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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGaza’s “Great March of Return”: an international rallying call for peace and justice
Reduced to refugee status 70 years ago, subjected to three wars since 2008 and an eleven-year economic siege, Israel...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe return of the Ultras Ahlawy?
Are communities that are not directly political more effective today? More capable of resisting repression and able...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMeet the Tunisian drag queen defying the odds
On the frontline of the LGBTQIA movement in Tunisia, a trans non-binary drag queen is revolutionizing and leading...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia: selective feminism and the marginalization of women’s struggles
It's time to challenge the state's continued tradition of instrumentalizing women’s rights for its own political...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYou've kept your power, Arab rulers, but at what cost?
Let us never forget that those who make peaceful uprisings impossible will eventually make violent revolution irresistible.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSisi, the guardian of sexual morals
The repression of the LGBT community in Egypt stems from the colonial legacy of imperialism and is driven by the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPink buses and race politics
To ally campaigns for women’s rights with racism is to accept the very logic that, at its ideological core, feminism...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaJerusalem: securing spaces in holy places
There are actors involved in all sides of this dispute who must now encourage enduring dialogue for conflict...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMental help: the story of Gaza’s trauma unit
Palestine has the highest rate of mental health disorders in the MENA region. Even though resources are limited,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWho will defend Egypt’s human rights defenders?
NGOs play an essential role in local communities; the government’s reckless, repressive actions will jeopardize the...
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Published in: HomeRuminations on the political in post-referendum Turkey
Despite the state’s attempts to know and manage, there remain illegible elements, as exemplified by the people who...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe new apathy: emotional break-off from Turkey
Young people are experiencing a numbness and profound disconnect from Turkey. Strict policies of repression and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt without Egyptians: the story of the Red Sea islands
Egyptian nationalism, as an ideology nurtured by the military elites and embraced by the middle class, marginalizes...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBook review: "The Battle for Home: The Memoir of a Syrian Architect" by Marwa al-Sabouni
If we can no longer recognise our surroundings as a shared home it becomes easier to contemplate their destruction.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIraq 13 years on
As life goes on in Baghdad, plans need to be put in place to make people’s lives more bearable. Planning should not...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWho is afraid of the urban poor?
In Egypt, both the ruling elites and the urban middle class cling to the military regime, in the hope that they will...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGovernment failure to upgrade informal settlements in Egypt: a brief history
Is civil administration and planning in Egypt being run professionally according to research and analysis, or is it...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCairo landscapes: a battle over history
The reworking of urban spaces embodying the collective memory of the January 25 uprising is not a novelty, but part...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA frightening vision: on plans to rebuild the Alexandria Lighthouse
If modern Alexandrian history is any indicator, rebuilding the lighthouse will become a symbol not of communal...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHomage to deformed cities
Gaza. Is there a city beyond the slogans?