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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionWhy do churches have mixed attitudes towards the Arab Spring?Christian leaders in Egypt and Syria opposed the 2011 uprising but now their counterparts in Iraq and Lebanon back...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionHow is Turkey answering its ‘Kurdish question’?Ankara treats all Kurdish opposition whether peaceful or militant as terrorism. And it is taking its war into...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationUK government accused of ‘grotesque betrayal’ as full foreign aid cuts revealedExclusive: Leaks reveal plans to slash aid to world’s poorest countries. Bob Geldof brands move ‘shameful’ while...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyrian prison literature and human rights: an interview with Shareah TaleghaniLiterature about prison has actually assisted international campaigns in the release of individual detainees.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCOVID-19 has deepened the 'pandemic of poverty' for Palestinian refugees in LebanonSocial and economic upheaval in Lebanon in 2020 has deepened and magnified the poverty of Palestinian refugees.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFor young Syrian refugees, education and employment cannot remain apoliticalWhy is it that despite the huge efforts invested by donors and UN agencies, do young refugees continue to struggle...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow Syria’s Afrin became hell for KurdsTurkish backed militias have turned life in Afrin into one of constant fear of torture, kidnapping, and death.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat are Syrian mercenaries doing in Azerbaijan?How can we understand the presence of Turkish backed Syrian mercenaries in Azerbaijan?
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy isn’t Donald trumpeting his foreign policy record?Afghanistan, North Korea, ISIS, Israel and the Gulf States: they’re at best partial successes, but that never...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow a generation of Syrian children in Lebanon were robbed of their educationRacism, xenophobia, and corruption rendered hundreds of thousands of Syrian children “a lost generation”.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reimagining victory by winning the peaceIf we want to see societies win the peace we need a concept of victory that is about justice and reconciliation,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyria: local agreements, regional rivalry and a global pandemicAs the regime moves towards capturing Idlib, rivalry between Russia and Iran to control Syria is growing.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow does authoritarianism survive in Syria? An interview with Lisa WedeenHow did the emergence of a civil-war autocracy in Syria change the way the regime reproduces its power?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaUnderground Botox: what is essential and what is not during a global pandemic?COVID-19 might have changed people’s perception of what is considered essential, but the perception of necessities...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRojava: statelessness in a time of pandemicLack of international recognition as a state has disastrous consequences on an area already suffering from war and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyrian cinema: motion picture in the age of transformationThe image can be an act of resistance and testimony that helps to understand the origins and development of the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow do Syrian directors see censorship today?Towards a new understanding of censorship, and its impact on Syrian cinema.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA matter of life or death: Syrian journalists have nowhere to turnIn Syria, journalists report the news while facing threats from all sides of the war. Now we must do our part to...
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Published in: HomeBomb Idlib’s civilians, win the war: what the West taught Assad and PutinThe tactics of Syrian and Russian forces are unforgiveable – but scarcely different to what the US and its allies...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFilming Syria: the politics of accessDoes Ahmad Ghossein's film contribute to the erasure of the history of the Syrian revolution?
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