Francis Ghiles

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

Author Articles

Examining West’s history of ambivalence towards Muslim Brotherhood
04-07-2018
Cover of Robert Irwin’s “Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography.”
Rediscovering Ibn Khaldun, a pioneering Arab medieval mind
03-24-2018
Italian ambassador in Cyprus Andrea Cvallari (R), Israel’s Energy minister Yuval Steinitz (2nd R), Greece’s Energy minister Giorgos Stathakis (2nd L) and Cyprus’ energy minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis (L) shake hands after their talks in Nicosia, last December. (AP)
Natural gas in eastern Mediterranean fuels increasing tensions
03-17-2018
People carry vegetable baskets inside a camp for migrant minors in Catania. (AFP)
Election results will make life even more miserable for Italy’s illegal migrants
03-10-2018
A French soldier checks the IMEI number of a mobile phone during a regional anti-insurgent operation in Inaloglog in Mali, last October. (Reuters)
No clear prospect for getting out of the Sahel quagmire
03-03-2018
A policeman looks at screens in a video-surveillance suite in a police station at Les Halles in Paris, last October. (AFP)
Europeans face unprecedented challenge over return of ISIS fighters
02-24-2018
Anti-Erdogan protesters, one holding a banner reading Truth and Justice, demonstrate in Paris, on January 5. (AP)
Turkey is following footsteps of Russia and China in policing diaspora
02-17-2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi following a news conference in Cairo, last December. (AFP)
The implications of Egypt’s more assertive foreign policy
02-03-2018
Leviathan. Iranian President Hassan Rohani (C) attends the inauguration of a newly built extension of the port of Chabahar in south-eastern Iran, last December. (AP)
Tehran cracking down on IRGC’s business networks
01-26-2018

Predicting Iran is as challenging as predicting Trump
01-22-2018

US President Donald Trump talking to the media at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. (AP)
Will Trump push the EU to more independent stands in Middle East?
01-08-2018

Tunisia is not a tax haven
01-05-2018

Why Russia is back as a major geopolitical player in the Middle East
01-04-2018

Safwan Masri looks at why Tunisia will probably succeed
12-18-2017

How the West’s wariness of Iran put the Palestinian issue on the back burner
11-25-2017

Looking back over the past generation – specif­ically to the year 1977, when the first Likud gove

The ‘adults’ in Trump’s room
11-19-2017

The most troubling question in Wash­ington is not what US President Donald Trump’s “adults” belie

France and America’s shadow war in Africa
11-05-2017

Four US special op­erations personnel were killed and two wounded in an attack October 4 in weste

Rise of far right signals end of German exceptionalism in Europe
10-01-2017

The surge of the xeno­phobic Alternative for Germany (AfD) party signals the end of Ger­man excep

Macron’s sharp contrast with Trump on display at UN
09-23-2017

The contrast between the two presidents as they spoke to the UN General Assembly in mid-September

Failed EU migration policy produces a perfect storm
07-29-2017

One damning report follows another: Amnesty Interna­tional and the British House of Lords have is