‘Palestinian Chair’: Israel’s direct role in US police violence
on Israel
By Ramzy Baroud The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of George Floyd, an African American man, at the hand...
Read more08 May 2020
New Israeli government finally formed, prepares to annex West Bank…
on Israel
By Ran Greenstein When the Israeli Parliament dissolved itself in December 2018 and scheduled elections for April 2019, no one expected that it would take a full year to form a ne...
Read more15 April 2020
Palestinians battling COVID-19 under Israeli Occupation
by Yara Hawari The first measures taken against COVID-19 in the West Bank occurred in early March after the confirmation of seven cases in Bethlehem that were linked to a Gre...
Read more09 April 2020
Fragile ceasefire in Syria's Idlib province unable to prevent violence
on Syria
Amid the outbreak of the global coronavirus pandemic, countries in conflict, such as Syria, are in the spotlight. The UN called for an immediate ceasefire in Syria in lig...
Read more28 February 2020
Beyond Israeli Elections: Israel at the Cusp of a Bleak…
on Israel
By Ramzy Baroud Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, must be channelling the spirit of Houdini as he continues to plot his escape from one of the most convoluted political ...
Read moreWhat you need to know about Trump's Annexation Plan
By Afro-Middle East Centre and Palestine Chronicle Read the full Plan US President Donald Trump finally unveiled his ‘Mi…
Read moreThe Africa-Palestine Conference: Why South Africa must lead the way
By Ramzy Baroud On 16 September, I visited South Africa, a country where many Palestinians have always felt welcomed, if not over…
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The war ahead: Netanyahu's election gamble will be costly for…
By Ramzy Baroud On 1 September, the Lebanese group Hizbullah, struck an Israeli military base near the border town…
Read moreBudding frenemies: The complicated US-Turkish relationship
When Donald Trump was elected the forty-fifth president of the USA in November 2016, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, …
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12 May 2020
What UAE seeks to gain from the Covid-19 crisis
By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey Crashing oil prices and further economic woes from the coronavirus outbreak are hitting the Middle East region hard, with many countr...
Read more24 April 2020
The conservative victory in Iran’s parliamentary elections
on Iran
By Ali Fathollah-Nejad * Iran’s 21 February parliamentary (Majlis) elections, which took place amid massive internal and external challenges to the state, ended wit...
Read more06 February 2020
Increased USA-Iran tensions after Soleimani's assassination and their regional impact
on Iran
The US assassination, on 3 January 2020, of Major-General Qasem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), greatly intensi...
Read more21 December 2019
Iraqi protests threaten political establishment
on Iraq
Despite the resignation of Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on 30 November 2019, protests in Iraq endure, with protester demands having evolved to include calls for ...
Read more23 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 moreAs Hudaida falls to Saudi-Emirati coalition, peace for Yemen seems…
The recent and ongoing Saudi-Emirati offensive on the Yemeni port city of Hudaida will render UN special envoy Martin Griffiths’s …
Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Dilemmas of Transformation in Saudi Arabia
By Madawi Al-Rasheed Introduction The dominant narrative through which many observers understand Saudi Arabia depicts a prog…
Chaotic Yemen: The deconstruction of a failed state and regional…
by Helen Lackner Yemen remains in the grip of its most severe crisis ever: the civil war between forces loyal to the internationa…
How the Saudis Escalated Yemen Struggle Beyond All Control
By Justin Podur Yemen is a small, poor country in a region empires have plundered for centuries. This civil war is a local strugg…
20 June 2020
Foreign interests paramount in Libyan war
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
Libya’s zero-sum politics and defiance of legitimacy – Part 2
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
Libya’s zero-sum politics and defiance of legitimacy – Part 1
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 more22 March 2020
Lack of consequences emboldens Libya's Haftar
on Libya
The 18 February 2020 attack on Tripoli’s main seaport is the latest in a series of measures by Libyan warlord, General Khalifa Haftar, to secure a military victory over h...
Read more20 February 2020
Egypt furious with Hamas over Haniyeh's Iran visit
on Egypt
Egypt is reportedly furious at Hamas’ leader Ismail Haniyeh after he and a delegation from Gaza attended the funeral of slain Iranian Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani. Haniye...
Read more28 October 2019
Tunisia's sustainable democratisation: Between new and anti-politics in the 2019…
on Tunisia
By Larbi Sadiki On 13 October, the election of retired constitutional law professor, Kais Saied, as Tunisia’s new president triggered a wide array of reactions and energised hopes...
Read moreTunisia’s presidential elections: A fragmented field
By Larbi Sadiki The Tunisian presidential race is heating up. With several front-runners and twenty-six candidates, the u…
Geopolitics of Sudan Revolution - Presentation to AMEC
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 i…
The 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…
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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Iran Looking at Possible Sabotage After Recent Explosions at Key Sites - The Wall Street Journal
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IMF Loans Will Further Entrench the Sisi Regime in Egypt - Foreign Policy
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South Sudan Response Plan April 2020–March 2021 - South Sudan - ReliefWeb
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Turkey to use agricultural potential to fullest - Anadolu Agency
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Italy slams Egypt's stance on killing as 'punch in the face' - Mooresville Tribune
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13 January 2020
Latest on the Iran and US tension: Naeem…
Iranian opposition members in Germany have warned of a "massacre" in their home country. They've demanded that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "must go" during a protest outside the foreign mini...
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08 January 2020
US-Iran tensions
US President Donald Trump has sought to downplay the significance of Iran's missile attack on two US bases in neighbouring Iraq. Trump tweeted that all was well and that the damage was being assessed...
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08 January 2020
Ebrahim Deen weighs in on escalating US-Iran tensions
The Globe speaks with Afro Middle-East Centre researcher Ebrahim Deen on escalating US- Iran tensions.
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20 October 2019
Syria accuses Turkey of violating a ceasefire deal:…
Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria have accused Turkey of violating a ceasefire deal by refusing to allow the evacuation of trapped civilians. Turkey has also accused Kurds of violating the ceasefire...
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