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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow to be different together: Algerian lessons for the Tunisian crisisIn light of the crisis currently unfolding in Tunisia - particularly the increasingly strident and incendiary...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaI can’t believe it’s not Qatar!: addressing the Brotherhood’s other patronIf the Arab uprisings have taught us anything, it is that the Arab public represents a formidable challenge to power...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAfter In Amenas: an Algerian perspective
The notion that this episode heralds a real shift in Maghreb-western dynamics is increasingly hard to dismiss.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA crisis in identity: Egypt’s opposition is caught up in a futile debate
Secular versus Islamist barely scratches the surface of the conflicts that best Egypt.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTwo years on: a revolution is a process, not an event
2013 has many surprises in store for Egypt.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTop ten ways to craft and promote your Arab Awakening column
Amro Ali, one of Arab Awakening's columnists from Egypt, presents his personal approach to crafting and promoting...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe upcoming general strike in Tunisia: a historical perspective
The first general strike in Tunisia since 1978 takes place in a much-changed country and against old friends but for...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEating the democratic crumbs from the Arab ruler’s table
The Morsi-Mubarak contrast will eventually wear thin as people demand their human security. All 83 million of them.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Alexandria mafia’s new adversary: civil societyPost-revolutionary Egypt was visited by the semi-break down of law and order, and an Egyptian public that became...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s stake in the Syrian revolutionNumerous segments of the Egyptian public have thrown their weight behind “their” Syrian revolution and cheered for...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s history repeating itself fallacy
Questions are being asked, is Egypt going to become like 1979 Iran, 1991 Algeria, Old model Turkey, 1999 Pakistan,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s morning after: against Dictatorship 2.0
With Egypt’s first elected leader, Mohamed Morsi, SCAF is no longer going to be grooming a fourth military dynasty...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s presidential run-off: legal limbo and the transition to nowhere
The best way for the military to retain its privileges would be to step back from its high-visibility role. The more...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRevolution never sleeps
Alexandria became known initially for the revolution’s poster-child, and then for its ‘No’ Vote in the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaVoting for security in Alexandria
In Alexandria, our author encounters three violent incidents in as many days. Witnessing such crimes prior to the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s uncertain road to prosperity: economic challenges to long‐term stability
The livelihoods of the Egyptian people are a political priority. In the 1990s, at the behest of the IMF and the US,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia: a year of all dangers
Tunisia is both the pioneer of the Arab spring and its greatest success so far. But even here the political and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaArab Spring: political islam or democracy?
One-year on, the Arab revolutions continue to circle around the issue of whether Islam is compatible with democracy....
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe politics of Egypt’s electionsThe military may wish to maintain its economic and political stranglehold, the Brotherhood may feel its time has...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaReady, set, crawl!
Despite protests and intense political pressure on Prime Minister Maliki’s coalition government, reforms in Iraq are...
