Francis Ghiles

Francis Ghiles is an associate fellow at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs.

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Identity issue. During a protest in Algiers, March 15, the Algerian flag is hoisted below the Berber banner. (AP)
The key lessons of Algeria’s protests
March 16, 2019
Algerian riot police clashes with protestors (not pictured) demonstrating in Algiers against Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, on March 8. (DPA)
Algeria has turned a page in its modern history
March 09, 2019
The Algerian flag with the words written on it that read, “System get out, free Algeria” is held as protesters rally in Paris against the Algerian president’s bid for a fifth term in office, February 24. (AFP)
Events in Algeria surprise the French
March 02, 2019
A view of a large structure with flags of five Maghreb countries in the Moroccan city of Oujda. (Wikipedia)
A united Maghreb could play greater role on the world stage
February 23, 2019
Showing the way. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (L) and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, last September. (Reuters)
China’s deep pockets in Egypt
February 16, 2019
People pray at the Grand Mosque of Saint-Denis near Paris. (AFP)
France’s Muslim paradox
February 09, 2019
A migrant walks past an inscription reading, in French, “Neither Salvini, nor Macron” in the Alpine border town of Claviere, some 100km west of Turin. (AFP)
Migration at the heart of French-Italian crisis
February 02, 2019
Uphill battle. A Muslim woman holds posters as she protests against ‘hate and islamophobia’ in Brussels, last September 9. (AFP)
Misinterpreting Islam in the West
January 26, 2019
Cover of Andrew Bacevich's “America’s War for the Greater Middle East,” 2016.
The disaster of US democratic imperialism
January 19, 2019
Political tremors. French president Emmanuel Macron attends a meeting, December 22. (AFP)
A weaker Macron is good news to European populists
January 12, 2019
Cover of Sumantra Bose’s “Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism.”
Why Turkey’s authoritarian drift is unlikely in India
January 05, 2019
Spain’s far-right Vox party leader Santiago Abascal (C-R) speaks during a news conference in Seville, December 3. (Reuters)
Andalusia earthquake hits Spanish politics
December 08, 2018
Shifting dynamics. A general view of the Zawiya oil installation in Libya. (AFP)
Prospects for Libyan oil improve
December 01, 2018
A ship carrying Chinese military personnel departs a port in Zhanjiang as it prepares to sail to Djibouti. (Xinhua)
Russia, China tussle reflects struggle for influence in the region
November 03, 2018
Growing partnership. Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan (C) attends a memorial ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, on October 24. (AP)
Guess who Israel’s second largest trading partner is — China
October 27, 2018
People dressed in traditional Bavarian clothes cast their votes for regional elections at a polling station in Neukirchen in southern Germany, on October 14. (AFP)
Bavaria vote augurs no change in migration policies
October 20, 2018
A supporter of the Muslim Uighur minority protests to denounce China’s treatment of ethnic Uighurs in front of the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, last July 5. (AFP)
China’s Middle East policy runs into problems
October 13, 2018
Workers walk past the In Amenas gas plant south-east of Algiers. (AFP)
Iberian gas link has strategic implications for Maghreb, EU
October 13, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron (C) walks next to Michele Audin, daughter of late Maurice Audin, as he leaves the home of Josette Audin, widow of Audin in Bagnolet, on September 13. (AFP)
Being honest with history can help France and others build a better future
September 22, 2018
Prime Minister and leader of the Social Democrat party Stefan Lofven waves at an election party in Stockholm, on September 9. (AP)
Swedish elections show face of ‘new Europe’, leave politics deadlocked
September 15, 2018