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Published in: HomePostmodern Islam and the Arab revoltsThe emancipatory movements in the Arab world represent an inner shift in the self-understanding of Islam - one that...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab rebellion: perspectives of power
The Arab popular awakening is provoking serious concern among state and security elites across the west. But...
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Published in: openSecurityJordan demands democracy, not disintegration
While Arabs express solidarity, the specificity of each nation must not be overlooked. In Jordan, Mohammed Hussainy...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab revolt: transformation to transition
A hurricane of change is blowing through the Arab world. Even now, many Arab regimes are still in denial. But it...
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Published in: HomeNo real freedom without dismantling the secret political police
In Egypt, police officers are needed back on the streets, protecting civilians from thugs: not the SSI back in full...
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Published in: HomeThis is our revolution, too
Maybe western leaders are afraid that, having seen what it is like when a people dictate to their government what it...
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Published in: HomeThe living history of Arab revolutions
A filmed interview of Professor Eugene Rogan; the conversation ranges from the echoes of nineteenth century...
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Published in: HomeDid the Internet matter in Tunisia and Egypt?
An audio interview in which Nabila Ramdani describes the role of the social networks in the Tunisian and Egyptian...
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Published in: HomeArab democracy rising: international lessons
The popular revolts in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere in the middle east are driven by a profound democratic impulse....
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Published in: 50.50Bahrain - from national celebration to day of rage
A “palm revolution” in the Gulf? Political upheaval in the desert state of Bahrain: there have been calls for a Day...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab 1989?
The uprisings sweeping across the Middle East portend a political transformation as significant as those of 1989....
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Published in: HomeWhy Mubarak must follow Ben Ali
Egyptians who are systematically raised to believe that their country’s fate is to play a leadership role in the...
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Published in: HomeUS Middle East policy: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil… just act surprised
None of the Arab Revolts of 2011 have played themselves out as yet. So it will be a while before the Obama...
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Published in: HomeIt’s not because they’re Arab
To frame the crisis in the region as an “Arab crisis” is to risk essentializing the problem in another, unique “world.”
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Published in: HomeThe new middle east: intellectuals and democracy
The change that is unfolding across the middle east places an especial responsibility on intellectuals to think...
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Published in: HomeCalling Europe's bluff in north Africa
Europe has taken too little interest in the political path of its southern neighbours, argues Fabrizio Tassinari.
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Published in: HomeEgypt, and the thirty years of solitude
The epic events in the Arab world’s heartland are also a lesson in the loneliness of power, says Goran Fejic.
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Published in: HomeThe middle-east path: towards awakening
The democratic mobilisations in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and elsewhere are lighting a beacon across the middle east and...
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Published in: openSecurityTahrir Square burns: a postcard from Egypt
An American in Cairo reflects on the experience of events there today and calls on the US to throw off its ties to...
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Published in: openSecurityPatriarchal shows of generosity will not appease the Arab people
Arab regimes' attempts to buy off their people only highlight their duplicity, argues Mohammed Hussainy
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