{"id":1679,"date":"2026-11-01T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2026-11-01T14:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:56:03","slug":"lines-under-the-sea-the-politics-of-the-middle-easts-data-corridors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/lines-under-the-sea-the-politics-of-the-middle-easts-data-corridors\/","title":{"rendered":"Lines Under the Sea: The Politics of the Middle East\u2019s Data Corridors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecairoreview.com\/contributors\/samir-aita\/\">Samir Aita<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Middle East is using fiber to rebuild the transit economy it once framed around oil and the Suez Canal. Which routes get laid will depend as much on security and sovereignty as on engineering, with the question of Palestine central to the choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecairoreview.com\/essays\/lines-under-the-sea\/\">Lines Under the Sea: The Politics of the Middle East\u2019s Data Corridors \u2013 The Cairo Review of Global Affairs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/thecairoreview.com-Lines-Under-the-Sea-The-Politics-of-the-Middle-Easts-Data-Corridors.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Contenu embarqu\u00e9 thecairoreview.com-Lines Under the Sea The Politics of the Middle Easts Data Corridors.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-af3b4239-e1df-4948-aa08-f30ae268f136\" href=\"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/thecairoreview.com-Lines-Under-the-Sea-The-Politics-of-the-Middle-Easts-Data-Corridors.pdf\">thecairoreview.com-Lines Under the Sea The Politics of the Middle Easts Data Corridors<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/thecairoreview.com-Lines-Under-the-Sea-The-Politics-of-the-Middle-Easts-Data-Corridors.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-af3b4239-e1df-4948-aa08-f30ae268f136\">T\u00e9l\u00e9charger<\/a><\/div>\n<!-- Facebook Page Plugin by Medust: http:\/\/medust.com -->\r\n\t\t<div class=\"fb-recommendations-bar\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/lines-under-the-sea-the-politics-of-the-middle-easts-data-corridors\/\" data-read-time=\"5\" data-side=\"\" data-action=\"like\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samir Aita The Middle East is using fiber to rebuild the transit economy it once framed around oil and the Suez Canal. Which routes get laid will depend as much on security and sovereignty as on engineering, with the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/lines-under-the-sea-the-politics-of-the-middle-easts-data-corridors\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activites-recentes","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economistes-arabes.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}