Abdennour Toumi
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Algeria’s and Türkiye’s Relations with the State of Palestine
Chronologically, Algeria put the Palestinian cause in front of its foreign policy principles, supporting people’s right to self-determination....
Algerian Diaspora in Türkiye-Algeria Relations: Cross-Cultural Adoption and Global Strategy Adaptation
This week Algerian Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad Ahmed Attaf’s visit to Türkiye came to enhance the excellent and...
How is France’s African Sahel Surrealpolitik Upsetting Algeria?
The ongoing political struggle in Niger, following the military coup against ousted President Mohammed Bazoum is the consequence of ...
Tunisia Between Political Instability and Economic Uncertainty
On July 25, 2021, Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed, who was elected in a landslide victory in 2019, marked the end of an eight -year...
Tunisia: Saied Wears de Gaulle’s Civilian Costume
Tunisian President Kais Saied’s decision to take over the county’s constitutional institutions on July 25 has left Tunisia’s...
Tunisia: What does President Kaïs Saïed Want?
Days have passed since the bold move by President Kaïs Saïed to freeze the parliament, firing his prime minister, Hichem Mechichi, who had...
Algeria: Political Immobility and Credibility of Elections
Algeria’s early legislative election results of 12 June left analysts in a dilemma in terms of possible scenarios of a break-through concerning...
Ceuta Beach Crisis: Another Episodic Diplomatic Tension between Rabat and Madrid
The relations between Madrid and Rabat are heating up, following the last month’s influx of Moroccan and sub-Saharan migrants to the Spanish...
Algerian Berber Separatist Movement: Threat to National Unity and Territory Integrity
Ethnic groups are relocating from federal systems and vehemently manifesting their autonomy further. Some are proclaiming independence using the...
Algeria: Political Anxiety and Youth Mobility
On Feb. 22, 2019, millions of youth took to the largest cities’ streets across Algeria. They gathered together to denounce the fifth-term...
Tunisia: Battle of Ideas between Animosity and Polity
Tunisia’s political scene is witnessing a revolution that neither the deep state nor the secular intelligentsia saw coming. The al-Nahdha party...
Algeria: Hirak’s Achievements vs. Hirak is The Solution
Algerians are still wondering about the February 22, 2019 peaceful Hirak’s achievements and animosity. According to the realist analysts, a...
Is Morocco Normalization the Last Nail in the Coffin for the Arab Maghreb Union?
On December 10, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump, weeks before leaving the White House took a major risk in his fiasco MENA foreign policy,...
Morocco-Israel Ties: Between Normalization and Banalization
The mutations of the post-cold war diplomacy environment have made the concept of traditional diplomacy between states more complex. This is because...
A New Algeria: Between A Bittersweet New Constitution and Politics of Doubt
Algerians went to the polls for a second time in less than a year in the aftermath of the fall of Ex-President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to back...
Algeria’s New Constitution Between the Spirit of the Law and the Practice of Power
The new Algerian draft constitution is based on providing the people with many freedoms. Hence President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's administration...
Tunisian Presidentialism: Is President Kaïs Saïed Salvation?
Almost a year ago, Tunisians elected Kaïs Saïed with an unprecedented popularity. The Tunisian president today dreams of having his own...
Algeria's African Migrants 'Partially Open Door' Policy
Since 2013, the Algerian authorities have expressed concern about migrants settling down in the southern border provinces of Tamenrassat and...
Algeria’s New Libya Policy: Mediation and Precaution
Since his election in December 2019, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been active on the thorny Libyan dossier. His action is based on...
Where is Tunisia Heading?
Last Wednesday evening Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Al-Fakhfakh presented his resignation to President Kaïs Saïed, who took office last...
Algeria-France Relations: National Security Imperatives
Last week President Macron phoned his Algerian counterpart President Tebboune. Officially the relations between the two countries are timid. The...
Algeria’s Position on the Skhirat Accord: A Disabled Solution
Algeria has been presented as a regional mediator for a long time. The leaders in Algiers, military and civilians alike, are not worried only about...
Covid-19: Should Shift the Maghreb Union Out of Neutral Gear
The way the Arab Maghreb Union states manage the public health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will shape the future of the region and will...
Algeria: The Citizen Hirak in a Time of Socioeconomic Depression & National Tragedy
In Algeria, aside from the Red decade of dystopian groups’ terrorism and tragedy of state counter-terrorism acts, 1992-2000 was the gravest...
Algiers-Rabat Relations: Double-Edged Diplomacy
After years of relative calm, these past weeks have seen the rise of one of the hottest levels of diplomatic tension between the Moroccan and...
Today's Hirak in Algeria Needs to Take a New Track
The Algerian Mosaic Hirak celebrates its first anniversary with peaceful protests accompanied by the military. The protesters’ bravery took the...
Tunisia: Moment for Truth
Tunisians have been very busy. People in coffee shops, barber shops and taxis are talking and it’s not about soccer anymore or the propane gas...
Franco-Algerian ties: A conflict of memory or love-hate relationship?
In a speech in Algiers in February 2017, then-French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron described the French Republic's atrocities in Algeria...
Arab Maghreb Union Should Fly like a Plane from Tataouine to Tétouan
Tunisian President Qaïs Saeed’s visit to Algeria in his first foreign trip, and Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s decision...
What Went Wrong for Tunisian Diplomacy?
“All politics is local” as the former U.S. House Speaker, Tip O’Neill put it, but in MENA region, it is regional and global....
Algeria-Turkey make remarkable rapprochement in skillful diplomatic moves
Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu paid his second official visit to Algeria in the last three months; however, this visit represented a d...
Algeria’s New Diplomacy and Security Policy for Libya
Since the beginning of the Libyan uprising against the al-Qadafi regime in 2011, Algeria looked for mediation rather than direct intervention. Algiers ...
A General Who Ended Fading Democracy
Following the passing of General Ahmed Gaïd Salah military Chief of Staff and Defense Vice-Minister Algeria’s strongman of the year 2019,...
Algeria’s New President Threw the Apple of Discord at Paris
Relations between France and Algeria have gotten tense, which is leading to troubled waters under President Macron’s bridge with Algiers. He...
Algeria: Change Only the Regime Wants
As usual Algerians did not fit in with the rest of the Arab countries’ customs. This time it's not because of their lingua franca dialect,...
France-Turkey Relations from Alliances Détente to Mésentente
The tension between Turkey and France has become more visible with the comments of the leaders of two countries. During a press conference alongside...
Algeria: Legacy of November, 1954 Echos in Hirak of February, 2019
Sixty-five years have passed since the Algerian Liberation War broke out, a popular uprising that turned into seven and a half-years of a bloody war,...
Turkey-Algeria: Desire of Warm Relations
Last week’s visit of the Turkish Foreign Minister Mr. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to Algeria differs from the earlier visits either he or P...
Tunisia: The Second Jasmine Revolt
On Sunday September 15th, the Tunisian Presidential elections put an end to the old systemic political and elite hegemony and demystified the...
Algeria’s and Türkiye’s Relations with the State of Palestine
Chronologically, Algeria put the Palestinian cause in front of its foreign policy principles, supporting people’s right to self-determination....
Algerian Diaspora in Türkiye-Algeria Relations: Cross-Cultural Adoption and Global Strategy Adaptation
This week Algerian Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad Ahmed Attaf’s visit to Türkiye came to enhance the excellent and...
How is France’s African Sahel Surrealpolitik Upsetting Algeria?
The ongoing political struggle in Niger, following the military coup against ousted President Mohammed Bazoum is the consequence of ...
Tunisia Between Political Instability and Economic Uncertainty
On July 25, 2021, Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed, who was elected in a landslide victory in 2019, marked the end of an eight -year...
Tunisia: Saied Wears de Gaulle’s Civilian Costume
Tunisian President Kais Saied’s decision to take over the county’s constitutional institutions on July 25 has left Tunisia’s...
Tunisia: What does President Kaïs Saïed Want?
Days have passed since the bold move by President Kaïs Saïed to freeze the parliament, firing his prime minister, Hichem Mechichi, who had...
Algeria: Political Immobility and Credibility of Elections
Algeria’s early legislative election results of 12 June left analysts in a dilemma in terms of possible scenarios of a break-through concerning...
Ceuta Beach Crisis: Another Episodic Diplomatic Tension between Rabat and Madrid
The relations between Madrid and Rabat are heating up, following the last month’s influx of Moroccan and sub-Saharan migrants to the Spanish...
Algerian Berber Separatist Movement: Threat to National Unity and Territory Integrity
Ethnic groups are relocating from federal systems and vehemently manifesting their autonomy further. Some are proclaiming independence using the...
Algeria: Political Anxiety and Youth Mobility
On Feb. 22, 2019, millions of youth took to the largest cities’ streets across Algeria. They gathered together to denounce the fifth-term...
Tunisia: Battle of Ideas between Animosity and Polity
Tunisia’s political scene is witnessing a revolution that neither the deep state nor the secular intelligentsia saw coming. The al-Nahdha party...
Algeria: Hirak’s Achievements vs. Hirak is The Solution
Algerians are still wondering about the February 22, 2019 peaceful Hirak’s achievements and animosity. According to the realist analysts, a...
Is Morocco Normalization the Last Nail in the Coffin for the Arab Maghreb Union?
On December 10, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump, weeks before leaving the White House took a major risk in his fiasco MENA foreign policy,...
Morocco-Israel Ties: Between Normalization and Banalization
The mutations of the post-cold war diplomacy environment have made the concept of traditional diplomacy between states more complex. This is because...
A New Algeria: Between A Bittersweet New Constitution and Politics of Doubt
Algerians went to the polls for a second time in less than a year in the aftermath of the fall of Ex-President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to back...
Algeria’s New Constitution Between the Spirit of the Law and the Practice of Power
The new Algerian draft constitution is based on providing the people with many freedoms. Hence President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's administration...
Tunisian Presidentialism: Is President Kaïs Saïed Salvation?
Almost a year ago, Tunisians elected Kaïs Saïed with an unprecedented popularity. The Tunisian president today dreams of having his own...
Algeria's African Migrants 'Partially Open Door' Policy
Since 2013, the Algerian authorities have expressed concern about migrants settling down in the southern border provinces of Tamenrassat and...
Algeria’s New Libya Policy: Mediation and Precaution
Since his election in December 2019, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been active on the thorny Libyan dossier. His action is based on...
Where is Tunisia Heading?
Last Wednesday evening Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Al-Fakhfakh presented his resignation to President Kaïs Saïed, who took office last...
Algeria-France Relations: National Security Imperatives
Last week President Macron phoned his Algerian counterpart President Tebboune. Officially the relations between the two countries are timid. The...
Algeria’s Position on the Skhirat Accord: A Disabled Solution
Algeria has been presented as a regional mediator for a long time. The leaders in Algiers, military and civilians alike, are not worried only about...
Covid-19: Should Shift the Maghreb Union Out of Neutral Gear
The way the Arab Maghreb Union states manage the public health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will shape the future of the region and will...
Algeria: The Citizen Hirak in a Time of Socioeconomic Depression & National Tragedy
In Algeria, aside from the Red decade of dystopian groups’ terrorism and tragedy of state counter-terrorism acts, 1992-2000 was the gravest...
Algiers-Rabat Relations: Double-Edged Diplomacy
After years of relative calm, these past weeks have seen the rise of one of the hottest levels of diplomatic tension between the Moroccan and...
Today's Hirak in Algeria Needs to Take a New Track
The Algerian Mosaic Hirak celebrates its first anniversary with peaceful protests accompanied by the military. The protesters’ bravery took the...
Tunisia: Moment for Truth
Tunisians have been very busy. People in coffee shops, barber shops and taxis are talking and it’s not about soccer anymore or the propane gas...
Franco-Algerian ties: A conflict of memory or love-hate relationship?
In a speech in Algiers in February 2017, then-French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron described the French Republic's atrocities in Algeria...
Arab Maghreb Union Should Fly like a Plane from Tataouine to Tétouan
Tunisian President Qaïs Saeed’s visit to Algeria in his first foreign trip, and Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s decision...
What Went Wrong for Tunisian Diplomacy?
“All politics is local” as the former U.S. House Speaker, Tip O’Neill put it, but in MENA region, it is regional and global....
Algeria-Turkey make remarkable rapprochement in skillful diplomatic moves
Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu paid his second official visit to Algeria in the last three months; however, this visit represented a d...
Algeria’s New Diplomacy and Security Policy for Libya
Since the beginning of the Libyan uprising against the al-Qadafi regime in 2011, Algeria looked for mediation rather than direct intervention. Algiers ...
A General Who Ended Fading Democracy
Following the passing of General Ahmed Gaïd Salah military Chief of Staff and Defense Vice-Minister Algeria’s strongman of the year 2019,...
Algeria’s New President Threw the Apple of Discord at Paris
Relations between France and Algeria have gotten tense, which is leading to troubled waters under President Macron’s bridge with Algiers. He...
Algeria: Change Only the Regime Wants
As usual Algerians did not fit in with the rest of the Arab countries’ customs. This time it's not because of their lingua franca dialect,...
France-Turkey Relations from Alliances Détente to Mésentente
The tension between Turkey and France has become more visible with the comments of the leaders of two countries. During a press conference alongside...
Algeria: Legacy of November, 1954 Echos in Hirak of February, 2019
Sixty-five years have passed since the Algerian Liberation War broke out, a popular uprising that turned into seven and a half-years of a bloody war,...
Turkey-Algeria: Desire of Warm Relations
Last week’s visit of the Turkish Foreign Minister Mr. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu to Algeria differs from the earlier visits either he or P...
