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From a Financial Crisis in America, to an Economic Disaster in North Africa: Al Qaeda’s Dream Scenario Coming
The American government, from the White House to Congress, has been sleeping at the wheel over the past eight years acting as an absent landlord. The political and financial crisis that is unfolding before our eyes masks a substantial weakness in the way the American political and economic...
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Published 2 months ago

Le prochain président américain et le Maghreb: La fin de la lune de miel
Opinion par Arezki Daoud daoud@north-africa.com Avec un nouveau locataire dans la Maison Blanche, la politique américaine envers le Maghreb subira un rééquilibrage inévitable et important en 2009. L’importance du changement à venir est peu claire et difficile à mesurer, mais la nouvelle...
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Published 5 months ago

The Next American President: What Should the Maghreb Expect
With a new tenant in the White House, the American policy toward the Maghreb is likely to undergo some important retooling in 2009. The magnitude of the changes is unclear as the new American administration will probably view the region through old and new lenses. Read our opinion and share...
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Published 5 months ago

The Sahel Region Troubled by a Touareg War
A feud between a Touareg tribe and the government of Mali seems to be engulfing the region’s Touareg population at large like rarely before, adding more tension to a region that saw growing Al Qaeda activity. But what started as being a much localized conflict is now spreading across borders,...
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Published 6 months ago

Terror in Algiers
In his mid-thirties, AH smiled when he described to me the joy of playing with his two young children. For him, having a safe job to provide for his family was a great achievement and something to protect. One day later on December 11, 2007, AH, a UN staffer in Algiers was tragically killed in a...
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Published 11 months ago

What’s Behind Tunisia’s Reversal of Hijab Ban?
In 1981, then Tunisian president Bourguiba ratified a law banning Tunisian women from wearing the hijab in state offices. Subsequently, the Tunisian government issued more restrictive enactments, considering hijab a sign of extremism and as a result banned it. But on October 11, 2007, the law...
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Published a year ago

What Role for France in the Mediterranean?
Led by president Nicola Sarkozy, a few senior French strategists have embarked on the daunting task of convincing the countries of the Mediterranean basin to form yet another regional union. It’s a good idea but it is also one that has many more skeptics than believers. Even the powerful...
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Published a year ago

Algeria’s New Russian Military Equipment Tested on the Battleground
Algeria’s military has been scoring good successes in its offensive against the insurgent groups sheltered in the country’s rugged northeastern mountains. The latest offensive has been likened by observers on the field as a unique opportunity for the Algerian defense forces to test their new...
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Published a year ago

Libyan Realpolitik : By Alessandro Bruno
While the French leadership basks in the limelight of the deal to release the Bulgarian medics last July, Libya itself has managed to turn what was increasingly becoming the embarrassing problem of the death sentences faced by the medics and the related internal political pitfalls, into a...
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Published a year ago

The Islamists’ Growing Momentum in Moroccan Politics
2007 will be an important year for Morocco’s political future and a test of how much progress democracy has made in spite of a potential Islamist takeover. At the heart of the current discussions and debates among the power elites in politics and business within and outside Morocco, is the...
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Published 2 years ago