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Published in: HomeAl-Qaeda post-Bin Laden: what next?The Salafi-jihadist movement is losing its recruitment pool in the Arab world. Its latest strategies look elsewhere,...
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Published in: HomeRefolution in the Arab worldA new word is needed to describe these events of recent months. They should be called ‘refolutions’, radical...
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Published in: HomeWhat Egypt should learn from Iraq
The Iraqi experience of creating a new constitution from political and social ruin offers lessons for Egypt, says...
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Published in: HomeGaza on my mind
The latest of the theatre director’s ‘strange days’ in Cairo, while waiting to hear if he and his partner have...
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Published in: HomeThe other Arab exception
The Arab revolutions of 2011 have disproved one argument about the Arabs only to raise another, says Hazem Saghieh.
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Published in: HomeGaza Theatre
A theatre director is stuck in Cairo waiting to hear if he and his partner have permission to enter Gaza. These...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab spring: protest, power, prospect
What is the “Arab spring” becoming? After three months of upheaval, repression and conflict, the democracy wave in...
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Published in: HomeThe curious case of Mr Nada
Human rights are undermined in the war on terror by the widespread use of blacklists.
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Published in: HomeThe Arab Revolution will not be televised in Latin America
The position of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) on the crisis...
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Published in: HomeConsolidating emerging MENA democracies
Democracy is once again the challenge. Overcoming divisions through the development of new welfare systems will be...
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Published in: HomeTackling corruption in revolutionary Egypt
"Corruption" is the word on every Egyptian's lips as the misuse of public funds and office is exposed from Mubarak...
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Published in: HomeArab revolutions, Turkey’s dilemmas: zero chance for "zero problems"
Turkey’s ambition of becoming a regional power with global relevance is reflected in the domestic and foreign policy...
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Published in: HomeThe advantage of not understanding politics
The Arab uprisings have proved very different in type to those in Iran, in terms of the scale, scope, both their...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab Revolutions: an end to the post-1967 problematic
Tunis and Egypt, despite still being the minority, have become the new rule, with the rest of the regimes being the...
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Published in: HomeA new window for academic freedom in EgyptThe end of Mubarak’s thirty years reign may mark an opportunity to revive the Egyptian universities’ founding ideals...
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Published in: HomeOpposition groups in Egypt must now rise to the challenge of negotiating a good transition
The new regime will not come into being on its own. It needs tough and careful negotiation so that the right balance...
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Published in: HomeEgypt’s new politics: the democratic test
Egyptians managed by peaceful protest to force the removal of their president. With barely a pause, they are now...
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Published in: HomeLibya: the prospect of war
The military balance of Libya’s domestic conflict is raising debate about external intervention. But the strategy of...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab revolt and the colour revolutions
The fate of the popular insurgencies in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and elsewhere in the early-mid 2000s could offer...
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Published in: HomeIsrael and the Arab awakening
Israel’s political class is struggling to make sense of a crumbling Arab order and the loss of the certainties it...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
