- Τὰ πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει.
The Moor Next Door is a weblog written by a student of International Relations and Middle Eastern/African Studies. Its purpose is to explore the politics, foreign policy and diplomacy of the Maghreb and the Arab Middle East. North Africa, long under-served by Anglophone scholarship, is the primary area of interest from a geopolitical, cultural, and historical standpoint. TMND also aims to better understand the historical forces driving the international and regional affairs of North Africa. Further interest is noted in current trends in global geopolitics and geo-strategy, especially in regards to the policies of rising powers and the United States towards North Africa and the Arab world generally.
The author’s languages include English, Arabic, Berber, written Latin and French, conversational Swedish and Afrikaans, and a working knowledge of Syriac and German.
[ Header image: "Combat autour d'un sou" (Battle over a penny) by Étienne Dinet, oil on canvas, 1889. ]
