Hisham Aïdi, Columbia University In the last decade, Morocco and Algeria have attempted a “pivot” to Africa. The “infitah to…
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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…
Concluding Reflections on Africa and the Middle East
Alex de Waal, Tufts University If ‘Africa’ straddles the vast desert of the Sahara, the Kenyan historian Ali Mazrui once…
Black Tunisians and the Pitfalls of Bourguiba’s Homogenization Project
Afifa Ltifi, Cornell University “Liberty must be suppressed until the end of the war in Algeria– until the nation becomes…
The Scalar Politics of Turkey’s Pivot to Africa
Ezgi Guner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Turkey’s recent interest in sub-Saharan Africa has been the subject of alarmist media…
Rethinking the weak state paradigm in light of the war on terror: Evidence from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem, Northwestern University Mauritania, straddling West Africa and the Maghrib, could easily be classified as the Sahel…
‘Beyond regime change’: Reflections on Sudan’s ongoing revolution.
Nisrin Elamin, Columbia University The ‘Arab Spring’, the label widely used to describe a wave of popular anti-government uprisings that…
Making Sense of the East African Warscape
Samar Al-Bulushi, University of California, Irvine In January 2020, the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab launched an attack on Manda Bay,…
Magnates, Media, and Mercenaries: How Libya’s conflicts produce transnational networks straddling Africa and the Middle East
Wolfram Lacher, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin [1] War transforms societies and their boundaries. How it…
Introduction: A Transregional Approach to Africa and the Middle East
Hisham Aïdi, Columbia University, Marc Lynch, Director of POMEPS, Zachariah Mampilly, Baruch College Africa and the Middle East have been…