The EU's isolation policy towards Hamas has not worked. Instead it may be reinforcing dangerous dynamics in the...

Think about the thousands who are held in prison, with or without charge, with or without trials, who are not...

Tunisia's sovereignty is already at risk, and its destiny now seems to depend largely on negotiations between an...

An excerpt from a NOREF report on the background to the current situation in the Middle East, focusing on the...

An excerpt from a NOREF report on the background to the current situation in the Middle East, focusing on the...

A proposed 'economic reconciliation' law will provide impunity for corruption and economic crimes, threatening the...

Can the mass uprisings that happened across the Arab world in 2011 accurately be called an awakening? The editors of...

What's in a name? A critical look at our choice of page title some years after the so called Arab Spring.

Morocco: stable, reformist, and taking steady if slow steps towards democracy—right? Wrong. Some common myths debunked.

A group of young Iraqi filmmakers are working on creating a local film industry, in an attempt to present...

Tunisia's startups are not the cure-all to the country's profound economic problems, but they're a step in the right...

It is just as important for Tunisia to address economic as security threats. Three key reforms can help maintain...

The key to facing the challenge of radicalisation, while maintaining and making tangible the democratic gains since...

The right of Palestinians to resist their occupation is enshrined in international and customary law, a fact that is...

The multi-party government in Tunisia has shown the parties' willingness and ability to compromise, but has also...

The call for national mobilisation to oppose shale-gas exploitation in Algeria has been a success. But despite...

Arab communities in America can reproduce white supremacist racial hierarchies, whereby certain Arab ethnic groups...

The ongoing anti-shale gas protests in southern Algeria look increasingly like a head-to-head confrontation between...

There are at least five different economies in Palestine that co-exist with the Israeli economy, and they are all...

Protests break out across Algeria against the shale drilling ambitions of the government and European multinationals.