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Amine Ayoub
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Amine Ayoub is a writing fellow and policy analyst based in Morocco. His writing focuses on Islamism, jihad, Israel and Middle East and North African politics, and has run in the Jerusalem Post, Yedioth Ahronoth and the Times of Israel.
Summarized from the MEF bio of Amine Ayoub, read October 4, 2026.
Writes on: terrorism and counterterrorism; Arab-Israeli conflict; energy and economy; North Africa; Israel; Egypt.
Topics are this site's tags, assigned from the subjects of Amine Ayoub's bylined MEF pieces and the MEF bio.
MEF Work (206)
Bylined pieces published by the Middle East Forum, newest first, 2024 to 2026. Titles are quoted as MEF published them and link to the original on meforum.org.
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2026 (130)
- Hamas’s Underground Elections Show What Israel Has Yet to Destroy
- The Iron Wall in Rabat: Why Morocco’s Political Shift Won’t Touch the Abraham Accords
- China Is Turning the Red Sea Into a New Security Front
- Why Is Tehran Terrified of French Verbs?
- Israel Destroyed Iran’s Weapons Sites. Can Russia and China Rebuild Them?
- Erdoğan’s Quiet Squeeze: Turkey Just Closed a Key Iranian Financial Channel
- Israel and Morocco Are Redrawing the Strategic Map of North Africa
- Sudan Is Dividing Quietly: Is the War Creating Two States?
- Algeria Just Severed Ties with the United Arab Emirates; Israel Is the Quiet Winner
- Sánchez’s Scapegoat: How Spain Uses Israel to Mask Its Border Crisis
- Cairo’s Pivot, Ethiopia’s Alignment: Horn of Africa’s Security Shift
- The Kharg Trap: How U.S. Strikes in Hormuz Put Israel’s Mediterranean Gas Infrastructure at Risk
- Israel Holds the High Ground, Iranian Axis Severely Weakened
- Middle East Is Watching Israel’s Election to See If It Still Has the Strength to Deter Iran
- The Front Line Is Everywhere: Why Europe Must Dismantle Tehran’s Hybrid Terror Network
- Internal Cracks in Libya’s Executive Threaten New U.N.-Backed 4+4 Electoral Deal
- The Commander Who Smashed ISIS Just Surrendered to Syria’s Ex, Al-Qaeda President
- Jordan’s China Pivot Creates a New Security Risk for Israel
- Israel Just Redrew the Map in Syria and Lebanon. Containment Is Over and Forward Deterrence Has Begun
- A Suit Doesn’t Absolve October 7: Hamas Is Buying Time for the Next War
- The November 2026 Trap: How Hamas Plans to Penetrate the West Bank Through the Ballot Box
- The Mirage of the Riyadh Shield: Why Saudi Arabia Refuses to Strike Tehran and What It Means for Israel
- The U.S.-Iran Pause Didn’t Stop Tehran’s Drone War, and This Worries Israel
- How the New Atlantic Gas Corridor Changes the Balance of Power in North Africa
- The Rafah Sandbox: The Peace Council Plan Imperils Israeli Security
- U.S.’s Overture to Ahmed Al-Sharaa: A Risky Bet on 'Reformed' Islamism
- Tunisia Is Dying While Chasing Political Ghosts
- Turkey Doesn’t Need F-35s to Threaten Israel; It’s Already Testing Its Arsenal in Libya
- International Monetary Fund Warns Algeria on Deep Structural Failures in Economic Management
- The Only Army in Gaza Israel Actually Trusts Isn’t Egypt’s; It’s Morocco’s
- Algeria’s July 2 Vote: Why the Regime Fears a Number, Not a Result
- The U.S. Can Debate AI Integration; Israel Has Already Operationalized It
- The Parallels Between Morocco and Israel Are Impossible to Ignore
- Algeria Is Spending $25 Billion to Counter Weapons Israel Built for Morocco
- France Was Promised Palestinian Elections. It Got Abbas’s Son Instead
- Algeria’s Military Diplomacy Theater: Strategic Ambiguity as a Tool of Survival
- Russia Is Building a Nuclear Beachhead in Egypt
- Tunisia’s Legal Trap: Saied Has Perfected the Art of Jailing Journalists
- Egypt’s Gaza Deployment: A Force Built to Fail
- Sisi Has Run This Con Seven Times. Washington Keeps Falling for It
- Europe Condemns Israel While Arms Makers Buy Billions in Israeli Weapons
- Algeria’s Generals Have Given Their Verdict Before a Single Vote Has Been Cast
- Rescuing Hezbollah: Inside France’s Panic over Israel’s Deepening Incursion
- Could the Iran War End with Tehran’s Uranium in China’s Vaults?
- France Didn’t Lose the Sahel; It Was Rejected. The Difference Matters
- Egypt Is in the Gulf, but It Won’t Fight Alongside Israel, And Iran Knows It
- The United Nations Is Building Libya’s Next War by Excluding Its Indigenous Peoples
- Egyptian President Sisi Is Using the Nile to Distract from His Failures
- Hezbollah Is Using the ‘Ceasefire’ to Produce More Drones for War Against Israel
- How Algeria Smothers Opposition Parties Before the Campaign Begins
- Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood Problem Is Now Everyone’s Problem
- Tunisia’s Democratic Collapse Is a Warning Washington Cannot Afford to Ignore
- Mali’s Collapse Is North Africa’s Next Security Crisis
- Designating Polisario as Terrorists Is Only the First Step for Morocco in the Sahara
- Sisi’s Sinai Speech: Nationalist Theater from a Failing Autocrat
- Bahrain’s Citizenship Purge Exposes Iran’s Most Dangerous Weapon
- Libya’s Oil Is Funding Its Own Disintegration
- Beyond the Buffer: Why South Lebanon Demands a New Strategic Logic
- Libya: A Nation Hijacked as a Proxy Battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine Shadow War
- The Homs Tunnels and the Myth of Syrian Neutrality
- The Danger of Inconsistent American Messaging on Iran
- Cairo’s Moroccan Lifeline: A Drowning Egypt Grasps for Regional Relevance
- Algeria’s Managed Democracy: When Elections Change Nothing
- The Spanish Sabotage: How NATO’s Weakest Link Endangers the War Effort
- Libya’s Oil Trap: 81 Percent Recovery of Production Yet Militias Persist 15 Years After NATO
- Sisi’s High-Wire Act: Can Egypt Survive a Victorious Israel and a Weakened Iran?
- Cairo’s Plea to Trump Exposes Egypt’s Frailty and Imperils Regional Security
- The Iran and Sudan Connection: A New Empire Crosses the Red Sea
- End of Multilateralism: Iran War Exposed NATO’s Irrelevance
- The Entebbe Alliance Reborn: Why Uganda Is Ready to Fight Iran Alongside Israel
- From Neutrality to Necessity: The Gulf’s 'Turning Point' Must Cement a Middle East NATO
- A Mediterranean Inferno: Ukraine’s Secret War Just Collided with Libya’s Chaos
- The Salalah Port Attack: Alienating Oman and Dooming the Resistance Axis
- Crossing the Red Line: The U.S.-Iran Shadow War Reaches the Gates of North Africa
- Beyond the 'Solidarity Tour': Why Egypt’s Diplomacy in Doha is a Dead End
- Trump’s Trade Ultimatum to Spain: Reassess South of Gibraltar
- Algeria’s Sham Reforms Expose Regime’s Fear of Real Democracy Ahead of Elections
- The Iran-Brotherhood Nexus and the Global Threat to Energy Security
- The Phosphate Realignment: Strategic Realism in U.S.-Morocco Relations
- Polisario’s Last Gasp: Algeria’s Iranian Ally Is Gone
- Israel Must Stop Damascus from Absorbing Sweida
- Why the Beit Shemesh Massacre Proves 'Restraint' Is a Death Sentence
- Algeria’s Agony: Why the Fall of Ali Khamenei Is a Nightmare for Algiers
- Algeria’s ‘Guillotine of Citizenship’: The Anatomy of a Paranoid Regime
- The Balkan Firewall: Why Iran’s Post-War Pivot to Europe Threatens the European Union
- The 'Ghost' of Seif al-Islam Gaddafi and Khalifa Haftar’s 2030 Vision: Libya’s Battle for Order
- Why 2026 Is the Year Israel Finally Stopped Fearing Ramadan
- Iran Has Terrorized International Waters for Decades, Now India and the World Have Had Enough
- Why Gaza’s Clans Are the Missing Piece of the Victory Puzzle
- Tunisia’s Constitutional Twilight: Is Kais Saied Engineering a Third Term?
- The Tribal Solution: Why Gaza’s Future Lies in Pre-Islamic Social Structures
- The Phantom Seat: North Africa’s African Union Deadlock and the New Trans-Regional Axis
- Israel Must Legally Sunset the ‘Refugee’ Myth by Equating Gaza with Baghdad
- Qatar’s Mediterranean Gambit: Buying Influence in Libya’s Energy Future
- Erdoğan's Atomic Ambition: Why Turkey Is the Middle East's Next Proliferation Crisis
- The Madrid Secret: Forcing Algeria to Finally End Its War Against Morocco
- The Assassination That Ended Libya’s Hope for a Unified State
- The Gulf’s Cold War: How Saudi-UAE Rivalry Is Tearing the Region Apart
- The Hidden Risks of Reopening the Rafah Crossing
- The Misrata Hub: How International Capital Anchors the Militia Cartel
- Gaza’s ‘Technocratic Shield’: Governance Is a Survival Tactic for Hamas
- Israel Risks Losing the Strategic Endgame in Gaza
- How Post-Assad Chaos and North African Smugglers Collide
- The Tunis Mirage: Why Libya’s Sovereignty Cannot Be Outsourced
- Why Israel Must Not Trust the New Islamist Order in Syria
- Libya’s $20 Billion Oil Bet: Energy Rebirth or State-Sanctioned Plunder?
- The Syria, SDF Deal Hands Turkey a Strategic Victory
- Israel Has Caused the Collapse of Turkey’s Indian Ocean Monopoly
- The 60,000 Rifle Mirage: Gaza’s Board of Peace Risks a Strategic Catastrophe
- Algeria’s Managed Elections and the Final Strangling of Political Pluralism
- The Hellenic Firewall: Reclaiming Libya’s Stolen Billions
- Sisi’s Use of U.S. Terror Designations Risks Egypt’s Southern Frontier
- Why Libya’s Water Crisis and Military Exercises Won’t Cure Its Fragmentation
- Israel Cannot Afford a Hamas 'Victory Picture' During Ramadan
- Dismantling the Iranian Zombie State: Washington’s Strategic Imperative
- Why Organizational Finality Is the Only Solution for Gaza
- Tunisia, the Arab Spring's Success Story, Is Now a Kingdom of Fear
- Spain Has Forgotten its History
- The Fall of the Tropical Caliphate
- Decapitating the Axis of Resistance from the Caribbean to the Maghreb
- The Victims No One Mourns
- Disaster in Yemen: Saudi Arabia Turns Its Guns on an Ally
- Egypt’s Supreme Court Just Gave the State Unlimited Power to Define ‘Terrorism’
- Panic in Mogadishu: Somali President Claims Israel Plans to 'Resettle' Gaza in Somaliland
- A Nuclear Ghost Ship off Algeria: How Putin Smuggled a Reactor Under NATO’s Nose
- Why Trump Should Follow Israel’s Lead On Somaliland
- Why Egypt Is Playing the “Debt-for-Displacement” Card Right Now
- The ‘Zombie’ Caliphate
- Starving but Surveying: The Dangerous Implications of Egypt’s Chinese-Backed Space Program
- From Gaza to Tindouf: The 'Charity' That Serves the Algerian Army
2025 (71)
- The Jordan-Syria “Drug Front”: Why the Monarchy Is Reassessing Damascus
- The Euro in the Collection Box: How Western ‘Charity’ Bought Hamas’s Rockets
- The Autocrat’s ATM: How Tunisia’s Dictator Turned Migrants into Currency
- Why Egypt’s Sisi Is Militarizing the Horn of Africa
- Iron Dome of the Desert: Morocco Just Activated Israel’s Shield
- How Pakistan and Libya Just Killed the UN Embargo
- The Palmyra Betrayal: Why Washington Must Stop Subsidizing Syria’s Islamist Infiltration
- The Juridical Iron Curtain: How Algeria Is Criminalizing the West
- The Maghreb’s American Moment: Peace Through Strength Beats European Stagnation
- Erdoğan’s ‘Blue Homeland’ and the Illegal Occupation of Libya
- The Cairo Paradox: Why Israel Must Re-Evaluate the Strategic Logic of the Leviathan Deal
- How Ankara and Riyadh Are Engineering Sudan’s Collapse
- Beyond the Strongman: Can a King Save Libya’s Lost Generation?
- How Spain’s Anti-Israel Decree Fractures the Maghreb Security Consensus
- The U.N. Has Spoken: The Sahara Is Moroccan. Now the Real Work Begins
- Beware the Houthi Paradox: Iran’s Silent Surrender Makes Its Last Proxy More Dangerous
- The Quiet Conquest: Adaptive Islamism in American Institutions and the Texas Response
- Why U.S. Policy Must Reject Both Islamism and Autocratic Chaos in North Africa
- Built with Gulf Money, Staffed by Jihadis: The Lie of Syria’s New Army
- Why Erdoğan Sent an Ambassador to Damascus and His Army Into Syria on the Same Day
- Kais Saïed’s Mask: Tunisia’s Shift from Democratic Hope to Judicial Farce
- The Justice Charade: Why Syria’s Islamist Regime Is Whitewashing Sectarian Murder
- The $20 Billion Betrayal: Libya’s Elite Are Funding Global War with Stolen Gas
- The $100 Billion Gambit: How the Saudi F-35 Deal Rewrites Global Security Rules
- Mali’s Fuel Blockade Is a Regional Time Bomb and a Threat to American Interests
- The Sudan-Libya-Egypt Triangle: An Immediate Israeli Security Crisis
- Why Israel Must Have Veto Power Over Foreign Forces in Gaza
- Turkey’s 'Pro American' Energy Gambit Is a Geopolitical Hazard
- The Cornerstone Is Cracking: Why Egypt’s Internal Decay Threatens the Middle East’s Longest Peace
- Libya Is Becoming the World’s Crime Capital, America Can’t Afford to Look Away
- Spain’s Gaza Decree Is a Strategic Mistake
- The Maghreb’s Time Bomb: Why Peace with Morocco Can Trigger an Algeria Implosion
- Why Turkey’s 'Peace' Guarantee in Gaza Is a Hostage to Islamism
- Gaza’s Implosion: Israel Was Right All Along
- Morocco’s Gen Z: Rejecting Democracy, Trusting the Throne
- A Dangerous Mistake: Recognizing ‘Palestine’ Now Is a Gift to Hamas
- Did Israel Just Stop Russian Influence in the Middle East?
- Tunis Is Turning to Tehran, This Is What Washington Should Do
- Is Turkey Pulling a Seabed Heist with Libya? Malta Sounds the Alarm
- From Ally to Archterrorist? Is Ahmed Al-Sharaa the Next Bin Laden-in-the-Making?
- The Myth of a Joint Arab Army: Dictators Focus on Survival, Not Defense
- Qatar and Türkiye Weaponize 'Jihad' for Geopolitical Power in Dangerous Alliance
- After Doha, Accountability Must Extend to Turkey
- Algeria’s U.N. Maneuver: A Veiled Support for Terrorism
- Why the United States Must Stand with the Tunisian People, Not Its President
- The Flotilla Delusion: A Turkish Gambit, Not a Humanitarian Mission
- The Cost of Delusion: The Global Threat in Libya
- The Peril in Plain Sight: Why We Must Heed the Dangers of Islamism in Michigan
- Beyond Hagia Sophia: Turkey’s Christians Face Erdoğan’s Unrelenting Islamization
- How Washington’s Biggest Drill Exposes Tunisia’s Democratic Decay
- Tripoli Just Flipped: Why the U.S. Can’t Afford to Miss This Moment in Libya
- Trump Goes Big in the Gulf, But Can Business Really Guarantee Israel’s Long-Term Security?
- Trump Should Be Wary of the Mirage in Doha
- Caught in the Crossfire: Gaza’s Christians Suffer as Hamas Hides Behind Churches
- Tunisia’s Silent Rage: Are the Streets Waiting to Erupt Again?
- Atlantic Lifeline: Morocco’s Ports as America’s Shield Against Sahel Terror
- Cyberwar in the Sahara: How Morocco’s Data Breach Exposes U.S. Vulnerabilities
- Trump's Tariffs: A Shock That Could Spare North Africa Another Spring
- Algeria and Mali: A Dangerous Rift at the Heart of the Sahel
- An Unspoken Alliance to Challenge Erdoğan Is Forming Between Israel, Egypt, Greece, France, and the UAE
- Algeria’s Shadow War: How It Funds and Arms Africa’s Deadliest Terror Groups
- New Syrian Leader Remains Security Threat Despite Rebranding
- Morocco-Nigeria Gas Pipeline: A Strategic Win for Africa and the United States
- Egypt's Gaza Plan: A Deadly Trap for Israel and the U.S.
- Iran’s Regional Recalibration: Qatar at the Center, Proxies on the Periphery
- Qatar's Grip on Education Is Causing an Explosion of Campus Antisemitism
- Could Morocco’s Religious Tolerance Be the Answer to the Chinese Uyghur Crisis?
- Libya: The Battleground of Superpowers, Islamism, and Corruption
- Jihadist Diplomacy: A Silent Shift in Global Politics
- Israel and North Africa: Security Challenges and Strategic Alliances
- Arrest of Pro-Israel Kuwaiti Journalist Highlights Muslim Brotherhood’s Influence
2024 (5)
- Assad's Fall Won't Revive the Arab Spring
- Morocco’s Unexpected Solution to Spain’s Antisemitism
- For Israel, the Rise of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham Represents a Dangerous Development
- Are Islamists in Morocco Really Against Normalization with Israel?
- U.S. Taxpayers Funding Anti-American Mosque in Michigan with Dexter Van Zile
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