Egypt’s Central Bank proclaimed their foreign reserves reaching the “critical” levels after it had sold about 75 million USD in its first private auct...
Arab Spring and Burma Transitions: Different Societies but Same Hopes and Aspirations
The transitions away from authoritarian rule in North Africa and Burma (also known as Myanmar) have often been compared to one another, highlighting m...
Sinking Susan Rice’s Nomination: What It Could Mean for the U.S. North Africa Policy
When Susan Rice withdrew her name from the consideration for nomination for Secretary of State, she did so largely to save the White House from a cost...
One Year Ends, Another Begins, Expectations Still Great
As 2012 is drawing to a close, The North Africa Post deemed it timely to reflect upon some of the major events that happened over the past twelve mont...
What Future for the North Africa-to-Europe Power Super-Grid?
With the EU aiming to increasingly meet its energy needs from renewable sources – 30 per cent by 2020 and almost 100 per cent by 2050 – a great portio...
A ‘Home-Made’ Model for the Economic Integration in the MENA Region
After decades of elusive quest for a common Arab economic space and EU-promoted trials with the fluky Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Agreement (EU-MFTA...
China –the Indispensable Game- Changer of the Post-Crisis Global Economy
The upshots of the global financial crisis are long to list. In a catchy word, they are condensed in the phrase “shift to the East”. Driven by the inc...
Iran’s Pyrrhic Victory
The one persistent feature of Iranian foreign policy since the toppling of the Shah in 1979 was its rather grandiose optimism about its own ascendance...
The EU and State-Building in Failed States: European Engagement in Afghanistan
Failed states are considered as one of the most potent threats to international peace and security – soft security threats and risks in terms of organ...
FIFM : And the winner is…The Middle East…
The Middle East issue with its wars, crises, attempts, and death toll has been making the headlines for over 60 years, and last week in Marrakesh, the...