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 (…) Yemen. The Impossible Way Out of the War Helen Lackner , May 2020 In the early months of 2020, the already disastrous situation in Yemen worsened further, far from the eyes of the world, which was almost exclusively concerned with the Covid-19 pandemic. The huthi military offensive, the (…) Support for Orient XXI Under the Shadow of Covid19 May 2020 Much has been written about the present time, the dramas, our astonishment faced with a pandemic we never thought could happen, the deep transformations our (…) Op-ed The Lessons of the Arab Springs Charles Thépaut, May 2020 Arab countries still have fewer cases of Covid-19 than the United States, Europe or China, but they also have fewer policy options as they have not fully recovered from the “Arab springs”. Local and international actors should not merely (…) The Painful History of Epidemics in Saudi Arabia Philippe Pétriat, May 2020 For Saudi Arabia, the Covid-19 crisis is just another episode in a long series of viruses which have struck the Kingdom since the Spanish flu of 1919. When Saudi Arabia announced its first Covid-19 case on 2 (…) COVID-19: A Dual Punishment for Palestinian and Arab Prisoners May 2020 More than 150 personalities from the Arab world call for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and prisoners of conscience in (…) Virus, Dance of Death and Social Control Christian Jouret, May 2020 Covid-19 is a godsend for the media, monopolising the news. But we seem to forget that there have been pandemics throughout history and that political regimes have always taken advantage of them to tighten their grip on society. (…) The Threat of a Water Shortage in the Maghreb Ali Chibani, May 2020 The availability of running water in North Africa has diminished by 60% over the past 40 years. The rainfall deficit due to global warming, poor maintenance of the water network and the inadequacy of wastewater (…) [Reporting The Planned Theft of Qalandia, Jerusalem’s Forgotten Airport Laurent Perpigna Iban, May 2020 Until 1967, the Jerusalem airport was a doorway to the world for Palestinians. Since the second Intifada, it has been definitively closed down. This little-known site is in the news again (…) Iran. In Chabahar, Fear of the Virus Reduces Smuggling Elsa Perret, April 2020 A large part of the population of Sistan-Balochistan, in the south-east of Iran, engages in informal trade with its Emirati and Pakistani neighbours. However, the explosion in the number of Iranians (…) Russian Military Companies. Wagner, How Many Divisions? Emmanuel Dreyfus, April 2020 Implicated in Moscow’s interventions in Ukraine since 2014 and in Syria since 2015, Russian military companies have more recently shown up in Libya and in several sub-Saharan African countries. The (…) Lebanon. The Political Class Saved (provisionally?) by Covid-19 Jim Muir , April 2020 Even before the Covid-19 lockdown, Lebanon was in the grip of a severe economic, financial and social crisis. If the spread of the epidemic seems to be under control, it is to be expected, (…) 0 | ... | 300 | 312 | 324 | 336 | 348 | 360 | 372 | 384 | 396 | ... | 588