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Amr Salah is an Adjunct Faculty and Ph.D. Candidate at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, where he teaches global conflict analysis and resolution. Amr’s research interests focus on Middle East conflicts and politics, particularly the case of Egypt. He has more than 15 years of experience in research and political analysis. Before joining the Carter School, he was a Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (Germany).
China’s growing maritime presence in Egypt's ports and the Suez Canal
In recent years, China’s presence in Egypt’s strategic ports has grown noticeably, including the involvement of both private and state-owned Chinese companies. While this reflects Beijing’s growing ambitions in the region, the opacity of the Sino-Egyptian agreements and the blurry lines between China’s commercial ports and its military aspirations raise questions about the potential implications.
Realigning priorities: Egypt's strategic shift toward Qatar, Turkey, and Iran
While some analysts attribute Egypt’s realignment toward Turkey, Qatar, and Iran to a change in the foreign policies of its influential allies, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, it can be argued that Egypt’s shift is primarily motivated by its domestic dynamics and its unfulfilled foreign policy objectives between 2014 and 2018. Egypt’s realignment, in that sense, seeks to achieve multiple unmet domestic and regional aims.
