The papers, published in this collection, ranged widely over issues connecting West Africa, the Horn, the Sahel and North Africa thematically, politically, militarily and culturally. The goal of this volume is to get American political science to break down the barriers between academic subfields defined by regions and open the fields to new questions raised by scholars from and across Africa and the Middle East.
Introduction: A Transregional Approach to Africa and the Middle East
Hisham Aïdi, Marc Lynch, Zachariah Mampilly
And the Twain Shall Meet: Connecting Africa and the Middle East
Hisham Aïdi, Marc Lynch, Zachariah Mampilly
Sudan’s Revolution
‘Beyond regime change’: Reflections on Sudan’s ongoing revolution
Nisrin El-Amin
The Great Game of the UAE and Saudi Arabia in Sudan
Jean-Baptiste Gallopin
What Lies Beneath the Sands: Archaeologies of Presence in Revolutionary Sudan
Noah Salomon
Warscapes
Making Sense of the East African Warscape
Samar Al-Bulushi
Wolfram Lacher
Cross-Regional Engagements
Determinants of Middle East states involvement in the Horn of Africa
Federico Donelli
Lina Benabdallah
The Scalar Politics of Turkey’s Pivot to Africa
Ezgi Guner
Identity Movements
National Identity in the Afro-Arab Periphery: Ethnicity, Indigeneity and (anti)Racism in Morocco
Hisham Aïdi
Black Tunisians and the Pitfalls of Bourguiba’s Homogenization Project
Afifa Ltifi
Islamist Movements
Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem
Why Are There Few Islamist Parties South of the Sahara?
Alexander Thurston
Concluding Reflections on Africa and the Middle East
Alexander de Waal