Same old wine in a new bottle, an adage that sums up the swift succession at the helm of the Algerian regime with the passing away of the all-powerful...
The Moroccan Exception in the Arab World
King Mohammed VI is carrying out a wide-ranging effort to revive his country’s Jewish heritage. By Yaëlle Azagury and Anouar Majid Ms. Azagury is a wr...
Morocco-EU fisheries Deal: Legal Experts Warn against ECJ Meddling in International Treaties
European legal experts are increasingly warning of the dangers of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) meddling in EU international treaties. This came...
Morocco Shows No Backtracking on Accountability
The decision of King Mohammed VI to fire low performing ministers in implementation of constitutional provisions took observers by surprise. A stateme...
On Algeria’s Fake News Diplomacy
Algeria’s disillusioned diplomacy is apparently resorting to fake news claiming that the SADR separatist entity will be invited to the Africa-EU summi...
Tunisia: Three Tunisian Women among 100 Most Influential Young Africans
Three young Tunisian women have been named among top 100 most influential young Africans by the 2016 African Youth Awards in Ghana for their impactful...
The inconvenient truth : Arab states failure to support Palestinians
Notwithstanding passionate discourses against Western responsibility and “Zionist conspiracy”, commitment to the Palestinian cause has not translated ...
The 70% rule, not American exceptionalism leads to US’s ‘best soccer ever played’
Two of the World Cup’s Round of 16 teams received the homecoming reserved for champions, even though they exited with the final week of the tour...
Can Jomaa’s Caretaker Government Deliver Economic Reform?
When Mehdi Jomaa assumed the role of Tunisia’s interim Prime Minister in late January, he did not know how disastrous the true economic condition of h...
Nile Dispute and the Dilemma of National Approaches
Amid deep political turmoil, there is a mounting concern in Egypt as Ethiopia forges ahead with its plan to build the $4.8 billion Grand Renaissance D...