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By Afro-Middle East Centre The increasing tensions between forces loyal to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Houthi are a symptom of the
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By Afro-Middle East Centre The increasing tensions between forces loyal to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Houthi are a symptom of the

By Zeenat Adam The recent visit by US President Joe Biden to Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Saudi Arabia was underwhelming, but cast a

By Ali Fathollah-Nejad On 4 January, a day after the one-year anniversary of the US assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, Iran

By Ali Fathollah-Nejad The November presidential election victory of Joe Biden against the incumbent Donald Trump raised alarm bells within the anti-Iran front in the

By Mahdi Ghodsi and Ali Fathollah-Nejad The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged Iran’s already ailing economy, but the country’s economic crisis is rooted in factors beyond

By Ali Fathollah-Nejad and Amin Naeni The outcome of the 3 November US presidential election will reverberate far beyond the USA, especially in Iran, where it

By Phyllis Bennis When US president, Donald Trump, announced his latest threats against Iran on Rush Limbaugh’s show last week, it was unclear whether he or his

Turkish airstrikes against the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) in northern Iraq last month attracted the attention of regional and international players and angered Iraq’s prime minister Mustafa

Within days of the United Arab Emirates and Israel signing a deal to normalise relations, the UAE indefinitely postponed a ceremonial signing eventthat was to be held

By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey Crashing oil prices and further economic woes from the coronavirus outbreak are hitting the Middle East region hard, with many countries already in need of external
The Afro–Middle East Centre (AMEC) is Africa’s leading research institute dedicated to the study of the Middle East and the evolving relationship between Africa and the Middle East.