No. 168: Sinai Peninsula - from Buffer Zone to Battlefield

Author(s): Lisa Watanabe
Editor(s): Christian Nünlist
Series Editor(s): Christian Nünlist, Matthias Bieri
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 168
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2015

The neglect of the Sinai and growth of a security vacuum on the peninsula has transformed Egypt's backwater into a stronghold of militancy, with implications of not only national, but also regional and global significance.

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Demilitarized Zones in the Sinai 1979-2015

Sinai Bedouin Tribes and Gas Pipelines