In an interview from Algiers, Dalia Ghanem describes protests against a fifth term for Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
Despite cooperation, don’t expect a more substantive partnership between the European Union and the Arab League.
The EAF has been a slumbering giant since the late 1970s but appears to be awakening. Increasing threats, pressure from Washington, and Sisi's confidence all play a part.
U.S. judges recently accepted an appeal that clears the way for the courts to hear claims against tax-exempt American organizations and prominent donors involved in Israeli settlements.
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is bringing a new form of totalitarianism to Egypt.
More than half a decade after the collapse of the Libyan state and the severe destabilization of Mali, regional policymakers are still seeking the appropriate principles and patterns of management that can foster a modicum of stability in the broader regional security architecture linking the Maghreb and the Sahel.
Constitutional amendments in Egypt are designed to reconfigure authoritarianism in the country.
IranWire’s Natasha Schmidt discusses why Iran’s foreign minister Mohammed Javad Zarif may have thrown in the towel.
The United States should make clear in public and private that amendments to the Egyptian constitution intended to keep Sisi in power beyond 2022 meet neither Sisi’s own commitments to his citizens nor the expectations of the American government.