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North Africa Weekly: December 17, 2025
From protests in Tunisia and Egypt successfully launching the SPNEX satellite to severe flash floods in Morocco and three Sahelian military-led governments announcing regional investment bank
Hafed Al Ghwell • Lana Bleik • Yusuf Can...
Commentary
Kurdish Peace Process Makes Slow Gains, With Regional Ramifications
A major challenge to the peace process involves the future of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish forces in Syria
Kawa Hassan
Commentary
Iran’s Desalination Pipeline Is More Stopgap Than Solution
The project fits a long-standing pattern in Iran of improvisation rather than reform
Umud Shokri
Resource
North Africa Weekly: December 10, 2025
From Sudan’s worsening crisis and increasing jihadist violence in the Sahel to Libya’s evolving energy debates
Hafed Al Ghwell • Lana Bleik • Yusuf Can...
Commentary
Morocco’s Two-Speed Reality
Morocco's development is moving at two speeds, leaving half the country behind, while recent protests reflect a broad intergenerational movement
Safae El Yaaqoubi
Video
Policy Discussion on Charting the EU’s Mediterranean Strategy
Kawa Hassan addresses the new Pact for the Mediterranean at the European Ideas Forum 2025
Kawa Hassan
Commentary
Reality Dose: Libya’s False Unity
Libya’s unity is a political fiction masking entrenched fractures, rival power centers, and a decade of failed state-building
Hafed Al Ghwell
Resource
North Africa Weekly: December 3, 2025
From Egypt’s shifting economic trajectory and Algeria’s renewed geopolitical outreach to intensifying conflict in Sudan and rising insecurity in Mali
Hafed Al Ghwell • Lana Bleik • Yusuf Can...
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Experts
Events
  • Past
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Does a Demographic Transition Promote a Democratic Transition?
  • January 25, 2007
  • Past
  • Event
Revisiting Marshall: Private Sector Development in the Middle East
  • March 3, 2015
  • 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
  • Past
  • Event
The Escalating Shi’a-Sunni Conflict: Assessing Arab Public Attitudes
  • February 18, 2015
  • 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m
  • Past
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The Escalating Shi’a-Sunni Conflict: Assessing The Role Of ISIS
  • December 15, 2014
  • 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.
  • Past
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The Escalating Shi’a-Sunni Conflict: Assessing The Role Of State Actors
  • November 3, 2014
  • 12:30 to 2:00 PM
  • Past
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Iran and the Arab World After the Nuclear Deadline: Possible Scenarios
  • October 23, 2014
  • 9:30 to 11:00 AM
  • Past
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The Escalating Shi’a-Sunni Conflict: Is It About Religion Or Politics?
  • September 16, 2014
  • 9:30 to 11:00 AM
  • Past
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Lessons Learned for Stabilization in Syria
  • June 11, 2014
  • 2:00 - 3:30pm
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