August 16, 2022
Kais Saied’s dismemberment of Tunisia’s democracy encouraged a view that the country’s politics are battleground between authoritarianism and democracy.
July 6, 2022
Announcing it would cease production after nearly 30 years, Liberte’s closure in April was decried by journalists, scholars, and politicians in Algeria and out.
June 27, 2022
From security to economics and international influence, the countries of the Maghreb are deeply interested in what is happening in Libya.
June 21, 2022
In this exclusive interview, Andrew Farrand describes what he perceives are the primary barriers stopping those in the West from getting a better understanding of Algeria.
June 20, 2022
In the face of Algeria’s migrant dilemma, what is needed is a more coherent model for migration policy, one capable of balancing humanitarian with security needs.
March 18, 2022
In North Africa, fallout from Ukraine is being framed in terms of its impacts on stability. Useful to an extent, it is nonetheless important not to lose sight of the significance of Ukraine as an ‘ideological moment’ for the region.
March 11, 2022
In the aftermath of Kais Saied’s seizure of power, international commentators readily turned to Egypt as a comparable post- Arab Spring democracy overturned. In so doing, they reveal some of the limitations with how analysts engage the Maghreb as a region.
February 17, 2022
Recounting his personal experience as both expert and Libyan in the midst of the 2011 revolution, Dr. Fetouri's account exposes the flaws of pursuing good-guy-bad-guy narratives that dangerously oversimplify a complex and poorly understood part of the world.
January 18, 2022
Placing Algeria-Morocco tension within a wider system of Middle Eastern conflict is important, but hides elements specific to North Africa’s decolonisation politics.
November 5, 2021
Heightened anxiety about the inability of traditional powers to exert control over North Africa feeds into narratives of disintegrating Western hegemony and the rise of regional actors. But behind the headlines is there a real qualitative shift in North Africa’s politics of neo-colonialism?