Francis Ghiles

Francis Ghilès is an associate fellow at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs.  He is a frequent contributor to The Arab Weekly.   

 

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A worker at Tunis-Carthage International Airport stands near a TunisAir Airbus A320 aircraft on the tarmac at the airport in the Tunisian capital. (AFP)
Voodoo economics leads Tunisia to the brink
February 26, 2021
A 2018 file picture shows Robert “Rob” Malley, in his office in Washington. (AFP)
Has Robert Malley’s life and career prepared him for his new job?
February 18, 2021
Author Hugh Pope is seen giving a talk titled: “The new Turkey and the old Middle East.” (hughpope.com)
Hugh Pope lifts veil on misconceptions covering the Middle East
January 18, 2021
A 2019 file photo shows a reported foreign pilot whose plane was shot down by troops loyal to Libyan National Army troops, while in custody near Tripoli. (AFP )
Growing reliance on mercenaries spells more chaos in the region
November 17, 2020
A Palestinian woman in Gaza walks past a mural painted by an artist to protest the publications of Prophet Mohammed Cartoons, October 28. (AFP)
In his defence of cartoons, Macron walks a treacherous terrain
November 03, 2020
Algerians walk past campaign billboards ahead of the November referendum, on October 22, in Algiers. (AFP)
Algeria does not need a new constitution
October 26, 2020
A Tunisian man retrieves bank notes from an ATM in the capital Tunis. (AFP)
With dim economic prospects, Tunisia ‘dancing on volcano’
October 20, 2020
A nurse checks a woman’s temperature before a covid-19 test at a military mobile hospital in the town of El-Hamma, in Tunisia’s southwestern Gabes governorate, on August 26. (AFP)
Tunisia’s experience coping with pandemic is worth West’s attention
August 28, 2020
A file picture shows Algerian soldiers standing guard at the Tiguentourine gas complex, in In Amenas, about 1,600 kilometres southeast of the capital. (AFP)
Algeria’s army strengthens hold on power, Hirak fading away
July 27, 2020
Algeria's President Abdelmajid Tebboune observes a moment of silence during a ceremony to lay to rest the remains of 24 resistance fighters, returned from Paris after more than a century and a half. (AFP)
Skulls repatriated to Algeria but history still to be rewritten
July 08, 2020
A 2013 file picture shows an Algerian soldier standing guard at the Tiguentourine gas complex, in In Amenas, about 1,600 kilometres southeast of the capital. (AFP)
Algeria out of the picture in the Libyan crisis and for a reason
June 25, 2020
A demonstrator reacts infront of graffiti on a statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square during a Black Lives Matter protest in London. (AFP)
The West needs a healing focus not a censuring of the past
June 16, 2020
Tunisian woman works on the production of medical masks in a factory in the central city of Kairouan. (AFP)
Relocating EU manufacturing in Tunisia makes sense
June 08, 2020
A Chinese employee working on a battery production line at a factory in Huaibei in China’s Anhui province.(AFP)
Will Europe now remember it has potential partners closer than China?
April 11, 2020
Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum (R) listens to his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian during a joint press conference in the capital Algiers, last January. (AFP)
Europe needs to take North Africa more seriously
April 04, 2020
A worker wearing a protective suit disinfects a globe-shaped public garden, following the outbreak of coronavirus disease in Algiers, March 23. (Reuters)
Virus pandemic highlights Algeria’s governance problem
March 28, 2020
A ferry carrying Algerians who left France prepares to dock in Algiers amid a coronavirus outbreak, March 19. (AFP)
Lack of leadership hinders the fight against the coronavirus across the Mediterranean
March 21, 2020
Migrants are on their way to a camp on the Turkish side of the Turkey-Greece border near the Pazarkule crossing gate in Edirne province on March 9. (AFP)
Erdogan tripping up in cross wires of foreign policy contradictions
March 14, 2020
European Commissioner, Margaritas Schinas (R) speaks with French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner during a meeting of EU Interior Ministers in Brussels, March 4. (AP)
Erdogan saves face in Moscow but remains trapped in his own policies
March 07, 2020
International connections. A 2009 file photo of late Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. (AP)
Looking back at Mubarak's legacy
February 27, 2020