The COVID-19 Pandemic in North Africa and the Middle East

Sally Sharif, The Graduate Center, City University of New York Iran’s President, Hassan Rouhani, has said on multiple occasions since…

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Diana Galeeva, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University Large states with big populations and territory, such as the US, China and…

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Matthew Hedges, Durham University Unlike traditional kinetic security threats, the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has clearly levelled vulnerabilities across GCC society.…

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Elham Fakhro, International Crisis Group In late February, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman announced the first cases of the…

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Kristin Diwan, AGSIW The Coronavirus pandemic is proving a severe challenge for governments, testing their ability to anticipate, mobilize resources,…

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Guy Burton, Vesalius College China has been an early partner in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East. Initially…

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Ruth Hanau Santini, Università L’Orientale, Naples On March 23rd, 2020, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged warring parties…

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Justin Schon, University of Florida Coronavirus is spreading like wildfire. As of March 31, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center…

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Alex Thurston, University of Cincinnati On April 1, Saudi Arabian authorities requested that “all Muslims around the world” delay making…

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Adam Hoffman, Tel Aviv University The global need to respond to the spread of the COVID-19 virus played out in…

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