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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNeoliberalism and Iran’s protest movementThe protests in Iran, like those elsewhere, are the outcome of discontent in our circumstance and the present...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe return of ‘class and social justice’ in Iran and TunisiaThe new dimension of these social upheavals was a coalition between young educated people who think they have no...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow Rouhani’s neoliberal policies provoked unrest in IranA closer look at Rouhani’s economic achievements, shows that his administration has had little success and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIran’s mass protests beyond class boundariesIran’s recent protests shattered the myth of the Islamic Republic’s solid base among Iranian working class and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIran’s protesters are secularizing the 1979 revolutionWhat we see happening in Iran is the emergence of a new discourse that combines old traditions and new ideas that...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIran’s protests: time to reformWithout addressing head-on the drivers of the protests and pursuing popular reform, the Iranian leaders are only...
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Published in: HomeIran: the revolt of the deprivedThe gap between power and society is also growing inexorably in Iran.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWill Iraq’s PM embrace a Trump-inspired Saudi-sponsored drive to curb Iranian influence?Trump-MBS strategy has not made significant headway. Will they succeed in escalating anti-Shia confrontation against...
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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 AsiaTo become a bit more human: Review of Belén Fernández, “Letter from Iran”In “Letter from Iran” Belén Fernández reminds us that we—people everywhere—are not Washington cyphers but...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaKurds’ choices: heed history or the US?Who controls Syria’s borders? The US and Israel are encouraging Syrian Kurds to fight the regime and its allies for...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe colonial roots of Trump’s discourse on IranThe colonial image of Persians as hypocritical and unreliable is so deeply entrenched in western imagination, that...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAll ‘hail’ the real kingThe Saudi Monarch’s 4 November purge threatens the kingdom’s longstanding policy on dynastic rule, and paves the way...
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Published in: HomeWestern countries are more secure without nuclear armsNATO’s current nuclear strategy is untenable. Crises during the Cold War reveal that nuclear strategies become...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaContagion effect and the Saudi grand game in the Middle EastThe willingness of Mohammed bin Salman to embark on a series of moves against Iranian power in the Middle East...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRelinquishing the ‘moral high ground’ to IranAny move to dismantle the nuclear deal will only relinquish the moral high ground to Iran, leaving the US as the...
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Published in: HomeEastern Kurdistan: a silent politics with huge casualtiesIt is surely time that organisations that are internally active should dedicate their efforts to resuming activities...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaKurdish struggles and the challenge of foreign support: the case of Syrian KurdsWhat needs discussing critically is the historical and structural reasons that would leave a revolutionary movement...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaKurds in Iraq: from Sykes-Picot to no-fly zones and beyondWill the approaching referendum on independence open up a new phase for the Kurds, abrogating the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
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