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Published in: HomeFallen analogies
Why a widespread analogy is harmful to fragile post-Arab Spring states and civil societies.
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Published in: HomeThe SWISH Report (21)
How does al-Qaida see the tumult in the Arab world, the persistent conflict in other regions - and its own...
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Published in: HomeYemen’s priorities: feed the starving children or security?
At the beginning of Ramadan 2012, recognition of the urgency of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is welcome, despite...
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Published in: 50.50التحرش الجنسي في الشوارع: كسر حاجز الصمت في اليمن
حوالي 90% من النساء اليمنيات يتعرضن للتحرش الجنسي في الشوارع يوميا. مجموعة من الناشطات الشابات في مجال حقوق النساء...
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Published in: 50.50Street sexual harassment: breaking the silence in Yemen
Young women’s rights activists are using new media to give a voice to the 90% of Yemeni women who face street sexual...
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Published in: HomeThe struggle for security and against terrorism in Yemen: in whose interests?
People perceive that cash and support are available for military and security costs but not for development or...
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Published in: HomeYemen’s transition: a model to be followed?
What is actually happening in Yemen? It is either presented as a ‘solution’ which could be a model for Syria, or as...
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Published in: HomeInterview with Galal Maktari, founder of the Independent Yemen Group
Filippo Dionigi met Galal Maktari, founder member of the newly established Independent Yemen Group, to discuss with...
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Published in: HomeYemen after Saleh: between uncertainties and divisions
After nearly nine months of protests, more than 900 deaths and approximately 25,000 wounded, the President of Yemen...
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Published in: HomeIs the GCC deal democracy for Yemen?
The GCC deal presents possibly the most realistic short term resolution to the Yemeni quagmire. It lessens the...
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Published in: openSecurityThe United States and Pakistan – beyond the verbal division
The United States and Pakistan engage in a war of words. Iraq to strengthen air sovereignty with the acquisition of...
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Published in: HomeThe Arab 1989 revisited
The establishment and deepening of a democratic culture is a long-term project and is intergenerational. As...
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Published in: openSecurityDay long siege of the United States Embassy and Nato command in central Kabul brought to an end
Afghan forces, aided by ISAF have managed to end the attack on the US embassy, Nato headquarters and police...
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Published in: HomeYemen: a kidnapped revolution
Bypassing the civil society that started the revolution leads to two options for Yemen's future, and neither bodes...
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Published in: HomeDrone warfare: cost and challenge
The repositioning of the United States’s military strategy includes a great expansion in the use of armed-drones to...
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Published in: HomeIs al-Qaeda establishing a small Shari’a emirates in Yemen?
Al Qaeda are trying to make up for the Arab spring in several areas, including Yemen.
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Published in: HomeAl-Qaeda post-Bin Laden: what next?
The Salafi-jihadist movement is losing its recruitment pool in the Arab world. Its latest strategies look elsewhere,...
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Published in: HomeRefolution in the Arab world
A new word is needed to describe these events of recent months. They should be called ‘refolutions’, radical...
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Published in: HomeA Yemeni finale or another of Saleh’s crescendos?
President Saleh's response to the protests has increased in violence, causing him some major defections, yet he has...