Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya and Lihi Ben Shitrit, University of Georgia[1] On January 28, 2020, the Trump administration…
Changing American Public Attitudes On Israel/Palestine: Does It Matter For Politics?
SHIBLEY TELHAMI, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND Over the past decade, there have been some important shifts in American public attitudes…
The POMEPS Team
Marc Lynch is a professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University and director of the Project on Middle East Political Science.…
Survey: Research Productivity Amidst Pandemic Times
We would like to invite you to participate in a brief 15-20 minute online survey on the effect of the outbreak…
What Lies Beneath the Sands: Archaeologies of Presence in Revolutionary Sudan
Noah Salomon, Carleton College “The Origin of Civilization,” mural image of the Meroe pyramids, al-Zubair Pasha St., Khartoum, post-revolutionary mural…
Determinants of Middle East states involvement in the Horn of Africa
Federico Donelli, University of Genoa, Genoa Recent political events in the Horn of Africa (HOA) such as the restoration of…
Network-Building and Human Capital investments at the intersection of China-Africa and China Middle East Relations
Lina Benabdallah, Wake Forest University In July 2019, a collation of twenty-two countries signed a letter calling on China to…
The Great Game of the UAE and Saudi Arabia in Sudan
Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, European Council on Foreign Relations After failing for years to decisively woo Omar al-Bashir to their axis, the…
National Identity in the Afro-Arab Periphery: Ethnicity, Indigeneity and (anti)Racism in Morocco
Hisham Aïdi, Columbia University In the last decade, Morocco and Algeria have attempted a “pivot” to Africa. The “infitah to…
Why Are There Few Islamist Parties South of the Sahara?
Alexander Thurston, University of Cincinnati For Islamic movements, the Sahara has often been a bridge, rather than a barrier.[i] The…