Adel Abdel Ghafar is Senior Fellow and Director of the Foreign Policy Program at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, Qatar. Abdel Ghafar’s books include The Gulf Cooperation Council at Forty: Risk and Opportunity in a Changing World (2022), The European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council: Towards a New Path (2021), China and North Africa: Between Economics, Politics and Security (2021) among others.