Country Report: Libya
Instability has plagued Libya since the Arab Spring, allied invasion, and subsequent ousting of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011. Libya is host to...
Genocide Watch
Apr 28, 2021
Germany Pays for Europe’s Hypocrisy Over Morocco
The EU’s most powerful member can’t signal virtue over Western Sahara while doing business with Rabat. Relations between Morocco and...
Genocide Watch
Mar 5, 2021
Timestream: Sudan's Genocides
Genocide Watch staff have published the twelfth Timestream in a series of critical genocides in the world. This Timestream highlights...
Genocide Watch
Feb 2, 2021
Country Report: Egypt December 2020
Coptic Christians praying for the victims of a terrorist attack. (Nurphoto via Getty Images) Egypt has been under an Emergency Law since...
Genocide Watch
Dec 10, 2020
United States: Embargo Arms to the United Arab Emirates
UAE flag with Dubai skyline © 2019 Getty Images (Washington) – The United States should halt proposed weapons sales to the United Arab...
Human Rights Watch
Dec 2, 2020
Caliphate in Retreat
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb lost its Kabylia stronghold through its multiple mistakes. On May 23, Algeria’s Defense Ministry...
Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck
Jun 8, 2018
U.S. Holocaust museum signs cooperation agreement with Morocco archives
The Archives of Morocco in Rabat. (COURTESY) (JNS) The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., signed a cooperation...
Jewish Journal
May 17, 2018
Authoritarianism as usual
‘Why do authoritarian regimes love elections?’ asked sociologist Amro Ali, referring to the assured reelection of Egypt’s incumbent...
Le Monde
Apr 27, 2018
The Youth Movement in Sahrawi Refugee Camps
Refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, have long been run by the Polisario movement, which seeks an independent state in Western Sahara, also...
International Crisis Group 1
Apr 26, 2018
Libya’s Foreign Militias
The presence of foreign armed groups in Libya’s south poses an increasing threat to local security and regional political ties. On March...
Genocide Watch
Apr 10, 2018
Egyptian prosecutors seek death sentence for photographer
Prosecutors have requested a death sentence for Mahmoud Abou Zeid, an Egyptian photojournalist known as Shawkan who has been held for...
Reporters without Borders 1
Mar 7, 2018
Tackling the MENA Region’s Intersecting Conflicts
By Joost Hiltermann What's new? Since the 2011 Arab uprisings, conflicts of divergent origins across the Middle East have intersected...
International Crisis Group 1
Feb 13, 2018
