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Dear Colleagues, We hope you are keeping well through these difficult times. Like everyone else, POMEPS has been forced to…
Carnegie Corporation Invites You to Participate in a Virtual Classroom Collaboration Opportunity
Our work at Carnegie Corporation of New York relies on you – the faculty and graduate students spearheading research and…
POMEPS Studies 40 – Africa and the Middle East: Beyond the Divides
The papers, published in this collection, ranged widely over issues connecting West Africa, the Horn, the Sahel and North Africa…
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…