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Middle East Forum

The Middle East Forum is a project that encourages emerging young voices to express themselves, exchange views and be heard. The project provides participants with a series of workshops to develop writing skills, media presence, and digital security as well as a free discussion space where they have the capacity to debate constructively. Participants in the forum host speakers, acquire skills, share knowledge, and give feedback to one another. This page shares with our readers some of the highlights and outcomes on various topics and issues that the participants have engaged in throughout our Egypt and Syria programmes, to launch what we hope will become an exciting online space in English and Arabic for vibrant regional debate...

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يهود طليطلة: لاجئون سوريّون في ألمانيا

24 February 2019

Written by: وسيم الشرقي All articles by وسيم الشرقي

ليس بجديد القول إنّ الحنين إلى "الأندلس" يعتبر جزءاً من الحنين العربي للماضي الإمبراطوري للدولة العربية
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السينما والمسرح داخل السجون التونسية

8 January 2019

Written by: أميرة مهذب All articles by أميرة مهذب

لا أنكر أبداً سعادتي بهذه التجربة التونسية المتفردة في بلادنا الناطقة باللغة العربية، والتي تعدّ نموذجاً يمكن تصديره...

Forum articles

Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Tunisia: Ben Ali left without facing justice

Written by: Safa Belghith All articles by: Safa Belghith
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The Dangerous Dance: Syrians in the New Year’s Eve

Written by: وسيم الشرقي All articles by: وسيم الشرقي
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The elephant at the state of the "upper-side"

Written by: Ali Ghaith All articles by: Ali Ghaith
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The ‘Soyas’: Egypt’s car park mafias

Written by: Farah Hallaba All articles by: Farah Hallaba
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Transitional justice in Tunisia: the truth behind the trials

Written by: Safa Belghith All articles by: Safa Belghith
Published in: Home
Feminism in Tunisia: brutal hijacking, elitism and exclusion

Written by: Chouaib ElHajjaji All articles by: Chouaib ElHajjaji
Published in: Home
The politics of education in East Jerusalem

Written by: Ali Ghaith All articles by: Ali Ghaith
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The story of Saida Manoubiya: A Tunisian feminist icon

Written by: Safa Belghith All articles by: Safa Belghith
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Palestinian Jerusalemites leading Israelis towards normalisation

Written by: Ali Ghaith All articles by: Ali Ghaith
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Education and orientalist discourse

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
"Big Brother": the art of subversion

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Black Tunisian women: ceaseless erasure and post-racial illusion

Written by: Chouaib ElHajjaji All articles by: Chouaib ElHajjaji
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The return of the Ultras Ahlawy?

Written by: Hesham Shafick All articles by: Hesham Shafick
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Power and the divine: self-repression in Egypt

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
How will a Syrian child delete the image of his poverty from search engines?

Written by: جوان سوز All articles by: جوان سوز
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Meet the Tunisian drag queen defying the odds

Written by: Chouaib ElHajjaji All articles by: Chouaib ElHajjaji
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Wives of ‘muhajirin’: who’s your husband?

Written by: مجاهد أبو الجود All articles by: مجاهد أبو الجود
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Sisi’s coronation and the Egyptian opposition

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Tunisia: selective feminism and the marginalization of women’s struggles

Written by: Safa Belghith All articles by: Safa Belghith
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Tunisians oppose the IMF

Written by: Ines Mahmoud All articles by: Ines Mahmoud
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The tentacles of autocratic regimes: the case of Egypt

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Sisi, the guardian of sexual morals

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
مصر: جريمة مسجد الروضة قد تتكرر

Written by: محمد أحمد أبو أحمد All articles by: محمد أحمد أبو أحمد
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The struggle for survival – what’s next for Syrian journalism?

Written by: جوان سوز All articles by: جوان سوز
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Syrian cultural policies in Turkey: Islamists and secularists beyond the wall – Part II

Written by: وسيم الشرقي All articles by: وسيم الشرقي
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
A ghost with red nail polish

Written by: فرح يوسف All articles by: فرح يوسف
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Syrian cultural work in Turkey: the marginalization continues – Part I

Written by: وسيم الشرقي All articles by: وسيم الشرقي
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Egypt’s faltering counter-insurgency strategy

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: Home
Why I write

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Pain, torture and alienation

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Seeking refuge in refugees

Written by: Sarah El Sheikh All articles by: Sarah El Sheikh
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The weakening of Egypt’s regional role

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The changing security dynamic in the Red Sea

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Egypt without Egyptians: the story of the Red Sea islands

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Sisi’s neoliberal assault: context and prospects

Written by: Sameh Naguib All articles by: Sameh Naguib
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The revolutionary arena: a battle of minds

Written by: Wael Eskandar All articles by: Wael Eskandar
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Crossing the rubicon: how Egypt’s government and public opinion reshaped the Ultras legacy

Written by: Karim Zidan All articles by: Karim Zidan
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Pain and torture: state violence in Egypt

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Sports and politics
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The military industrial complex
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Help us rename Arab Awakening!
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Whatever is happening to the Egyptians?
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The regional implications of the fall of Aleppo

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Ultras in mourning: how a massacre, revolutionary aftermath and politics killed Egyptian football

Written by: Karim Zidan All articles by: Karim Zidan
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Human rights’ universality and correlation with culture

Written by: Farah Hallaba All articles by: Farah Hallaba
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Trump, Putin, and the new Middle East

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Football’s martyrs: how the Ultras become revolutionaries

Written by: Karim Zidan All articles by: Karim Zidan
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Whatever is happening to the Egyptians, Pt. 5: colonizing Egyptian bodies

Written by: Hesham Shafick All articles by: Hesham Shafick
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Egypt's Military Inc.

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Sports, politics, revolution: how a hardcore football fan club impacted Egyptian consciousness

Written by: Karim Zidan All articles by: Karim Zidan
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
On megalomania and despair: is Sisi really nuts?

Written by: Sarah Adel All articles by: Sarah Adel
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Whose revolution?

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Whatever happened to the Egyptians, Pt.4: would-be aristocrats

Written by: Hesham Shafick All articles by: Hesham Shafick
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The genealogy of the Effendy

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
On the absence of Arab intellectuals: counter-revolution and the state

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
An Egyptian bystander in Turkey

Written by: Farah Hallaba All articles by: Farah Hallaba
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Turkey 2016 and Egypt 2013: the politics of time

Written by: Hesham Shafick All articles by: Hesham Shafick
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Ramadan and the police

Written by: Farah Hallaba All articles by: Farah Hallaba
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
On patriotism

Written by: Rockaya Abdel Hady All articles by: Rockaya Abdel Hady
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Other erratic nations of our time

Written by: Ahmed Zakaria All articles by: Ahmed Zakaria
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The wave of democracy in Egypt

Written by: Mohamed Hamdy All articles by: Mohamed Hamdy
Published in: Home
Job: Arab Awakening Lead Editor

Written by: openDemocracy Opendemocracy All articles by: openDemocracy Opendemocracy
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
On the absence of Arab intellectuals: the colonial connection

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Can Islamism provide deliverance?

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Who is afraid of the urban poor?

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Why is a military coup in Saudi Arabia possible?

Written by: Hesham Shafick All articles by: Hesham Shafick
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Hatred for authority and self-loathing

Written by: Ahmed Zakaria All articles by: Ahmed Zakaria
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Can Sisi stop Egypt’s implosion?

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
A fascist history of the Egyptian revolution III: phase two, from the numinous to the real

Written by: Mohamed Hasan All articles by: Mohamed Hasan

Written by: Hesham Shafick All articles by: Hesham Shafick
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
On the spectacle of violence

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Where are the workers?

Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by: Maged Mandour
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The thin line between pride and shame

Written by: Ahmed Zakaria All articles by: Ahmed Zakaria
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
The missing element in Egypt: a sense of belonging

Written by: Sarah El Sheikh All articles by: Sarah El Sheikh
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
دعوة للمدونين في مصر

Written by: Arab Awakening All articles by: Arab Awakening
Published in: North Africa, West Asia
Call for columnists in Egypt

Written by: Arab Awakening All articles by: Arab Awakening