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…
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…