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Published in: HomeSocial movements and unrest in Mauritania since the Arab UprisingsDuring those rare moments when western media attention is turned to the country, it is usually with a focus on these...
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Published in: HomeNo prospects for an Iranian spring?With two weeks left before the presidential election, is there any hope for systemic change in Iran?
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Published in: HomeWho’s heard of the ‘African Spring’?
If the under or mis-reported uprisings, protests, revolts and changes of regime in many parts of Africa over the...
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Published in: HomePalestine: the precarious present
The Palestinian Authority is gazing into an abyss, and it is beating people in the streets.
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Published in: HomeA Chinese spring?
While Chinese petitioners and dissidents hold protest rallies every day in defiance of unaccountable officials, few...
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Published in: HomeIs the specter of the Arab Spring haunting Ethiopia?
Although Ethiopia has never been a breeding ground for Islamism, the government has started to interfere in...
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Published in: HomeJ14 and the movement for social justice in Israel
Israel's J14 protest movement is a new breed of movement in search of a society which has a mature accommodation...
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Published in: 50.50February 20 movement: reflections of a young activist
The 20th February movement was seen by some as elitist and too focused on political demands, while the people were...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy imperilled in the Maldives
The United States and much of the international community has understandably been focused on increasingly violent...
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Published in: HomeFighting to remain relevant? The PKK in 2012
The AKP has gained the support of 50 percent of the Kurdish population via cooption rather than coercion. That means...
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Published in: HomeLessons from the Maldives for the Middle East
The coup d’état in the Maldives doesn’t augur well for democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. Andrew Wigley...
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Published in: HomeAlgeria: reform or securitization of civil society?
While most of the world attention has been focused elsewhere, the early days of 2012 have seen a series of strikes...
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Published in: HomeMorocco's silent revolution
Morocco’s experience of the Arab spring of 2011, including constitutional reform and a parliamentary election,...
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Published in: HomeLebanon: calm before the storm?
The momentous events of 2011 in the Arab world have widely overshadowed Lebanon. With neighbour Syria continuing to...
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Published in: HomeWhy the ‘Arab Spring’ hasn’t reached Sudan
What is it about the nation in Libya and Egypt’s own backyards, which in the face of poorer and worsening...
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Published in: HomeLebanon: The 'Lee-Side' of the Arab Spring
Lebanon’s sectarian political system is a well-founded reason to start a revolution, as those from the Arab Spring,...
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Published in: HomeRevolutionary change in the Arab world: what prospects for Palestinians?
It may be that the era of Palestinian nationalism as it was born, post-1948, is coming to an end. Instead we may be...
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Published in: openEconomyThe economic basis of indignation in IsraelThe J14 protest movement that started in Tel Aviv was sparked by the anger of young Israelis over the cost of...
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Published in: HomeWill the Israelis listen to the clock ticking?
In this eventful month of September, the Israeli (Arab) spring has to decide: where does it stand, first and...
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Published in: HomeLebanon and the "Spring" of others
Syria’s unrest has allowed Lebanon to finally play a role in the Arab uprisings, with potentially dangerous effects,...
