Middle East & Africa

Hamas in Egypt

The issue of Sinai and its jihad is increasingly important, also considering Hezbollah’s new strategy in Southern Lebanon, as well as the current deployment of Iranian,...

The United States in Iraq and the new offensives in the region

Over the last few days, particularly on March 6,  new US troops arrived in Iraq. They in fact arrived in the Iraqi area of Al Anbar,...

Iranians and Iraqis are inseparable

The two nations of Iran and Iraq are bonded together by geography and more importantly religion, especially in the form of Shia Islam. The religious bonds that...

Candide Leguede: Shining a New Light on Women’s Entrepreneurship in Togo

Candide Leguede runs Société ARCANDIA, a company she started nearly twenty years ago which promotes “Made in Togo” artisanal and artistic products.  As an entrepreneur with years...

Radia Garrigues: CEO of an Incubator Providing Gabon’s Youth with Skills for the Future

Radia Garrigues is the CEO of JA Gabon, a member of Junior Achievement Worldwide, one of the largest youth-serving NGOs that provides hands-on learning in entrepreneurship, financial literacy...

The Algerian crisis of March 2019

Since last February 22, Algeria has been shaken by street demonstrations that occur almost simultaneously in all the 48 provinces of the country.  Working on the assumption...

Why Regime Change in Iran is dangerous for America and its allies

Iran is in a deep social and economic crisis. Despite its foreign policy successes in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, the Iranian regime has failed its...

Once the backbone of Middle Eastern protests, ultras are down but not out

Ali Issa Ahmad, a British football fan, who was lingering earlier this year in jail in the United Arab Emirates for wearing a Qatari soccer...

Zarif’s resignation the beginning of the militarization of the Iranian diplomacy?

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif expressed his resignation, a quiet diplomat and a seasoned politician, one of the soft faces of Iran's foreign policy, for what...

Saudi gas export plans shine new light on efforts to isolate Iran

Saudi plans to become a major gas exporter within a decade raise questions about what the real goal of the kingdom’s policy, and by extension that...

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