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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Is it time for the European Union to reconsider its approach towards Hamas?
The EU's isolation policy towards Hamas has not worked. Instead it may be reinforcing dangerous dynamics in the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt: pardon evokes frustration rather than celebration
Think about the thousands who are held in prison, with or without charge, with or without trials, who are not...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIn defence of Tunisia’s democratic sovereignty
Tunisia's sovereignty is already at risk, and its destiny now seems to depend largely on negotiations between an...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia'Something wicked this way comes': the Arab transitions (part 2)
An excerpt from a NOREF report on the background to the current situation in the Middle East, focusing on the...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia'Something wicked this way comes': the Arab transitions (part 1)
An excerpt from a NOREF report on the background to the current situation in the Middle East, focusing on the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia: transitional justice in the crosshairs
A proposed 'economic reconciliation' law will provide impunity for corruption and economic crimes, threatening the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOn Arab Awakening: a response
Can the mass uprisings that happened across the Arab world in 2011 accurately be called an awakening? The editors of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOn 'Arab Awakening'
What's in a name? A critical look at our choice of page title some years after the so called Arab Spring.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSeven myths about democracy in Morocco
Morocco: stable, reformist, and taking steady if slow steps towards democracy—right? Wrong. Some common myths debunked.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe rebirth of Iraqi cinema
A group of young Iraqi filmmakers are working on creating a local film industry, in an attempt to present...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia's entrepreneurial spirit
Tunisia's startups are not the cure-all to the country's profound economic problems, but they're a step in the right...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEconomic reforms for Tunisia in 2015 and beyond
It is just as important for Tunisia to address economic as security threats. Three key reforms can help maintain...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCorruption: the Tunisian transition's worst enemy
The key to facing the challenge of radicalisation, while maintaining and making tangible the democratic gains since...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe right to resist in occupied Palestine: denial and suppression
The right of Palestinians to resist their occupation is enshrined in international and customary law, a fact that is...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe impact of the coalition on Ennahda and Nidaa Tounes
The multi-party government in Tunisia has shown the parties' willingness and ability to compromise, but has also...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA question of sovereignty, justice and dignity: the people vs. the government on fracking in Algeria
The call for national mobilisation to oppose shale-gas exploitation in Algeria has been a success. But despite...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIntra-Arab discrimination in Dearborn
Arab communities in America can reproduce white supremacist racial hierarchies, whereby certain Arab ethnic groups...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaProtests in Algeria intensify as shale-gas drilling continues
The ongoing anti-shale gas protests in southern Algeria look increasingly like a head-to-head confrontation between...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDecolonising Palestinian economies
There are at least five different economies in Palestine that co-exist with the Israeli economy, and they are all...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaShale gas in Algeria: anger mounts as the government lies by omission
Protests break out across Algeria against the shale drilling ambitions of the government and European multinationals.