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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt in the balance: what the blogs are saying 9 - 16 SeptemberThis '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 2Twenty years in twenty photographs. See the introduction here in part 1.
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Published in: Home“Oslo Peace” twenty years onAre 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 warThe 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 fightResistance 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...
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Published in: HomeWhat to do in Syria?
The war in Syria is illegal. If a criminal had poisoned someone, our concern would be how to protect the public from...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAfter Egypt and Syria, there's never a worse time to host an arms fairThe world's largest arms fair is happening in London - with a little help from the government. After events in Syria...
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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: HomeRed lines and dangerous incoherence: Syria and the international community
While the region slips further into instability, the rejection of military action over Syria by the US Congress...
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Published in: HomeSyria: return to the Middle Ages
If the US decides to unilaterally attack Syria, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s recent observations on the...
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Published in: HomeWelcoming the vote of the British Parliament while supporting the Syrian uprising
The best way to “punish” the Syrian regime is to enable the popular uprising to break it, not to bomb the country.
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Published in: HomeA partial victory, but a victory
British MPs’ arguments and information were influenced by a strong public opinion against such a war, itself a...
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Published in: openSecurityQuestions raised and risks posed by Syrian intervention. Part Two
Part Two of an analysis of the geopolitical sectarian dynamics and possible fall-out of military intervention in...
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Published in: openSecurityQuestions raised and risks posed by Syrian intervention
Part One of a two-part analysis of the geopolitical sectarian dynamics and possible fall-out of military...
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Published in: HomeSyria: do something
Western readers need to understand why some Syrians support, while others oppose, a military intervention in their country.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt in the balance: what the blogs are saying 22-27 August
This Arab Awakening space for excerpts of articles, blogs and tweets is a weekly holding operation for those trying...
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Published in: HomeMass slaughter of civilian Kurds in Syria ignites heavy clashes and mass exodusThe al-Qaeda linked “Jabhat al-Nusra” (al-Nusra Front) in Syria, stands accused of instigating a sectarian racist...