Vivienne Matthies-Boon is an Assistant Professor in the International Relations of the Middle East at the University of Amsterdam. Her work particularly focuses on political trauma amongst activists inside and outside of Egypt. Her writings can be found on academia.edu
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Publicado en: North Africa, West AsiaDancing with the devil: how the EU is complicit in Egypt’s brutal regime
Just weeks after staff from an Egyptian human rights group were arrested on terror charges, Macron rolled out the...
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Publicado en: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt's political system is a pressure cooker: it will explode
Egypt will at some point explode in everyone's faces. The question is when, how and most of all, at what cost. How...
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Publicado en: HomeEgypt: from rebel to revolution?
From the revolution’s very beginning in January 2011, western diplomats were keen to reduce the demands of the...
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Publicado en: HomeThe revolution continues: Morsi’s miscalculations and the Ikhwan’s impasse
After President Morsi’s Constitutional Declaration providing him with unprecedented sweeping powers, the Muslim...
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Publicado en: HomeAnti-Islam film protests: a reification of public debate?
Beyond their regrettable cost in terms of human lives, "Innocence of Muslims" and the subsequent protests that...