Middle East & North Africa

Two main winners, two big losers, and one major misunderstanding: this, in a nutshell, is the result of the latest Israeli parliamentary election. The first winner is Israeli democracy. Almost half of the current members of the Knesset will…

The echoes of the last violent confrontation between Israel and Gaza further strengthened an already shared perception in the Israeli-Palestinian context: violence sets the clock back on all negotiations and who benefits from it are…

The Syrian civil war is about the transfer of power from a minority to a majority in the context of massive demographic change and a violently unstable Middle East region. The Syrian peace will be about the coherence of that majority and…

“Morsi ha sfruttato il plauso delle cancellerie occidentali. L’ultima guerra di Gaza gli è servita per attuare ciò che aveva in mente da tempo”. Così Salim Ragheb, commerciante, 35enne, uno dei numerosi manifestanti che, dallo scorso 22…

Il nuovo round di sanzioni imposte all’Iran dagli Stati Uniti e dall’Europa poco prima dell’estate ha inequivocabilmente generato problemi al sistema economico e finanziario iraniano. Il nuovo pacchetto delle sanzioni ha colpito in modo…