The Amazighs in North Africa: Politics, Society, and Culture
Their presence stretches from the Canary Islands of Spain to Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.
Where Does Libya Fit in Biden’s Foreign Policy Priorities?
Read: Has the Libyan Civil War Come to an End?The United States maintains important bilateral relations with foreign patrons on both sides of the Libyan divide, namely Turkey, UAE, Egypt, France, and Russia, and is working to apply pressure on these actors to withdraw from Libya’s conflict by pushing all parties to respect the UN arms embargo, which the UN Panel of Experts recently argued was “totally ineffective.
Can Arms Bring Turkey and Saudi Arabia Together?
These exports also facilitated the Turkish exports to Egypt (BMC-Ejder), Kuwait (Ejder), Oman (FNSS-Pars), Qatar (BMC-Ejder Yalçın, Amazon, KIRPI II), and Tunisia (BMC-Ejder Yalçın, Vuran) with procurement deals worth more than US$2 billion.
China-Iran Treaty: Hydrocarbons Bring the Old Friends Closer
The other parties with which China has cultivated closer economic ties – Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Israel, Egypt, and Turkey – have less of a sanguine perspective.
America’s Hyper-Surveillance of Muslims Targets Our Religious Identity
For example, NYPD agents would document how often Muslims students prayed during school trips, which Egyptian businesses shut their doors for daily prayers, which restaurants would show al-Jazeera, and which Newark businesses sold halal products and alcohol.
Turkey and Greece: Exploratory Talks under the Shadow of Third Parties
In 2003, the Greek Cypriot leadership signed a maritime deal with Egypt for gas exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean.
AfCFTA and Pan-Africanism: Do China and the US Have a Role in the Agreement?
In East Africa, there is an ongoing conflict between Somalia and Kenya over a maritime border dispute, rising tension between Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), and a border crisis between Sudan and Ethiopia, while Nigeria in West Africa recently opened its land borders with neighbors which were closed for 16 months.
The Islamic Republic of Iran Forty-Two Years Later: Goals Fulfilled?
Nonetheless, the growing presence of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the region, the emergence of Lebanese Hezbollah in the early 1980s with Iran’s full backing, and the unwillingness of some Arab regimes including, but not limited to, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, for a rapprochement with a “revolution-exporting Iran” undermined the prospects for normalization throughout the 1990s.
Libyans Themselves Are Best Suited to Handle Their Problems
In Burgat’s opinion, the UAE seems to be fighting its opponents rather than acting as a regional leader in the place of Egypt.
Radicalization and Religion: How It Happens?
Instead, looking at the ways religious belonging and behaving intersect with political identities and behaviors solve the puzzle of apparently very secular projects leading to political battles over Islamically correct social behaviors, which are currently happening not only in Egypt, Iraq, Sudan to name a few but also India, Myanmar or Israel.
France under Macron: All Citizens Can Criticize the Republic Except Muslims
It is forbidden to criticize the current Egyptian government that staged a military coup against the Muslim Brotherhood, which came to power through democratic elections for the first time in Egypt's history.
Will the Biden Administration Bring the Saudi-Emirati Partnership to Account?
Another issue was the neglected and stalled military procurement deals worth over $130 billion as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates were struggling with the outcomes of the Arab Spring.
How Do the Gulf Countries View the PKK?
Turkey embraced the Arab Spring and developed cordial relations with the democratizing post-revolution governments in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya.
How Does China View the Muslim World?
In a quest for geopolitical advantage, China is casting its lot with the most despised reactionaries of Islamdom—the predatory generals of Egypt and Syria, the feuding tyrants of the Persian Gulf, and the fossilized police states of Central Asia.
Army to Protect Pakistan’s Troubled Ties with Saudi Arabia
Many in Pakistan believe that the Saudis and Emiratis do not provide them the kind of economic support they have been providing to Egypt, especially after bankrolling the coup against the democratically elected government of Mohamed Morsi.
Seeing Ramallah from above: In Memory of Mourid Barghouti, Legendary Palestinian Poet and Novelist
In 1963, Barghouti left Palestine to pursue his undergraduate studies at the University of Cairo in Egypt.
Government of National Unity: Where Does Libya Go from Here?
Indeed, how Egypt responds to seeing its preferred candidate Saleh lose will be consequential.
Early Elections: Where Is Kosovo Heading?
Provided that it also gets the support of the ten seats reserved in the constitution for the non-Serbian minorities (Ashkali, Bosnian, Egyptian, Roma, and Turks), in practice, this means that for the first time since independence a mainstream Kosovar party will be able to form a government without the support of another mainstream party.
All-Out-War between Ethiopia and Sudan on the Doorstep?
These problems heat up when there are developments in the region, such as the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam with Egypt (GERD), and calm down when the disputes are resolved.
Why Did the United States Add Israel to CENTCOM?
The Command unit coordinates operations stretching from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen in the West to Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, and Pakistan in the East.
