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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s uncertain road to prosperity: economic challenges to long‐term stabilityThe livelihoods of the Egyptian people are a political priority. In the 1990s, at the behest of the IMF and the US,...
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Published in: openSecurityEurope and NATO's response to the Arab Uprisings
Western governments need to recognize that authoritarian regimes are often fierce but not strong; that privatisation...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: will there be a place for women's human rights?
In the days ahead a struggle looms over women's human rights and gender justice in Egypt. Will the Muslim Sisters...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPolitical Islam in Egypt: a bright future
Contrary to the fears of some western observers, Islam has had a strong tradition of rule of law and religious and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia: a year of all dangers
Tunisia is both the pioneer of the Arab spring and its greatest success so far. But even here the political and...
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Published in: 50.50Why women are at the heart of Egypt’s political trials and tribulations
The Egyptian elections delivered a parliament that has one of the lowest rates of female representation in the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaArab Spring: political islam or democracy?
One-year on, the Arab revolutions continue to circle around the issue of whether Islam is compatible with democracy....
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe politics of Egypt’s electionsThe military may wish to maintain its economic and political stranglehold, the Brotherhood may feel its time has...
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Published in: HomeTunisia: brief encounters, Part 1The author, who travelled to Tunisia last April, recorded her multicultural experiences at a time of revolution to...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaReady, set, crawl!
Despite protests and intense political pressure on Prime Minister Maliki’s coalition government, reforms in Iraq are...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTurkey as a model of democracy and Islam
Democracies are about more than elections and majorities: they require genuine separation of powers, autonomous...
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Published in: 50.50Promise and peril: women and the ‘Arab spring’
Women were visible and effective in the popular revolts in Tunisia and Egypt. Will this moment of opening yield...
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Published in: HomeEgypt's post-democratic elections: political meaning beyond the menu of manipulation
Egypt's recent elections went very much as expected. This, however, doesn't mean they were insignificant.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIsrael: the writing on the wall
Successive Israeli cabinets have worked to enforce on the ground in Jerusalem and the Occupied Territories a...