Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Genevieve Theodorakis graduated from the LSE in December 2012 with an MSc in Global Politics, specialising in the Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa. She currently works as an analyst for a global publishing company with a focus on the Middle East and Francophone Africa.
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Published in: HomeProspects for a GCC-Iranian rapprochement?A US-Iranian rapprochement over Iran's nuclear programme could improve general US-Iranian relations, leading to the...
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Published in: HomeSectarian identities in Syria: pushed to the brink?Failure to consider the potency of sectarian identities in Syria may produce the opposite effect intended for a...
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Published in: HomeContradiction and carelessness in the Syrian situation
Since July 2012, the death toll in Syria exploded from 19,000 deaths to over 100,000 casualties. These deaths are...
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Published in: HomeTunisia’s turning point
Tunisia’s second high-profile political assassination highlights the gravest shortcoming of the nascent Islamist...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIslam and democracy: Tunisia at a crossroads
Ennahda's attempts to institutionalise its power and silence its opposition cannot be condoned. Nevertheless,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s uncertain road to prosperity: economic challenges to long‐term stability
The livelihoods of the Egyptian people are a political priority. In the 1990s, at the behest of the IMF and the US,...