Europe is writing itself out of the Middle East
The case for suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement on grounds of human rights is a powerful argument – as long as one doesn't look at what else Europe is doing in the region
Rabat
The Moroccan plan is a path to peace with Algeria
The United Nations Security Council has voted in support of a resolution calling for autonomy in Western Sahara as the best solution possible to Rabat’s longstanding territorial dispute with the separatist Iranian and Algerian-backed Polisario Front.
Op-eds
Iran’s Foothold Reaches Into North Africa
In the early days of the Israel-Hamas war, Iran issued a baffling threat: if Israel did not relent in Gaza, Tehran would close the Strait of Gibraltar, the narrow maritime passage separating Africa from...
Policy Briefs
King of Morocco Invites Israeli Prime Minister to Visit
Morocco’s King Muhammad VI invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on July 19 to visit him in Rabat. The invitation comes two days after Jerusalem announced that it recognized Morocco’s...
Flash Briefs
How to get Kyiv the Tanks and Armored Vehicles It Needs
“We’re fighting the war out of our pickup trucks,” stated a Ukrainian soldier when reflecting on Ukraine’s slowing counteroffensive in Luhansk region. While Ukraine has a large inventory of tanks...
Insights
Hamas-Fatah reconciliation attempts are DOA
The recent Abbas-Haniyeh handshake signifies the desperate state of both Palestinian factions – as well as of their Algerian hosts
Op-eds
The May 2021 Israel-Hamas war was a stress test for normalization
With the signing of the Abraham Accords last year, a rare sense of optimism washed over the Middle East. Many in Israel believed that these agreements signaled that the Arab world had given up on the Palestinian...
Op-eds
Un conflicto territorial congelado
¿Por qué la soberanía del Sáhara Occidental continúa siendo una disputa abierta? El confl icto continúa embravecido porque Naciones Unidas y la mayor parte de la comunidad internacional occidental,...
Op-eds
Iran’s Mischief in Morocco Is a Problem
Iran has historically supported any militancy against pro-Western regimes, regardless of their religious or political orientation.
Op-eds
COVID-19 in Morocco
Although Morocco seems to have escaped the worst of the pandemic with a relatively low number of confirmed cases and deaths, the COVID-19 crisis has devastated the country’s economy. Morocco, which has...
Policy Briefs
Occupied Elsewhere
Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes
Monographs
Morocco Accuses Iran and Hezbollah of Polisario Front Support
In a surprise move, Morocco announced this week it...
Policy Briefs
Russia’s Charm Offensive in North Africa
With the world’s attention focused on the question of Russian influence in the United States and the European Union, the Kremlin is quietly making inroads in anot...
Op-eds
Morocco Arrests Hezbollah Financier
Lebanese media reported Tuesday that the tycoon and terror financier Qassem Tajeddin has been apprehended in Morocco before boarding a flight to Beirut. The U.S. Treasury Department...
Policy Briefs
Moroccan Exceptionalism?
I recently spent nearly two weeks in North Africa, arriving just before popular demonstrations drove Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power and leaving just after the protesters occupi...
Op-eds
A New Chapter for Africa
On Sunday, Southern Sudanese in their millions flocked to some three thousand polling stations set up not only in Sudan, but around the world to the accommodate the far-flung diaspora, to cast th...
Op-eds
Iran’s Global Terrorist Reach
The United States became painfully aware of the threat posed by global jihadism after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. Until that day, Iranian-backed terrorist networks, such as Hezbolla...
Op-eds
Why Morocco Must Stay
After a nineteen year UN presence in the Western Sahara, the Security Council is about to follow Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's recommendation and vote to extend the mandate of the United N...
Op-eds
Shi’a in Senegal: Iran’s Growing Reach into Africa
As the Iranian regime celebrated its 31st birthday last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad first ordered and then boasted that the nuclear plant at Natanz had successfully enriched uranium to 19...
Op-eds
Guinea: In Search of a Soft Landing
Guinea cannot seem to catch a break. In 1958, it was the only French colony to opt for an immediate break with France rather than continued association with Paris leading to gradual inde...