Middle East & North Africa

Nurse Beryl Negesa wears a protective suit before entering a field hospital builtÊon a soccer stadium in Machakos, as the number of confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases continues to rise in Kenya, July 23, 2020. Picture taken July 23, 2020. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

The unfinished agenda of financing Africa’s COVID-19 response

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Vera Songwe, Tidjane Thiam, Donald Kaberuka, Trevor Manuel, Abderrahmane Benkhalfa, and Strive Masiyiwa

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat, U.S. President's senior adviser Jared Kushner and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash hold a meeting in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates August 31, 2020. Government Press Office (GPO)/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY

GCC News Roundup: UAE, Israel normalize ties, Qatar reforms labor laws (August 1-31)

Monday, September 7, 2020

Shop agent use handgel for clients during the first opning of the shops after the lockdown in Tunis, Tunisia on May 11, 2020. With the health ban in its first phase (from 4 to 24 May) entering its second week, the commercial movement in the capital resumed its activity in a significant and significant way by recovering the activity of selling ready-made clothes and shoes and the rest of the other commercial activities. Since the early hours of Monday morning, most shops selling ready-made clothes and shoes have opened their doors to the public amid strict precautions to prevent the spread of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19), despite Tunisia's relative control of this global pandemic. (Photo by Mohamed Krit/ Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Governance in the Arab region: Experts discuss public responses to COVID-19

Adel Abdellatif, Ellen Hsu, Robert P. Beschel Jr., Bessma Momani, Michael Robbins, Rahel M. Schomaker, Ishac Diwan, Theodosia Rossi, Nader Kabbani, Khalid Abu-Ismail, and Vladimir Hlasny

Thursday, September 3, 2020

Women workers inspect shoes at a Bata shoe factory in Abuja, Nigeria January 13, 2020. Picture taken January 13, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Figure of the week: The AfCFTA’s effects on trade and wages in Africa

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Muslims walk inside Sheikh Zayed mosque in Abu Dhabi April 7, 2009. The mosque, one of the world's largest, is named after Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan the founder and first president of the UAE who is also buried there. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES SOCIETY RELIGION IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE)

Using religion for geopolitical ends in the Gulf disputes between Abu Dhabi and Qatar

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Monday, August 31, 2020

Hand out photo dated August 24, 2020 of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) executes maneuvering drills with Greek Navy warship Kortenaer FF Class Aegean (F 460) off the coast of Crete, in the Mediterranean Sea. Tension is simmering in the waters of the Eastern Mediterranean as Greece and Turkey, NATO allies but historic rivals, inch toward a possible military confrontation that could end up engulfing the region. Naval vessels from both countries made a show of force in the contested region of the Eastern Mediterranean this week as a race for gas and oil reserves adds a new point of friction to old disputes. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Louis Thompson Staats IV via ABACAPRESS.COM

The new, great, dangerous game in the eastern Mediterranean

Federica Saini Fasanotti

Friday, August 28, 2020

Palestine and the Arab World: A relationship in crisis?

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM AST

Pakistan's Army Chief of Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa is welcomed by Saudi Arabia's Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia August 17, 2020. Picture taken August 17, 2020. Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

The Pakistan-Saudi Arabia relationship hits a bump in the road

Monday, August 24, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the damage at the site of a massive explosion in Beirut port, Lebanon August 17, 2020. REUTERS/Aziz Taher/File Photo

Lebanon needs a new start

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Members of the NYPD Counterterrorism unit monitor a Blues Lives Matter rally in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, on July 11, 2020. (Photo by Gabriele Holtermann/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Counterterrorism in a time of COVID

Daniel L. Byman and Andrew Amunson

Thursday, August 20, 2020