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Published in: HomeIs the USA withdrawing from the Middle East?An increasingly limited US influence in the Middle East is exacerbated by policies that aggravate conflicts and lead...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIt was a bloodbath in Iran, but why should you care?A radical shift in understanding international relations is needed to form an unapologetically socialist and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe poverty of protestUntil the opposition is able to mature and offer a cohesive alternative, the old regimes will remain in power.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Syrian public and its cinema: funding priorities - Part IIDo Syrian directors or producers have a role in determining the target audience?
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Published in: HomeOnly up to your knees : Nick Cave, Ghosteen and PalestineSomething is amiss when such a deep-thinker as Nick Cave becomes inured to the inherent and violent racisms that...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIn the Arab region, education cannot waitNew Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report published by UNESCO shows forced displacement holding back a generation...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe revolution has died: Iranian protests in panoramic perspectiveThe recent protests draw the final curtain on a story that began with the revolution of 1979 and its aspiration for...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Syrian public and its cinema: A tale of estrangement - Part IBetween stories that tell their daily lives before another audience and films that broadcast the regime’s ideology,...
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Published in: 50.50“I can’t turn my back on suffering”: The fearless few lawyers defending LGBTIQ people in North AfricaIn Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, these lawyers face a backlash from all sides. How can you access justice if no one...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe sovereign exception: law and justice in Palestine and beyondNoura Erakat’s new book, Justice for Some, provides a compelling account of the relationship between international...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSeven Ethiopians die in Lebanon while their consulate abandons themThe steady stream of coffins being shipped from Lebanon to Ethiopia, won’t be slowing any time soon.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAn Iranian crisis of representationThe recent round of spontaneous protests against the petrol price hike has to be contextualized as part of the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaExtractivism and resistance in North AfricaShould we see protests, uprisings and movements against extractivism as mainly environmental, or are these...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia‘Empower a woman, empower an eco-system’Women and girls are at the forefront of the battle against climate change, as migrants and refugees, but also as caretakers.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA country is in the making: report from Baghdad’s occupied Tahrir squareAfter the death of hundreds of people since the eruption of Iraq’s revolution in October, there is no return to the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaUS and Iran both need a new dealBreaking the current impasse requires an interim gesture by the US which provides Iran with the incentive it needs...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAlgeria: there is no political reform without freedom of expression and mediaThe window of opportunity to implement true reforms, guaranteed by explicit laws and grounded in practice, is now.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaReporting from the ground: an interview with Zahra HankirTelling stories of resilience by women journalists in the Middle East.
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Published in: ourEconomyCelebrating poverty: the IMF in EgyptUnder IMF reforms, a third of Egyptians are living in poverty. But western institutions are celebrating their ‘success’.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why it keeps kicking off everywhere: ‘Order’ versus social justice from the Balkans, to the Middle East, to the AndesThis is a cold war fought by “leaders” willing to maintain their privilege at all costs, to the detriment of a...