Adel Abdel Ghafar

A Chinese worker uses the elevator of the 270-metre-high minaret at the construction site of the new Great Mosque of Algiers, called Djemaa El Djazair, which is being built by the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), and overseen by Algeria's National Agency for Realization and Management (ANERGEMA) in Algiers, Algeria February 7, 2017. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - RC190C8B5940

Beijing strengthens its presence in the Maghreb

Adel Abdel Ghafar and Anna L. Jacobs

Monday September 9, 2019

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Beijing calling: Assessing China’s growing footprint in North Africa

Adel Abdel Ghafar and Anna L. Jacobs

Monday, September 23, 2019

What Brookings experts are saying about the two-year anniversary of the Gulf crisis

Omar H. Rahman, Noha Aboueldahab, Zach Vertin, Ali Fathollah-Nejad, Nader Kabbani, Ranj Alaaldin, Galip Dalay, Adel Abdel Ghafar, and Yasmina Abouzzohour

Monday, June 3, 2019

Cover: The European Union and North Africa

The European Union and North Africa

Edited by Adel Abdel Ghafar

2019

Algeria at a crossroads: What will the future bring?

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM AST

A demonstrator carries a sign as teachers and students take part in a protest demanding immediate political change in Algiers, Algeria March 13, 2019. The sign reads: "The law should be like death, which spares no one". REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - RC1D6736BA50

Lessons for Algeria from the 2011 Egyptian uprising

Adel Abdel Ghafar and Anna L. Jacobs

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Morocco's Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri (R) and his Saudi counterpart Prince Saud al-Faisal sign an agreement during the 11th Moroccan-Saudi joint Commission in Rabat February 10, 2011. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz is alive and in "excellent shape," the Saudi foreign minister said on Thursday after Rumors about the king's health triggered a spike in the price of oil. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal (MOROCCO - Tags: POLITICS ROYALS) - GM1E72B057701

Morocco-Saudi relations: Trouble amongst royals?

Adel Abdel Ghafar and Anna L. Jacobs

Friday, March 1, 2019

French President Emmanuel Macron, Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, Khalifa Haftar, the military commander who dominates eastern Libya, and the participants of the International Conference on Libya listen to a verbal agreement between the various parties regarding the organization of a democratic election this year at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, May 29, 2018. Etienne Laurent/Pool via Reuters - RC150A52E560

Empowered decentralization: A city-based strategy for rebuilding Libya

The Brookings Institution

Monday, February 11, 2019

In this report, experts argue for a new U.S. approach to Libya that centers on the concept of reinvigorated American engagement.

French President Emmanuel Macron, Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, Khalifa Haftar, the military commander who dominates eastern Libya, and the participants of the International Conference on Libya listen to a verbal agreement between the various parties regarding the organization of a democratic election this year at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, May 29, 2018. Etienne Laurent/Pool via Reuters - RC150A52E560

Empowered decentralization: A city-based strategy for rebuilding Libya

John R. Allen, Hady Amr, Daniel L. Byman, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Jeffrey Feltman, Alice Friend, Jason Fritz, Adel Abdel Ghafar, Bruce Jones, Mara Karlin, Karim Mezran, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Federica Saini Fasanotti, Landry Signé, Arturo Varvelli, Frederic Wehrey, and Tarik M. Yousef

Monday, February 11, 2019

Saad al-Kaabi, Minister of State for Energy Affairs, speaks during a news conference in Doha, Qatar, December 3, 2018. REUTERS/Eric Knecht - RC18DCFC5890

Qatar breaks up with OPEC: It’s not you, it’s me

Samantha Gross and Adel Abdel Ghafar

Wednesday, December 5, 2018