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Published in: HomeLooking for dignity elsewhere: Tunisian youth fleeing the birthplace of the Arab springFrustration in Tunisia is growing especially among the youth who remain marginalized even though they were the ones...
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Published in: HomePlus ça change: Egypt
The way they have reacted on several issues gives the impression that what they are working to achieve is a...
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Published in: HomeOverestimating Turkey’s influence in the Middle East
Turkey’s desire to re-orient its foreign policy towards the Middle East and gain influence with the Arab Awakening...
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Published in: HomeA new bearded face to the Egyptian police?
On Wednesday, September 5, the request some police officers lodged to be allowed to grow a beard, was rejected.
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Published in: HomeThe IMF loan to Egypt, and why we reject itThe proposed $4.8bn IMF loan to Egypt sparked a heated controversy. While the Government claims the funds are...
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Published in: HomeThe United Arab Emirates: frontiers of the Arab Spring
The United Arab Emirates has yet to face Arab Spring street protests, as have Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and its other...
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Published in: HomeAmerica, Israel, Iran: the war options
A pressure-cooker mix of electoral, technical and diplomatic factors is shaping the potential for conflict over Iran.
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Published in: HomeThe failure of democracy under Islamism
The fall of autocratic regimes in the Arab world have led to the inevitable rise to power of Islamist groups who...
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Published in: openIndiaEliminating the middle man: the Indian government’s contempt for civil societyIn India, the concept of civil society is only a nascent one, but the authorities already view it with suspicion....
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Published in: HomeDR Congo: the politics of suffering
A rise in violent tension in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, across the border from Rwanda, is the...
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Published in: openSecurityLackland Air Force sexual abuse: glimpse of the ‘real’ scandal of the US military
What can we learn about militarised ideas of gender from the Lackland Air Force scandal? Military inquiries focus on...
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Published in: openSecurityAre conflict minerals making war less profitable?
What's up with conflict minerals? Is the global economy ready for regulation that targets the economies of warlords...
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Published in: HomeThe Taliban and Afghanistan’s war
The pattern of war in Afghanistan is changing amid evolving relationships within the Taliban, between the movement...
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Published in: HomeSyria: why we can’t give up on diplomacyOn 1 September, Lakhdar Brahimi took over from Kofi Annan as UN-Arab League envoy to Syria. His task is not an...
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Published in: HomeSyria’s dismemberment: fulfilling the French Mandate’s vision?Could the neglected strength of the mainstream Muslim community – a vestige of the Ottoman self-governing...
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Published in: openSecurityExploring the more subtle signs of potential sectarian spill-over into Lebanon
The former Information Minister has been apprehended trying to smuggle explosives into Lebanon. Away from the media...
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Published in: HomeThis week's window on the Middle East - September 3, 2012
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East....
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Published in: HomeEgypt and Iran: it’s complicated
For years, Egypt has been frustrated at being sidelined in the regional order. If Iran was surprised at Morsi’s bold...
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Published in: HomeThe FSA: how to lose support and alienate people in no time
Many opposition communities embraced and sponsored the fighters, who represented at that time the local defenders of...
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Published in: HomeCrackdown on free media in Tunisia
Stifling the media can lead to the emergence of robust new media, like those that accelerated the end of some of the...
