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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionLooking back, looking forward: inheriting the revolutions of the ‘Arab Spring’To mark the tenth anniversary of the ‘Arab Spring’, the Transnational Institute has produced a dossier documenting...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionCan worsening economies and increasing repression herald a new Arab Spring?North Africa today is reminiscent of the period leading up to the 2011 uprisings. Tensions are further aggravated by...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionLooking through a single lens can distort how we view the Arab SpringInequality shapes citizens’ views over whether their country has improved and so a deeper dive is needed to...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisThe EU and UK are releasing the money of deposed dictatorsWhy is the EU lifting sanctions on politicians accused of corruption in Egypt, Tunisia and Ukraine, when so little...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWomen’s rights have improved in North Africa, but the struggle continuesTen years after the Arab Spring uprisings, we looked at the impact on women’s rights in the Maghreb.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s ‘watermelon democracy’: an interview with Joshua StacherWhy is Egypt in its current state? And what happened to the revolution? An interview with Joshua Stacher about his new book.
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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: ourEconomyTurkey does imperialism: Turkish foreign policy in the Middle EastTo understand Turkey’s actions in the Middle East, we need to grasp its precarious place in world capitalism.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Arab spring is still aliveLibya and Sudan prove that the simple struggle for freedom and democracy persists in the region. It’s the world that...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Tunisian revolution seven years onSeven years after the Tunisian revolution one can dissect four main conflict issues in Tunisia today.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe return of authoritarianism is priming the Middle East for more conflictHow is the Saudi-Iranian rivalry overwriting the Arab Spring’s key messages?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCritical voices in critical times: revolution without revolutionaries, an interview with Asef BayatAsef Bayat talks about revolutions and revolutionary ideas, the place of ordinary people in social transformation,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow communication technology became a tool of repression: the case of the UAEWith the help of international ‘cyber security dealers’, the internet has been transformed into a central component...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPolitical Islam in Tunisia: a history of Ennahda and the Tunisian exceptionA review of Anne Wolf's Political Islam in Tunisia: A History of Ennahda, a book that presents the hidden history of...
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Published in: HomeThe seeds of the next Arab SpringA new report suggests that Arab youth continue to be neglected – and that demographic shifts are incubating another...
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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 AsiaOn Arab Awakening: a responseCan 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 AsiaMissing journalists: Tunisia’s Arab Spring meets Libya’sTwo radically different “Arab Springs” have collided in the ordeal of two Tunisian journalists in Libya.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia takes steps on the road toward democracyThe Arab Spring has regained force in Tunisia as the country takes important steps towards the democratic foundation...
