The China Africa Project
12.25.16

China’s Risky Power Play in the Arab World

Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden & more

International Relations Professor Zaynab El Bernoussi from Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, joins Eric and Cobus this week to discuss her recent column on China’s growing influence in the Middle East and North Africa....

Postcard
05.05.16

If China Builds It, Will the Arab World Come?

Kyle Haddad-Fonda

In May 2016, the Emirates airline inaugurated its new direct service to the Chinese city of Yinchuan. Yinchuan joins...

Media
04.23.14

Welcome to Uighur Web—Now Watch What You Say

China’s Internet is vast, with millions of sites and more than 618 million users. But nested within that universe is a tiny...

Features
09.18.12

A Mosque of Their Own

Kathleen McLaughlin

The women of Sangpo know well they are the guardians of a 300-year-old custom that sets them apart in Islam and they are increasingly mindful that economic development could be that tradition’s undoing.

Sangpo, a dusty...