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Published in: HomeThe Islamic state in context
Almost by default, the swelling numbers of young Arabs, especially in the culturally vibrant centres of the Arab...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: small oases of transformation
The new Heliopolis university in Cairo has developed from SEKEM principles and is devoted entirely to sustainable...
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Published in: openSecurityEmerging civil administrations: a way forward in Syria?
Whereas the government and security institutions of Egypt and Tunisia have remained intact, necessity being the...
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Published in: HomeA third perspective: Stronghold Sound’s new hip hop album, Khat Thalet, reviewed
The lyrics are all in colloquial Arabic, with artists using different dialects and referring to idioms, metaphors,...
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Published in: HomeWhat might have been: a decade of civil activism in Syria
The Syria Trust for Development was beginning to play an important role in Syria, when the Syrian uprising took...
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Published in: HomeOnline aggregation in the 'mass web'
Amidst the ruins of the global economic crisis, the rise of aggregation as the master frame of online interactions,...
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Published in: HomeLast call for Egypt's activists?
What Egypt’s revolutionary activists lack is a coherent organisational base. Only the Muslim Brotherhood manages to...
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Published in: HomeWhy I chose to give my vote to a Palestinian
To protest against what they see as unjust exclusion, some Israeli citizens have given their vote to Palestinians...
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Published in: HomeTunisia: Siliana and the heritage of Farhat Hached sixty years after his assassination
Farhat Hached is still making history in Tunisia, where the government is fixated on shifting Tunisian society in a...
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Published in: 50.50Revolution is female: the uprising of women in the Arab world
The Arabic word for revolution, thawra, has a female gender. So does the word ’huriya (freedom), and so does the...
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Published in: 50.50Harassment free zone
Why isn’t anybody doing anything? Attempting to curb sexual harassment by targeting the harassers is very...
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Published in: HomeNot yet a revolution: the fight for women’s rights in Egypt continues
While the eighteen day uprising saw Egypt’s men and women equally contribute to the greater good of the country and...
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Published in: HomePussy Riot: Russia’s unwitting gift to the women of the Arab Spring
What if a feminist post-punk collective's action in Moscow could influence the cause of women everywhere, starting...
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Published in: HomeResisting relocation: active communities in revolutionary Egypt
Residents’ actions highlight growing expectations that a more inclusive model of decision-making is both possible...
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Published in: HomeThe pathway to Tunisia’s constitutional future
The language of constitutional revision and civic values based on human rights has become the baseline of political...
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Published in: HomeWorkers' strikes: the ongoing revolution from below
With disputes between the liberal, Islamist and military forces stealing the show, the battle against the horrendous...
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Published in: HomeLibya: still a long road ahead
Libya’s transition has been aided by the fact that it has not had to dismantle the kind of ‘deep state’ that has...
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Published in: HomeNorth African diversities: a Tunisian odyssey
Tunisia's modern history, from the late French colonial period to the rule of two long-term presidents, has been a...
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Published in: HomeProfessor Charles Tripp on Art and the Arab Uprisings (Event Recording)
In the third and final event in Arab Awakening's 'Tahrir Square Meme' series, Charles Tripp, professor of middle...
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Published in: 50.50Visible players: the power and the risks for young feminists
From the student protests in Chile, to the protests of the 'Arab spring' in the MENA region, the debate among young...