North Africa

 
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Egypt’s Economy Two Years After Mubarak
    Uri Dadush March 1, 2013 PBS NewsHour

    Two years since the outbreak of democratic revolutions in Egypt, the economic situation in the region remains precarious. Egypt's economy struggles to grapple with high levels of unemployment, decreasing reserves, a widening fiscal deficit, and costly, yet inefficient, subsidies.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Conflict in Mali
    Anouar Boukhars February 1, 2013 CSPAN

    The conflict in Mali has its roots in regional struggles, particularly in Algeria, against violent Islamist groups.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Islamists in the Sahel
    Anouar Boukhars January 17, 2013 WBEZ's Worldview

    The conflict in northern Mali cannot be solved by a military solution alone. Any effort to end the violence will have to utilize diplomatic and political components to address the grievances of the groups that have taken up arms.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    As Egypt's Constitution Waits in Limbo, Mohammed Morsi Grabs More Power
    Nathan Brown November 23, 2012 NewsHour

    Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has assumed additional presidential powers, leading to protests largely led by non-Islamic groups.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    The Post-American Middle East
    Marwan Muasher October 19, 2012 Al-Jazeera

    Given diminished U.S. influence in the Middle East, Washington should no longer try to pick winners and losers in the region and instead support democratic transitions to pluralistic societies.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Turkey, Syria, and the Iranian Rial
    Moisés Naím October 5, 2012 Diane Rehm Show

    Iran is facing a powerful cocktail of sanctions and bad economic policymaking by the Iranians themselves, resulting in shortages on basic staples and popular protests.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    President Morsi's Effect on Egyptian Foreign Policy
    Marina Ottaway September 27, 2012 KPCC Southern California Public Radio

    Despite fears in the United States, Egyptian foreign policy under President Morsi has been marked by continuity rather than a fundamental paradigm shift.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Behind The Protests in Libya
    Frederic Wehrey September 26, 2012 Kojo Nnamdi Show

    Protests in Libya sparked an order to disband the country's rogue militias, but this is only the first step to security in Libya. Good governance and building an army are the long term solutions to Libya's challenges.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    How Big a Threat is al-Qaeda in Libya?
    Frederic Wehrey September 24, 2012 CNN International

    The ultimate solution to the security challenges in Libya resides in improved governance and the construction of a cohesive national army.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Witnessing a Battle of Ideas in the Arab World
    Marwan Muasher September 13, 2012 PBS' NewsHour

    Although tainted by the recent violence in the region, the democratic transitions sparked by the Arab uprisings cannot be measured in days or months, but in decades.

     

Carnegie Guide to Egypt's Elections

Carnegie Experts on North Africa

  • Lahcen Achy
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Middle East Center

    Achy is an economist with expertise in development, institutional economics, trade, and labor and a focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

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  • Anouar Boukhars
    Nonresident Scholar
    Middle East Program

    Boukhars is a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program. He is an assistant professor of international relations at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland.

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  • Nathan Brown
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Middle East Program

    Brown, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, is a distinguished scholar and author of six well-received books on Arab politics.

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  • Sarah Chayes
    Senior Associate
    Democracy and Rule of Law Program
    South Asia Program

    Chayes, formerly special adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is an expert in South Asia policy, kleptocracy and anticorruption, and civil-military relations.

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  • Muhammad Faour
    Nonresident Scholar
    Middle East Center

    Faour is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on education reform in Arab countries with an emphasis on citizenship education.

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  • Ariel (Eli) Levite
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Levite was the principal deputy director general for policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission from 2002 to 2007.

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  • Marwan Muasher
    Vice President for Studies

    Muasher is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment, where he oversees the Endowment’s research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East.

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  • Paul Salem
    Director and Senior Associate
    Middle East Center

    Salem is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon. He works and publishes on the regional and international relations of the Middle East as well as issues of political development and democratization in the Arab world.

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  • Paul Schulte
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program and Carnegie Europe

    Schulte is a nonresident senior associate in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program and at Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on the future of deterrence, nuclear strategy, nuclear nonproliferation, cybersecurity, and their political implications.

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  • Stephen Tankel
    Nonresident Scholar
    South Asia Program

    Tankel is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, where his research focuses on insurgency, terrorism, and the evolution of nonstate armed groups.

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  • Frederic Wehrey
    Senior Associate
    Middle East Program

    Wehrey’s research focuses on political reform and security issues in the Arab Gulf states, Libya, and U.S. policy in the Middle East more broadly. He was previously a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation.

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