Afkār is a publication of the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, providing short-form analyses, insights, and perspectives on regional issues and developments from the Council's experts and outside contributors. Afkār is published in English and Arabic, and is edited by Omar H. Rahman.
The UN Security Council’s renewal of its Darfur arms embargo underlines the need to end the external support fueling Sudan’s war. Now is the time for implementation.
Despite years of negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and its implications on Nile water distribution, the project has been completed without an agreement in place. What happens now?
While the fight between the Houthis and Israel began in connection with the genocide in Gaza, the dynamics are changing and settling into a war on its own terms.
A crisis is brewing in the Mediterranean, as Türkiye and Greece exploit Libya’s political instability to advance rival claims over offshore gas and maritime zones.
Rather than Cold War anti-imperialism, today’s support for the Palestinian cause is rooted in a more recent history of Israeli complicity in Latin American state repression and violence.