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The papers, published in this collection, ranged widely over issues connecting West Africa, the Horn, the Sahel and North Africa thematically, politically, militarily and culturally.  The goal of this volume is to get American political science to break down the barriers between academic subfields defined by regions and open the fields to new questions raised by scholars from and across Africa and the Middle East.Source: https://pomeps.org/pomeps-studies-40-africa-and-the-middle-east-beyond-the-dividesDownload the full PDF here.Introduction: A Transregional Approach to Africa and the Middle EastHisham Aïdi, Marc Lynch, Zachariah MampillyAnd the Twain Shall Meet: Connecting Africa and the Middle East Hisham Aïdi, Marc Lynch, Zachariah Mampilly Sudan’s Revolution‘Beyond regime change’: Reflections on Sudan’s ongoing revolutionNisrin El-AminThe Great Game of the UAE and Saudi Arabia in SudanJean-Baptiste GallopinWhat Lies Beneath the Sands: Archaeologies of Presence in Revolutionary SudanNoah Salomon WarscapesMaking Sense of the East African WarscapeSamar Al-BulushiMagnates, Media, and Mercenaries: How Libya’s conflicts produce transnational networks straddling Africa and the Middle EastWolfram Lacher Cross-Regional EngagementsDeterminants of Middle East states involvement in the Horn of AfricaFederico DonelliNetwork-Building and Human Capital investments at the intersection of China-Africa and China Middle East RelationsLina BenabdallahThe Scalar Politics of Turkey’s Pivot to AfricaEzgi Guner Identity MovementsNational Identity in the Afro-Arab Periphery: Ethnicity, Indigeneity and (anti)Racism in MoroccoHisham AïdiBlack Tunisians and the Pitfalls of Bourguiba’s Homogenization ProjectAfifa Ltifi Islamist MovementsRethinking the weak state paradigm in light of the war on terror: Evidence from the Islamic Republic of MauritaniaZekeria Ould Ahmed SalemWhy Are There Few Islamist Parties South of the Sahara?Alexander Thurston Concluding Reflections on Africa and the Middle EastAlexander de Waal