[Reporting Yemen. The Socotra Archipelago Threatened by the Civil War Quentin Müller, August 2021 Cut off from the rest of the world for many years and preserved from the turmoil in Yemen, the Socotra Archipelago is gradually losing its peaceful reputation. As in all the Southern provinces, the (…) Bahrain Takes Advantage of the Sanitary Crisis to Step Up its Repression of the Opposition Léa Luszez, August 2021 Though Bahrain has often been accused of serious violations of human rights, the Covid-19 pandemic, which has already caused 1,384 deaths (15 (…) Editorial Afghanistan, One Defeat Breeds Another Alain Gresh, August 2021 August 15, 2021 Kabul has fallen, and it took the Taliban only a few weeks to sweep away the Afghan army, which had been financed and trained by the United States for twenty years. As a reminder, the communist regime had survived (…) Tunisia: Inevitable Upheaval Fraught With Dangers Thierry Brésillon, August 2021 To kick over the table and grant himself full authority, Kais Saied claimed the State was in “imminent danger.” Considering the in the country, this was a reasonable claim. But for the moment, the meaning of the (…) An Economic Transition Fraught With Danger for the Petro-States of the Gulf Sebastian Castelier, July 2021 Dissociating the price per barrel from the Gulf economies, addicted to petro-dollars, is a risky affair for the ruling families. The attempts at “adjustment programmes” (…) Turkey. The power structure’s crackdown on the “enemy within” Jean Michel Morel, July 2021 At the same time as Turkey develops a foreign policy of all-out interventionism, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s regime has launched a campaign against the (…) [Reporting Egypt. Al-Qarah Relies On Solar Energy to Pump Water Omaïma Ismaïl, Nada Arafat, July 2021 Farmers of the village of Al-Qarah in southern Egypt have replaced expensive diesel with solar energy to pump water from wells to irrigate their fields. The government, however, is not interested in (…) Israel-Lebanon. The Maritime Borders of Discord Doha Chams, July 2021 Despite the American relaunch, the negotiations on the maritime borders between Beirut and Tel Aviv remain suspended.While Israel wants to nibble away as much land as possible, the Lebanese leaders, divided on (…) Yemen. Unfiltered Neoliberal Policies Have Worsened the Water Crisis Helen Lackner , June 2021 Water resources are drying up in Yemen, a country ravaged by war for six years. Climate change is to blame, and also—above all—an agricultural policy that has favoured large (…) US Military Destabilised by Climate Change in the Middle East Bruce Stanley, June 2021 Weather disturbances hampered American troops, especially in the Gulf States. In addition to the weakened health of the personnel, the equipment (…) Water Stories from the Maghreb and the Middle East Médias indépendants sur le monde arabe , June 2021 As soon as we begin investigating the issue of water in the Middle East and the Maghreb, we find that everyone agrees about its “rarity,” from the experts with international organisations to the media pundits. A (…) Water in Tunisia: Poverty Line and Impoverishment Plans Mohamed Rami Abdelmoula, June 2021 It is a commonplace to say that a water shortage threatens Tunisia. What is more at stake is the evolution of its uses and the distribution of the resource. However, intensive agriculture for export (…) 0 | ... | 168 | 180 | 192 | 204 | 216 | 228 | 240 | 252 | 264 | ... | 552