Tag: Dahlak Islands
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Dr. Abdella AlNafisi’s Thirty-year Sleep
By the end of the 1990s, the Islamist wave had reached its ebb. In 1988 Iraq invaded Kuwait and unleashed disaster. The USA arrayed its arsenal, and allies launched Desert Storm to reverse Saddam’s invasion. That heralded the beginning of a long, unstable era for the Middle East and beyond. In 1989 Sudan’s Islamist National…
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The Red Sea: Between Occupiers and Owners
To Eritreans, the Red Sea is all of the above; to invaders, it is just a port, a swinging door. They come and leave from the same door.