The Sinai: a strategic territory under tension

18691967-1982197919962018Opening of the Suez CanalIsraeli occupationReturn of Taba to Egypt by the ICJSharm al-Sheikh “Summit of Peacemakers”Antiterrorist operations in the Sinai 2018 The Sinai desert was historically the frontier territory between Egypt, Bilad al-Sham and Arabia, a transit zone which until the 19th century was crossed by the pilgrimage caravan route to Mecca: control by the central power was then only partial. All that would change with the opening of the Suez Canal, which i...