Host Carol Castiel talks with Elie Abouaoun, director of the US Institute of Peace’s North Africa and MENA programs, about a range of issues from the significance and implications of the Beijing-brokered rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, to the political state of play in Libya and Egypt as well as rising popular opposition in Morocco against its resumption of diplomatic relations with Israel given Tel Aviv’s right-wing government, attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank and lack of progress on a two-state solution.