The success of the New Pact will depend on its capacity to turn consultation into genuine partnership, to balance ambition with realism and to show it has learned from past experience.
French diplomat and historian Jean-Pierre Filiu offers testimony of an unprecedented destruction, a humanitarian catastrophe that surpasses the pain experienced in the Nakba of 1948. (afkar/ideas is available in Spanish and French)
Why have Arab countries failed the Palestinians and abandoned them in their time of need? All opinion polls revealed how shocked, saddened and angry the Arab peoples are.
The MedCat Days 2026 provides a space for reflexion on the future of the regional cooperation with the new Pact for the Mediterranean.
The Middle East is undergoing a profound transformation – it is being remade. But the process of remaking is complex and hardly reflects the vision of the remakers.
From July 7 to 10, 2026, Tetouan will host the second edition of the Aula Mediterrània Morocco Summer School,
Power-sharing arrangements in Libya tend less to pave the way for political transformation than to reactivate arrangements among elites aimed at preserving their positions
Is Lebanon at the dawn of a genuine opening with the coincidence of a new reformist executive, a weakened Hezbollah and a state apparatus with access to international financing?
AulaMed article by Francesco Cavatorta, speaker of the Aula Mediterrània 2025-26 lecture series.
The Middle East wars of the past three years were driven by local disputes but they steadily led the US to play a central role and forced Russian and China to adapt.
New edition of the Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, a joint initiative of IBEI and Blanquerna University with the collaboration of the IEMed.
The war has drastically accelerated the erosion of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s (IRI) revolutionary identity as the system is currently completing its transformation into a security state.
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