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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: HomeMorocco, tensions of progressMorocco has avoided the violence and instability of neighbours to the west. But to build a more inclusive economy it...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSeven myths about democracy in MoroccoMorocco: stable, reformist, and taking steady if slow steps towards democracy—right? Wrong. Some common myths debunked.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next DoorThe writer reflects on the role of language, foreign and Arabic, colloquial and classical, in Morocco; and on the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next DoorThe author considers the wave of gory Isis propaganda and the violent wielding of an old tool with new vectors, a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Arab millennials will be back
Like much of the rest of the Arab Spring, the urge of the millennial generation across North Africa and the Middle...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMoroccan political cinema and the Arab Spring: an interview with Hicham LasriI was interested by the electricity in the air, the aggression and the disarray of those in power.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThis week's window on the Middle East - May 22, 2014Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East....
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAllah, the state, or Mom?
Three characteristics are often viewed as important in Arab societies: concern over politics, the place of religion,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe fate of Gulf migrant workers is deeply connected to the fate of the Arab uprisingsThe more the Gulf states pay a reputational cost in the west for maintaining this system of exploitation, the harder...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next DoorThe author asks how small children will survive sukuns - Morocco's spoken tongue; ponders the word "museum"; and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?In the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, the bloody realities of 'Fortress Europe' become apparentOn February 6th, fifteen migrants died while trying to enter the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in North Africa. The...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBliss Was It in that Dawn to Be Next DoorThe author ponders literacy, the literate 'red blood corpuscles of society', and the way Arabic is taught in the...
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Published in: HomeThe Battle of Algiers: a formative influence on Moroccan cinemaLaying bare the social and economic structures of oppression to reconstruct a national psyche from the ruins – how...
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Published in: HomeBliss Was It in that Dawn to be Next DoorIn which our author underestimates the good vibrations in British Film Week in Morocco, enjoys a steel band, and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThis week's window on the Middle East - November 5, 2013
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: North Africa, West AsiaAlgerian-Moroccan relations: between tensions and hopes
How the two sides can find a workable arrangement that doesn’t look like a climb-down by either party remains to be...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageGerçek anlamda kökleşmiş bir insan hakları hareketi için çabalarEn ileri insan hakları algılaması anketlerini kullanan yazarlar, Meksika, Fas ve Hindistan gibi ülkelerdeki...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThis week's window on the Middle East - October 18, 2013
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: Can Europe Make It?A Moroccan view on Catalan independence
Madrid's continued support for the independence movement in the Western Sahara is hypocritical when compared with...
