Africa and the Middle East Beyond The Divides

Noah Salomon, Carleton College “The Origin of Civilization,” mural image of the Meroe pyramids, al-Zubair Pasha St., Khartoum, post-revolutionary mural…

Federico Donelli, University of Genoa, Genoa Recent political events in the Horn of Africa (HOA) such as the restoration of…

Lina Benabdallah, Wake Forest University In July 2019, a collation of twenty-two countries signed a letter calling on China to…

Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, European Council on Foreign Relations After failing for years to decisively woo Omar al-Bashir to their axis, the…

Hisham Aïdi, Columbia University In the last decade, Morocco and Algeria have attempted a “pivot” to Africa. The “infitah to…

Alexander Thurston, University of Cincinnati For Islamic movements, the Sahara has often been a bridge, rather than a barrier.[i] The…

Alex de Waal, Tufts University If ‘Africa’ straddles the vast desert of the Sahara, the Kenyan historian Ali Mazrui once…

Afifa Ltifi, Cornell University “Liberty must be suppressed until the end of the war in Algeria– until the nation becomes…

Ezgi Guner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Turkey’s recent interest in sub-Saharan Africa has been the subject of alarmist media…