North Africa

The Dead Sea

25 October 2016. 

Private film screening and panel discussion
Konstantinos Antonopoulos, Policy and Advocacy Advisor, Medecins Sans Frontieres
Stuart Gatt, Writer and Director of The Dead Sea
Markus Geisser, Senior Humanitarian Affairs & Policy Advisor, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Arundel House, London
Tuesday 25 October 2016, 6–7.30PM BST

Libya’s faltering new government

21 September 2016. 

The new UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has based itself in Tripoli. But the GNA has failed to muster an effective nationwide military capability and is rivalled for national authority by the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HOR), which controls the Libyan National Army, Libya's most cohesive armed organisation, as well as Libya's oil ports. Although GNA-linked forces have decimated the Islamic State in and around Sirte, the new government's unsteady hold on Tripoli is vulnerable to HOR challenge.

Egypt's Islamist Insurgency: Dynamics and the Security Response

07 June 2016. 

Discussion Meeting
Mokhtar Awad, Research Fellow, Program on Extremism at George Washington University
Arundel House, London
Tuesday 7 June 2016, 12.30–1.30PM BST

Chapter 3: Middle East

05 May 2016. 

Egypt (Sinai)
Iraq
Israel–Palestine
Lebanon–Hizbullah–Syria
Libya
Mali (The Sahel)
Syria
Turkey (PKK)
Yemen

The Decline and Fall of the Arab State

21 March 2016. 

The malaise of Arab states was triggered by domestic battles, but made possible by global changes in the nature of sovereignty.

Adelphi Launch - Egypt After the Spring: Revolt and Reaction

02 March 2016. 

Book Launch
Michael Hanna, Senior Fellow, Century Foundation
Hebatalla Taha, Research Analyst, IISS
Arundel House, London
Wednesday 2 March, 12.30-1.30pm

Confronting failed government and the Islamic State in Libya

25 February 2016. 

The Islamic State has taken advantage of the chaos of 20 months of war in Libya to build a series of bases in the country, expanding its territory and now threatening the country’s oil ports. The United States and its allies now face hard decisions about how to confront the militant group.

Chapter 7: Middle East and North Africa

09 February 2016.  Regional states deploy amid worsening security; Worries about Iran; Reforming Iraq’s army; The war against ISIS; ISIS in combat; The US-led coalition against ISIS; War in Syria: towards year five; Regime acknowledges personnel shortage; Other actors
Libya
Yemen: GCC military operations; UAE forces; GCC defence cooperation
Regional Defence Economics; Macroeconomics; Defence spending; Procurement; Combat aviation, air and missile defence; Land systems and airlift; Surface vessels and coastal-patrol assets

North Africa in Transition

20 January 2016. 

IISS–Americas Book Launch
Ben Fishman, Editor, North Africa in Transition
Haim Malka, Contributing Author, North Africa in Transition; Middle East Program Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, CSIS
John Desrocher, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Egypt and Maghreb Affairs
Chair: Mark Fitzpatrick, Executive Director, IISS–Americas
IISS–Americas, Washington DC
Wednesday 20 January 2016, 2pm-3pm EST

Chapter 5: Egypt’s non-Islamist parties

12 January 2016. 

Michael Wahid Hanna analyses the disparate array of non-Islamist political forces that have struggled to position themselves and ensure their relevance to the ever-changing politics of Egypt. He discusses several stages of fracture within non-Islamist parties, which have ultimately led to the demise of a genuine political opposition.