After the overthrow of Libya’s dictator Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi in 2011, the country rapidly slid into widespread anarchy and violence… Read more
An organization that can seize about 1,000 hostages in the middle of Algeria, a country whose regime has been so tough on radical Islamists, is not dead… Continue reading
Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure followed his annual formal New Year,s greeting to the diplomatic corps with a lengthy private discourse on the problems he is facing in the north of Mali… Continue reading
Malian newspaper l’Independant carried a front page news story stating that Mali’s Government released four AQIM detainees… Continue reading
One reason the term “Arab Spring” is a misnomer is because of the participation of non-Arabs, including Kurds in Iraq and Syria as well as Berbers in Morocco and Libya… Continue reading
Now the initial euphoria about the Arab revolts has subsided, it’s clear the ‘Arab Spring’ will not bring a liberal, secular, Western (or Islamic) model of democracy to the Arab world… Continue reading
What do you tell soldiers who are risking their lives on Middle East battlefields about the people they are fighting for and against simultaneously?… Continue reading
Iranian speculations on Egypt’s Islamists: Shi’ite-style revolutionaries or Turkish-style democrats?
There have been various speculations in Iranian press on the significance of the Islamists’ victory and the nature of the Islamist faction in Egypt… Continue reading
In recent years, small groups of Moroccan Berber activists, particularly younger people, have challenged… Continue reading
Organized crime, such as kidnapping, terrorism and drug, weapon and human trafficking, had been expanding for many years in the Sahara region… Continue reading
Allow me to salute the martyrs and youths of Tunisia’s peaceful revolution, a revolution for freedom and dignity that offered to the world an Arab Spring… Continue reading
No efforts should be spared for dialogue and communication to assist the Saharan people to achieve their right to self-determination… Continue reading
The Arab world is witnessing profound events and transformations… Continue reading
Official release of President Obama’s Middle East and North Africa speech… Continue reading
There’s some controversy about President Barack Obama’s Passover message. The key passage is this… Continue reading
Here’s an (self)interview by Barry Rubin with Barry Rubin about what’s happening in Libya and U.S. foreign policy… Continue reading
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was accused Monday of tacitly propping up dictatorship in north Africa and of botched diplomacy in France’s ambivalent response to… Continue reading
Deeply unflattering reports from the US embassy in Tunis, released by WikiLeaks, make no bones about the state of the small Maghreb country, widely considered one of the most repressive in… Continue reading
When an unidentified plane crashed into the desert in northern Mali in November 2009, it was immediately suspected of smuggling cocaine from Latin America. The west African route to the lucrative European markets had been growing in… Continue reading
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