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Published in: openSecurityYemen’s troubled transitionIn Yemen a transition towards a new political dispensation is threatened by Islamist violence, drone strikes,...
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Published in: HomeYemen, and the Tunisian exampleA political agreement in Yemen is under strain. But its very existence confirms the Arab revolutions' key...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Arab Spring and the changing balance of global powerFrom an empirical-analytical point of view, what has happened in the Middle East and North Africa since Mohammed...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen’s future: like Tunisia or Libya?The recent conclusion of the National Dialogue Conference in Yemen might seem to point to progress in that fractured...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWomen and peacebuilding in Yemen: challenges and opportunities
What are the hurdles facing and opportunities available to Yemeni women in light of UN Security Council Resolution...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGetting transition rightGathering in Salzburg, Austria looks at improving diversity and inclusion in the post-revolution MENA region.
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Published in: openSecurityGauging ‘success’ in Yemen’s National Dialogue: mission impossible?
An agreement in 2011 averted dissent developing into violent conflict. The National Dialogue Conference has made...
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Published in: HomeSecessionists and sectarianism: Yemen’s more combustible security crisesIn Yemen, there are far more significant sources of conflict with a far greater potential for escalation and loss of...
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Published in: HomeAl-Qaida, a multiform idea
The Yemen-related security alert that has led to a western diplomatic shutdown in the middle east and north Africa...
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Published in: HomePalestine, peoples and borders in the new Middle East mapToday’s Sunni/Shiite regional war is the direct product of the Bush/Blair war on Iraq. The divide is all the more...
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Published in: HomeYemen: where is the transition heading?
The humanitarian situation remains grave. Why doesn’t it receive the attention given to similar situations...
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Published in: HomeResisting the other of the ‘war on terror’: lessons from Japanese internment camps?
Though intended to be temporary in nature, Agamben argues that the ‘state of exception’ has become a permanent...
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Published in: HomeIslam in the Arab transformationsThe Shari’a is largely irrelevant to most important issues of policy and administration in the economy and in...
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Published in: HomeAl-Qaida, idea in motion
The United States's "remote control" campaign against Islamist targets is intensifying. But behind the headlines,...
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Published in: 50.50A long road ahead for Yemeni womenWomen led many of the protests, and were vital in the sustainability of the movement during the Yemeni revolution,...
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Published in: 50.50Who is to blame? Street sexual harassment in Yemen
We need an unambiguous law which punish harassers and not the victims, says Ghaidaa Al-Absi.
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Published in: HomeYemen: can southern separatists break up Yemen?
By mid-2012, those demonstrators supporting a unified democratic Yemen were out-manoeuvred by separatists who now...
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Published in: HomeYemen’s National Dialogue: will it succeed?
Eleven months after the signature of the Gulf Cooperation Council’s [GCC] initiative and the formation of the new...
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Published in: HomeInnocence of America: orientalism, hooligans and radicals
This is not a debate about “blasphemy”, about freedom of expression; this is a debate about a carefully orchestrated...
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Published in: HomeThe failure of democracy under Islamism
The fall of autocratic regimes in the Arab world have led to the inevitable rise to power of Islamist groups who...
