Michele Dunne has prepared a short video on the dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt over Ethiopia’s construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Addis Ababa has just completed the dam and is now ready to fill it. In October 2017, Dunne and Katherine Pollock had written in Diwan about what was at stake. In November 2019, Andrew Miller examined whether the United States might intervene to help resolve the disagreement, pointing out how different timeframes to fill the dam could affect water supplies in Egypt, and therefore stability in that water-dependent country.
Water Woes
An explainer on the disagreement provoked by construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
More work from Diwan
The Europeans Wake UpBut growing hostility to Israeli actions is too late to save the West from the lasting damage of Gaza.
On Reading Herzl in BeirutOr how the absence of insights about the Israeli “other” is a hindrance for the Palestinian liberation struggle.
Reading Tripoli’s Tea LeavesMunicipal elections in the city may be a harbinger of developments in the Sunni community.
Syria’s Druze Stand AloneAs the U.S. lifts sanctions and embraces the country’s rulers, minorities are bracing for what comes next.
- Rabeh Ghadban
Minority Retort in SyriaThe country’s Druze community, divided and vulnerable, finds itself in the midst of a regional maelstrom.
