The Abraham Accords have represented a remarkable shift in U.S. Middle East policy. They reframed Arab-Israeli normalization as a result of shared interests – within the Middle East and directly with the US, rather than as a byproduct of Israeli-Palestinian peace. Signed in September 2020, on the last leg of the first Trump administration, the Accords brokered by Washington normalized relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, followed by framework agreements with Morocco and Sudan. From the American perspective, the Accords were intended to break decades of diplomatic stagnation in the Middle East in order to establish a regional framework aligned with American strategic objectives.
بعد استيلاء قوات الدعم السريع على مدينة الفاشر، عاصمة ولاية شمال دارفور وآخر معاقل الجيش السوداني، استقطب الصراع في السودان الاهتمام الدولي مرة أخرى. هذا التطور هو الأحدث في الحرب الأهلية المدمرة التي استمرت لأكثر من عامين. تتناول جيهان هنري من "ميدل إيست آي" أصول الصراع، والوضع الإنساني على الأرض، وما يجب أن يحدث في المستقبل.
Water and Power: Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia at Odds Over Africa’s Largest Dam
In this episode of Middle East Focus, hosts Alistair Taylor and Matthew Czekaj are joined by MEI Senior Fellow Mirette F. Mabrouk to unpack the growing tensions over the recently inaugurated Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile.
