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Published in: 50.50Bahrain - from national celebration to day of rageA “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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Published in: openSecurityEgyptians defy government ban in second day of protests
Egyptians defy government ban in second day of anti-government protests. Tunisia issues arrest warrant for Ben Ali....
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Published in: HomeTunisia, or democracy’s future in jasmine
The homegrown insurrection of a friendless people in Tunisia carries a profound lesson in the understanding of...
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Published in: HomeTunisia and the world: roots of turmoil
The uprising in Tunisia is at once a response to systemic inequity and injustice and an expression of the limits of...
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Published in: HomeWhy 14 January 2011 will go down in history
Mohamed Ali Harrath is a former Tunisian dissident who was imprisoned and tortured after he set up a Muslim...
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Published in: HomeTunisia: the alliance of progressive and moderate Islamist forces points to an optimistic outcome
The alliance between forces on the left and the exiled moderate Islamist forces suggest that a lastingly democratic...
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Published in: HomePost-Wikileaks lessons from the Tunisian ‘intifada’
The real scandal revealed on closer examination of diplomatic cables from the MENA region, is the gulf that...
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Published in: openSecurityHariri returns to Beirut as Lebanon teeters on the brink of chaos
Caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri returns to Beirut in the face of opposition demands that he remain in exile....
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Published in: openSecurityMessages from Tunisia
What message should Tunisians and the peoples and governments of the Arab world and beyond take from the Tunisian...
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Published in: HomeTunisia: Yezzi fock (It’s enough!)
In the end one never knows why it is that social conditions erupt into revolt. More often than not they do not. But...
