Middle East & North Africa

Demonstrators hold a national flag during a protest demanding the removal of the ruling elite in Algiers, Algeria July 12, 2019. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina - RC123B9B63D0

Middle East & North Africa

Algeria’s uprising: A survey of protesters and the military

Sharan Grewal, M. Tahir Kilavuz, and Robert Kubinec

July 2019

IRANIAN CHILDREN PLAY SOCCER BY HUGE GRAFFITI SHOWING MULLAHS LEADING REVOLUTIONARY GUARD TO WAR AGAINST IRAQ. Iranian children play soccer by a huge grafitti showing mullahs leading the revolutionary guard to the war against Iraq in Tehran 6 June, 1990. SCANNED FROM NEGATIVE REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis - RP1DRICQVKAD

Order from Chaos

Four decades later, did the Iranian revolution fulfill its promises?

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Thursday, July 11, 2019

Palestinian boy Ahmed Baker, 16, sells hot drinks on a mobile cart at the Seaport of Gaza City March 17, 2016. Baker, whose father is unemployed, earns around 20 Shekels ($5.1) a day and he is the sole breadwinner of his family. He hoped to be a doctor before quitting school. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem SEARCH "SALEM LABOUR" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES - GF10000364375

Middle East & North Africa

High unemployment rates among rural youth are destabilizing the Near East and North Africa region

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Shi'ite fighters ride on the back of a truck with their weapons in al-Fatha, northeast of Baiji, October 18, 2015. Iraqi forces backed by Shi'ite militia fighters say they have retaken a mountain palace complex of former President Saddam Hussein from Islamic State fighters, as government forces push ahead on a major offensive against the insurgents. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani - GF10000249718

Order from Chaos

Militias in the Middle East and North Africa: “It’s the governance, stupid!”

Jesse I. Kornbluth

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Reports

Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) are seen in Zumar, Nineveh province, Iraq October 18, 2017. REUTERS/Ari Jalal - RC1E698CF530

Iraq

Pitfalls of the paramilitary paradigm: The Iraqi state, geopolitics, and Al-Hashd al-Shaabi

Vanda Felbab-Brown

June 2019

Iran flag

Iran

Swamped in a triple crisis

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Monday, June 3, 2019

Pakistani religious students attend a lesson at Darul Uloom Haqqania, an Islamic seminary and alma mater of several Taliban leaders, in Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province September 14, 2013. The seminary, founded in 1947, is now one of biggest and most respected Islamic institutions in South Asia. It propagates a hard-line curriculum based on the radical Deobandi strain of Sunni Islam. Picture taken September 14, 2013. To match story PAKISTAN-TALIBAN/ REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION RELIGION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E99F1AX201

Pakistan

Saudi Arabia’s hold on Pakistan

May 2019

(2ndL-R) Khalifa Haftar, the military commander who dominates eastern Libya, Aguila Saleh Issa, president of the eastern Libyan House of Representatives, and Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj during an international conference on Libya at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, May 29, 2018. Etienne Laurent/Pool via Reuters - RC1D67A5ABE0

Libya

Analysis: Peace and justice in Libya’s transition

Noha Aboueldahab

May 6, 2019

People climb flag poles flying Yemen's national flag during a ceremony marking Yemen's Reunification Day, in Sanaa, May 22 ,2016. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi - S1BETFMQVRAB

Yemen

Reclaiming Yemen: The role of the Yemeni professional diaspora

Noha Aboueldahab

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Blog Posts

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Up Front

GCC News Roundup: UN report calls for further investigation into Khashoggi murder (June 1-30)

Monday, July 1, 2019

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrive at Manama's Four Seasons hotel, the venue for the U.S.-hosted "Peace to Prosperity" conference, in Manama, Bahrain, June 25, 2019. REUTERS/Matt Spetalnick - RC1A6E554E00

Order from Chaos

Brookings experts assess White House Middle East economic plan

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Africa in focus

Can the US and Africa prosper together?

Witney Schneidman and Jay Ireland

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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Events

Algeria’s uprising: Protesters and the military

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Investigating the Khashoggi murder: Insights from UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard

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The impact of militias on governance and geopolitics in the Middle East and North Africa

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