Matthieu Rey
Matthieu Rey is an historian studying state-building and policymaking in Western Asia and Southern Africa. He is the director of the Contemporary Studies department at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo). He recently published When Parliaments ruled the Middle East: Iraq and Syria, 1946–63 (AUC Press, 2022).
Power politics in the Middle East: How the global North-South divide capitalises on trauma
2024-01-26"South Africa’s case against Israel is very important and symbolic for the world. This is my opinion as someone from the global North: It demonstrates the possibility of real cosmopolitanism, the only answer to racism."