Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week: Syria, two sides of the same coin?
The military conflict becomes more domestic and parochial, while the war of ideas spreads further afield and takes root in countries far outside Syria’s borders. This ideational war is the ‘Silent war’.
The Morsi-Mubarak contrast will eventually wear thin as people demand their human security. All 83 million of them.
Secularists and Islamists alike have long suffered under the shadow of autocratic rule. What is required now is the strength and courage to actively integrate and mix so that we can be rid of the corrosive prejudices which threaten what this revolution stands for
In response to the UK’s threat to raid the embassy, Nawaat, Tunisian leading collective blog tweeted: ‘If the UK storm Ecuador embassy we will storm UK embassy in #Tunisia for violating Vienna convention @wikileaks #assange #tnassenge’
The Olympics have revealed once again that the British are fascinated with themselves and how they feel about who they are, now that they are a multicultural country that is no longer the centre of an Empire. Here we see some of the shifting responses detailed in polling responses run by the new t
A Lebanon-based journalist examines the possibility of violence spreading from Syria to Lebanon. There are reasons enough to fear the worst, but also signs of real restraint.
Spain’s crisis is not one of public debt per se. It is of private debt being transformed into a national burden.
Beyond its political and economical ramifications, the euro crisis has had a profound impact on European society. From a distributional conflict perspective, these turbulent times redefine who gets into conflict with whom.
Whatever genuine grievances and demands for political reform the Syrian people might have had a year and half ago were trodden underfoot by this stampeding sectarian drive that the Syrian opposition itself worked so hard to foster among its own supporters.
These are our last unhurried moments to make all haste, to prepare for the worse, to make sure the climate change lifeboats are all stocked, and more importantly, that there are enough to go around for all.
Croatians believe Operation Storm is how they got their nation back. So why has it come back to haunt them nearly two decades later? Can the ICTY bring closure for the families involved?
