On 11 March 2022, Dr Ismail Selim, Director of CRCICA, on occasion of an International Arbitration Seminar Online, in Uruguay on International Trade, Investment and Arbitration, delivered a speech on the status of International Arbitration in Africa and the Middle-East. The speech also included comments about jurisprudence and arbitral institutional decisions vis-à-vis challenges of arbitrators, advocating for arbitral centres’ jurisdiction and authority to decide on the matter, as permitted by many applicable laws and warranted for others.