A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
Though members of Algerian militias have been demobilized or integrated into state institutions, there is grumbling.
Rabat has heightened its support for Sahel countries, hoping to make gains on a number of levels.
A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
Arab armed forces are recruiting more females, who nevertheless continue to face a glass ceiling.
A recent cabinet reshuffle in Tunisia may well have momentarily saved Prime Minister Youssef Chahed’s position.
Many children of jihadis in Algeria are being denied an identity, education, and much more.
Why Algeria’s opposition parties have lost all credibility and cannot mobilize society.
As the state fails to improve socio-economic conditions, Moroccans are taking matters into their own hands.
A recently released report provokes new rifts between the country’s secular and religious forces.
Algerian females have access to public space, but in controlled, restricted, and conditional ways.
Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck discusses the mechanisms that the Algerian regime uses to perpetuate itself.
Russia is regaining influence in North Africa thanks to weapons, energy, and trade.
A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb lost its Kabylia stronghold through its multiple mistakes.
Tunisia’s local elections reflected public discontent, but were also an accomplishment.
In an interview, Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck talks about the paradoxes of state control over religion in Algeria.
Algeria’s regime regards “quietist” Salafism as a useful ally in the fight against more violent and politicized Salafists.
In Sidi Bouzid and Siliana, Tunisians hope that upcoming municipal elections will inject new life into a marginalized periphery.