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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCashing in on the human rights regime
When all a politician needs to do is to pay the price of his/her misdemeanor and move on—which does not even come...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanese women and full citizenship rights: a mesh of patriarchy, politics and confessionalism
Despite some grandstanding by high-ranking politicians stating that Lebanese women should have full citizenship...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia'Too moral' to run for a democratic government? We might think again
Respect for the rule of law, human rights and freedom of expression – how to implement these practices should be the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next Door
The author considers how education may impact on a society's growing propensity to resort to violence. This column...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Egyptian coup and Hamas
In the face of disinformation, both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood need to redeem the 'Islamist' brand as a whole...
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Published in: 50.50No woman’s body should be a battlefield
25 years after Women in Black was founded by Israeli and Palestinian women working together for peace, Sue Finch and...
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Published in: 50.50Sudanese women: you can beat us but you cannot break us
Amira Osman is awaiting trial for refusing to cover her hair. She is one of thousands of Sudanese women who are...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Where Turkish politics meets football: AKP's offside goal against 'Çarşı'
ÇARŞI are being painted as the culprits of the pitch invasion and violence of the Sunday game. However, the 'losing...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSudan: a revolution in the making?
The community in Sudan is a close one: everybody already knows someone who has died during the protests. This is...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEdward Said - 10 years on
A decade after his premature departure, Said’s life, in all its “disorganised, scattered, uncentred” richness will...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt in the balance: what the blogs are saying 17 - 22 September
This 'You tell us' feature offers some first hand accounts and a range of opinions in blogs, articles and tweets,...
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Published in: HomeThe Oslo ‘peace accords’: a psycho-political perspective
For us Israelis, equality is an impossible mental mission.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt in the balance: what the blogs are saying 9 - 16 September
This 'You tell us' feature offers some first hand accounts and a range of opinions in blogs, articles and tweets,...
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Published in: Home“Oslo Peace” twenty years on: part 2
Twenty years in twenty photographs. See the introduction here in part 1.
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Published in: Home“Oslo Peace” twenty years on
Are there any Israelis and Palestinians who still believe in peace between them? Yes, there are, but they are...
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Published in: HomeProtests and prayers are more alike than they seem
What are we to do, having faced the dual anniversary of a sacred tradition of repentance and a peace agreement in...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy, Syria and the western way of war
The manner in which the Syrian crisis has been addressed by western polities signals a shift, at least for now, in...
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Published in: HomeResistance culture: an East Jerusalem neighbourhood continues the fight
Resistance in Issawiya and the violence that often accompanies it, is not fetishized but understood as the only...
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Published in: HomeSyria isn’t Kosovo and this isn’t 1999. Not even close
Grasping at vague notions of Kosovo as a ‘good war’ may be expedient - any precedent will do in a pinch. But this...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt in the balance: what the blogs are saying 28 August - 8 September
This Arab Awakening space for excerpts of articles, blogs and tweets is a weekly holding operation for those trying...