Vinciane Joly Master 2 student in international relations at the Sorbonne and with a degree in Arabic (Inalco). Egypt’s Lost War in the Sinai Vinciane Joly · June 2020 For the last eight years, the Egyptian armed forces have been fighting in the Sinai, with little success, against what is at once an Islamist insurrection and a tribal rebellion against the central state. After having failed to eradicate social and economic poverty among the Bedouins of the (…)