Karim Elgendy
@karimelgendy.bsky.social
Director of @carboun.bsky.social, Associate Fellow at Chatham House and Middle East Institute. 🔭 Energy Geopolitics and Climate Diplomacy in the Middle East and East Med.
Iraq’s blackout this week wasn’t just bad luck.
🇮🇶 30% of Iraq’s power runs on Iranian gas.
🌡️ Heatwaves above 50°C are straining the grid
⚡ Sanctions & supply cuts make outages inevitable.
My latest: how Iraq can swap dependence for clean domestic renewable power.
www.carboun.com/after-the-bl...
🇮🇶 30% of Iraq’s power runs on Iranian gas.
🌡️ Heatwaves above 50°C are straining the grid
⚡ Sanctions & supply cuts make outages inevitable.
My latest: how Iraq can swap dependence for clean domestic renewable power.
www.carboun.com/after-the-bl...
August 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Iraq’s blackout this week wasn’t just bad luck.
🇮🇶 30% of Iraq’s power runs on Iranian gas.
🌡️ Heatwaves above 50°C are straining the grid
⚡ Sanctions & supply cuts make outages inevitable.
My latest: how Iraq can swap dependence for clean domestic renewable power.
www.carboun.com/after-the-bl...
🇮🇶 30% of Iraq’s power runs on Iranian gas.
🌡️ Heatwaves above 50°C are straining the grid
⚡ Sanctions & supply cuts make outages inevitable.
My latest: how Iraq can swap dependence for clean domestic renewable power.
www.carboun.com/after-the-bl...
What is behind #Kuwait’s power cuts? Including some of my thoughts for @thenationalnews.com
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
What’s behind Kuwait’s power cuts? | The National
Reforms needed to accelerate renewable energy capacity expansion and upgrade grid infrastructure
www.thenationalnews.com
April 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
What is behind #Kuwait’s power cuts? Including some of my thoughts for @thenationalnews.com
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
March 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I am honoured to become part of this great group of Middle East experts. Thank you for the invitation to join.
I look forward to fruitful collaborations on how energy and climate issues intersect with regional geopolitics, security and diplomacy.
I look forward to fruitful collaborations on how energy and climate issues intersect with regional geopolitics, security and diplomacy.
Please join us in welcoming Karim Elgendy to the Chatham House MENA programme!
As an Associate Fellow, @karimelgendy.bsky.social will contribute to our work on energy transitions and climate policy in the Middle East and North Africa.
www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our...
As an Associate Fellow, @karimelgendy.bsky.social will contribute to our work on energy transitions and climate policy in the Middle East and North Africa.
www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our...
Karim Elgendy
Karim Elgendy is an expert on energy transitions and climate policy in the Middle East and North Africa. His research examines the intersection of climate diplomacy, energy geopolitics, and sustainabl...
www.chathamhouse.org
March 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I am honoured to become part of this great group of Middle East experts. Thank you for the invitation to join.
I look forward to fruitful collaborations on how energy and climate issues intersect with regional geopolitics, security and diplomacy.
I look forward to fruitful collaborations on how energy and climate issues intersect with regional geopolitics, security and diplomacy.
🚨 Breaking: Assad's fall could redraw the Mediterranean's energy map. In my latest @chathamhouse.bsky.social analysis, I explore how Turkey stands to become the region's key energy crossroads - through both gas pipelines AND green power networks.
www.chathamhouse.org/2024/12/turk...
www.chathamhouse.org/2024/12/turk...
Turkey’s energy hub ambitions have new momentum after Assad’s fall
Assad’s departure could help Turkey become a key point of transit for natural gas. But renewable energy may offer the more promising avenue for cooperation with a new Syrian regime.
www.chathamhouse.org
December 18, 2024 at 3:33 PM
🚨 Breaking: Assad's fall could redraw the Mediterranean's energy map. In my latest @chathamhouse.bsky.social analysis, I explore how Turkey stands to become the region's key energy crossroads - through both gas pipelines AND green power networks.
www.chathamhouse.org/2024/12/turk...
www.chathamhouse.org/2024/12/turk...
Reposted by Karim Elgendy
Interesting piece from @karimelgendy.bsky.social on the ways in which Turkey could benefit from Assad's fall in the energy space: www.chathamhouse.org/2024/12/turk...
Turkey’s energy hub ambitions have new momentum after Assad’s fall
Assad’s departure could help Turkey become a key point of transit for natural gas. But renewable energy may offer the more promising avenue for cooperation with a new Syrian regime.
www.chathamhouse.org
December 18, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Interesting piece from @karimelgendy.bsky.social on the ways in which Turkey could benefit from Assad's fall in the energy space: www.chathamhouse.org/2024/12/turk...
Great post mortem of the collapse of Syrian regime’s army by the amazing Yazid Sayigh.
In this post I draw on past research I led on the Syrian army and on civil-military relations in other military-backed authoritarian Arab states to help answer the question of why the army failed to defend Assad:
Anatomy of a Military Fall
carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...
Anatomy of a Military Fall
carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...
Anatomy of a Military Fall
Why did Bashar al-Assad’s armed forces fail to act, unlike those in Egypt, Libya, Algeria, and Sudan?
carnegieendowment.org
December 10, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Great post mortem of the collapse of Syrian regime’s army by the amazing Yazid Sayigh.
1. Facilitating the return of Syrian refugees
2. Strengthening its national security by eliminating the threat from the YPG.
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menaso...
2. Strengthening its national security by eliminating the threat from the YPG.
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menaso...
What does Turkey gain from the rebel offensive in Syria?
The rebel offensive took many by surprise, but analysts familiar with the situation in Syria were aware that the rebels were prepared to launch it by mid-October.
www.atlanticcouncil.org
December 6, 2024 at 11:06 AM
1. Facilitating the return of Syrian refugees
2. Strengthening its national security by eliminating the threat from the YPG.
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menaso...
2. Strengthening its national security by eliminating the threat from the YPG.
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menaso...
Reposted by Karim Elgendy
This New Yorker interview with Fawaz Gerges is the single best thing I’ve seen that describes, reliably, what’s happening in Syria—along with the stakes/challenges—in language accessible to people who haven’t been closely following it.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
How the Syrian Opposition Shocked the Assad Regime
A historian explains why U.S. sanctions and Iran and Russia’s entanglements in other wars helped create an opening for rebel groups to overrun the Syrian Army.
www.newyorker.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:14 AM
This New Yorker interview with Fawaz Gerges is the single best thing I’ve seen that describes, reliably, what’s happening in Syria—along with the stakes/challenges—in language accessible to people who haven’t been closely following it.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
