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Published in: Home: OpinionRegressive NatCon vision could resonate in UK amid global uncertainties
Could mass movement of people, economic crisis and climate chaos help a new populist movement take hold in the UK?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionMigrant solidarity in Tunisia offers hope after racist attacks
Migrants and refugees in Tunisia were attacked after the president gave a racist speech. Grassroots movements upped...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureFamily’s plea over Belgian-Tunisian woman found dead in police cell
Sourour Abouda is the third person of North African descent to die in unexplained circumstances in Rue Royale.
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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisTunisia may end up with an all-male parliament – by design
President Kais Saied has made it harder for women to run for office, reversing a decade of gains from gender quotas
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTunisia’s president has given himself unprecedented powers. How will he use them?
Kais Saied has stressed his loyalty to ‘the suffering people’ – in his upcoming state budget we’ll find out if he meant it
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionDid democracy in Tunisia fail or did it never succeed?
The appointment of the Arab world’s first woman prime minister in Tunisia cannot hide the country’s dismal economic...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTunisia’s presidential power-grab is a test for its democracy
President Saied’s ‘constitutional coup’ on 25 July was a dark day for Tunisian and Arab democratization
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTunisia’s healthcare system, like its politics, neglects the poorest in society
Recruiting patients from disadvantaged areas to regulate services would put power into the hands of ordinary people...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionCan worsening economies and increasing repression herald a new Arab Spring?
North Africa today is reminiscent of the period leading up to the 2011 uprisings. Tensions are further aggravated by...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisThe EU and UK are releasing the money of deposed dictators
Why is the EU lifting sanctions on politicians accused of corruption in Egypt, Tunisia and Ukraine, when so little...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTunisia’s revolution under siege: When the IMF calls the shots
The nation’s young democracy is already at a critical junction. What comes next?
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureTunisia’s new uprising: a return of the police state?
A decade on from the country's revolution, protesters are once again taking to the streets in Tunisia.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWomen’s rights have improved in North Africa, but the struggle continues
Ten years after the Arab Spring uprisings, we looked at the impact on women’s rights in the Maghreb.
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Published in: Home: OpinionAfghanistan, North Korea – and Tunisia: a security briefing for Joe Biden
Biden’s first executive orders have done a lot, but he can’t order away all Trump’s cack-handed legacy – or silence...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFor Tunisian protesters, democracy is not enough
If youth grievances continue to fester in the country’s marginalized regions, any captivation with a hard won...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Arab world between a formidable virus and a repressive state
What does the coronavirus pandemic spell for democracy in the Arab world?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe time is ripe for comprehensive reform in Tunisia
This post election phase presents an important window of opportunity for reforming the media landscape in Tunisia.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaExtractivism and resistance in North Africa
Should we see protests, uprisings and movements against extractivism as mainly environmental, or are these...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia: Ben Ali left without facing justice
The dangerous narrative, where the former dictator becomes a victim needs to be urgently challenged.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia: Essebsi and the resurrection of Bourguiba
Did Beji Caid Essebsi succeed in his attempt to bring back Bourguibism to Tunisia?