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A bus travels towards Tripoli by the newly-reopened coastal road which was cut between the cities of Misrata and Sirte, near Ras Lanuf, Libya August 10, 2021. Picture taken August 10, 2021. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

Libya’s peace process: What’s at stake for the Maghreb, 10 years after Gadhafi’s overthrow

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Thursday, August 19, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden SPEAKS with Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Treat Iraq’s Iran-aligned militias like ISIS

Friday, July 30, 2021

Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita speaks during a visit by Israeli envoys to Rabat, Morocco, December 22, 2020. Picture taken December 22, 2020. REUTERS/Shereen Talaat

Israel, Africa, and Libya: Morocco’s foreign policy trump cards

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Syrian artist Khaled Barakeh, 44, stands amid his installation "The Muted Demonstration" outside a Koblenz court during the first trial against suspected members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's security services for crimes against humanity, in Koblenz, Germany, July 1, 2020. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

How Western policymakers can engage the new Arab diasporas

Noha Aboueldahab

Friday, July 16, 2021

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 25, 2021. Majdi Mohammed/Pool via REUTERS

For Washington and the Palestinians, old policy is no substitute for sound policy

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

United States President George H.W. Bush speaks by telephone to US Secretary of State James A. Baker, III after the Secretary's first meeting with Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz of Iraq at the White House in Washington, DC on January 9, 1991. Photo by Carol T. Powers / White House via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Imperfect allies and non-state actors: Lessons from the 1991 no-fly zone in Iraq

Friday, May 28, 2021

Man receives vaccine in Morocco. Source: Reuters

One year of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa: The fate of the ‘best performers’

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Monday, March 22, 2021

Moroccan protesters hold up posters of Maati Monjib, a Moroccan professor of political history, to support him during a demonstration in the capital, Rabat, October 21, 2015. Monjib started a second hunger strike last Wednesday after authorities banned him from boarding a plane to Norway for an international conference on journalism in Lillehammer. The sign reads, "Even if you use repression, your intimidation is useless". REUTERS/Stringer

The arrest of Maati Monjib and the continued retreat of human rights in Morocco

Adel Abdel Ghafar

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

People rise hands during a protest near the Prime Minister's office in Amman, Jordan June 6, 2018. REUTERS/ Ammar Awad

Heavy lies the crown: The survival of Arab monarchies, 10 years after the Arab Spring

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Monday, March 8, 2021

FILE PHOTO: The Committee to Protect Journalists and other press freedom activists hold a candlelight vigil in front of the Saudi Embassy to mark the anniversary of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul, Wednesday evening in Washington, U.S., October 2, 2019. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger/File Photo

GCC News Roundup: US report finds Saudi crown prince approved Khashoggi murder, Gulf states impose new restrictions to stem virus surge (February 1-28)

Monday, March 8, 2021