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Published in: HomeViolent Islamism is gaining the upper hand in Afghanistan and AfricaMilitary responses haven’t defeated the Taliban and won’t stop ISIS, but the West refuses to address the root causes...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWelcome to the Palestine archipelagoTrump’s so called “deal of the century” is an assault on the Palestinian narrative even before it is an assault on...
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Published in: Global ExtremesIs Al-Azhar pushing the envelope?Shaykh al-Azhar, Ahmed al-Tayyib criticised the state of Arabs and Muslims worldwide – including, one presumes, its rulers.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEthiopians in Lebanon: between revolution and slaveryThe Ethiopian government continues to sidestep taking any meaningful action to rescue citizens trapped in revolution...
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Published in: HomeBomb Idlib’s civilians, win the war: what the West taught Assad and PutinThe tactics of Syrian and Russian forces are unforgiveable – but scarcely different to what the US and its allies...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMubarak dead: the age of silenceMubarak’s reign, the revolt against it, and all the tragedies that followed, remain as a stark reminder of what...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNetanyahu’s new settlements, courtesy of TrumpExplicit American support provides the Israeli government with the confidence in order to keep, consolidate, and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIranian hardliners 'engineer’ parliamentary elections in a show of defianceMany in Iran had foreseen the outcome since 2018 when President Trump first sealed the fate of the reformists by...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFilming Syria: the politics of accessDoes Ahmad Ghossein's film contribute to the erasure of the history of the Syrian revolution?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIran’s ongoing war against its religious minoritiesIran celebrates the 41st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution by continuing its ongoing war against religious minorities.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSettlement expansion in the Occupied West Bank – Part 2: resisting disrupted futuresIsrael’s settlement expansion in the West Bank is a key part of an infrastructure of oppression, which deprives...
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Published in: Home: OpinionPeace in Afghanistan will be victory for the Taliban, a failure for the westThe Taliban remain strong despite everything the US is throwing at them – but how serious is Trump about a peace deal?
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia“The deal of the century”: how global media silenced the PalestiniansNews media coverage of the “deal of the century” was deafening in its silence on international law and the...
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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: ourEconomyYemen’s deadly ghost shipAn abandoned oil tanker with over a million barrels of oil on board is an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaChronicles from the deadly sea: the reluctant shipwreckedAn often untold story about rescue missions in the Mediterranean.
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Published in: Home: OpinionIran’s retaliatory strike did far more damage than Trump will admitWith reports of dozens of casualties, US military planners may be reticent to escalate conflict.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYemen Hopes and Expectations - Part 4: a looming environmental disasterRisk of a catastrophic oil spill, alarming water shortages and pollution, climate change, and other environmental...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSettlement expansion in the Occupied West Bank – Part 1: unjust pasts and interrupted futuresAs Trump and Netanyahu propose an imbalanced and unjust “peace plan,” Palestinians continue to resist a complex...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationHow openDemocracy is tracking anti-abortion misinformation around the worldNine months ago, we began following the money of two US religious right groups. Then, we deployed our own global...
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