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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPopular oral culture and sectarianism, a materialist analysis
How and by whom is sectarianism produced and maintained? And for what reasons?العربية
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaInterview with the Free Women’s Movement (TJA) in North Kurdistan
“Actually we have been calling our experience World War III. This is a war of destruction. The state does not call...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAfter all, Iraq’s ethno-sectarian quota remains
So long as the ethno-sectarian quota exists, a political class that serves foreign interests will continue to...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFamine in Yemen: long announced, now on our screens
What are world leaders doing? Where is the ‘international community’ Yemenis so often appeal to?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIranian pseudo anti-imperialism
The first prerequisite of fighting imperialism is to fight the imperialist relations at home.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCorruption corrodes Kurdish education
Quality education from the outset can eradicate corruption, guarantee peaceful coexistence, and bring about social...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaState violence and the illusions of modernity in Egypt
The constant state of denial that is a feature of the urban middle class and the regime is a necessity to maintain a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMorocco: military service and education reform promise more repression
The reinstatement of compulsory military service in this context of growing tensions is meant to be used for social control.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe West’s approach to Saudi Arabia: ‘one step forward, two steps back’
Western powers are actively enabling the very human rights violations they seek to expose.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRacism, sectarianism or sexism? On Damascus and the Syrian demographic barcode
I am not surprised that many of my friends from our “fancy” neighborhood were really aghast at the level of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOn memorizing the Fatiha
With the outbreak of the revolution in Syria, I felt I needed to justify my stance vis-à-vis this revolution, since...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhen an Alawite man and a Sunni woman put love to the test
We should opt for a more genuine and balanced approach to identity, beginning with acknowledging differences and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Iran that is accepted in Syria
It is clear that there is consensus among the parties to the Syrian conflict to end or reduce the growing role of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe only Jewish state in the Middle East
Israel is proving to the world that it is most certainly not a state of all its citizens.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLiving the double life: behind the lies of women's daily lives in Egypt
The consequences of living this sort of double-life go far beyond family disagreements.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaViolence in Moroccan universities: a problem worth addressing
Violence between Morocco’s young political activists is the product of a deeply divided political society that has...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe first commune in Kobane: construction and challenges
A story of the creation of the first commune in Kobane, and the struggle against authoritarianism within.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe ancient city of Damascus: Shwam, and what I know about them
Ancient history, as well as political and demographic changes, shaped the relationship between the Shwam and other...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSudan and the uphill war on inflation: context and bleak prospects
It is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine the continuity of the NCP leadership in the face of sustained...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAhed Tamimi: illegally blond
The racialisation of blond operates on many levels in Israeli society and is related to a complex and multilayered...