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From Morsi to Sisi: the evolution of targeting journalists in Egypt

One of the only consistencies in Egypt, from the Mubarak era through to the SCAF period to Morsi’s rule to the tumultuous summer of 2013, has been encroachments on press freedom and attacks on journalists. But there have been subtle shifts in how journalists have been targeted, and attacks are bec

By Heather McRobie

/ 18 Aug 2013

Totalitarianism as an object of fascination

The great public outcry and vehement criticism of American and British spy programs by western parliaments, NGOs, and the media clearly shows how great the distance still is between western democracies and the terrifying vision that Orwell described.

By Leonid Luks

/ 13 Aug 2013

Does the BBC not trust US intelligence on Iran?

If the BBC wants to speculate on Iranian nuclear capabilities and the potential for conflict, why is it ignoring the clear consensus of US intelligence, and for what purpose?

By Peter Oborne and David Morrison

/ 8 Aug 2013

Could Iran's Rouhani soon face the 'deep opposition' that Egypt's Morsi encountered?

It seems that without the role that the deep-opposition’s pessimism of the intellect played, the shallow opposition’s optimism of the will could never have claimed victory.

By Ahmad Alehossein

/ 6 Aug 2013

On Al-Jazeera's lopsided coverage of Egypt

Al-Jazeera has not only lost much of its credibility, but the credibility of its main backer and benefactor, Qatar.

By Ahmed Magdy Youssef

/ 2 Aug 2013

Keeping calm and carrying on

St Petersburg's Regional Press Institute has defended Russian media rights for the last two decades. Like other similar organisations, it has been subjected to various forms of governmental harassment, but has managed to keep going. Director Anna Sharogradskaya tells the story

By Anna Sharogradskaya

/ 31 Jul 2013

Commercial masters of our Voice

Once upon a time publishers sold content to readers, and readers to advertisers. This two-fold market is being destroyed by the same technology that enables writers and readers to engage with each other in ever more sophisticated ways. But, argues Tony Curzon Price, audiences that recognise their

By Tony Curzon Price

/ 26 Jul 2013

The EU becomes assertive in the Middle East peace process

The adoption of this EU directive might be the first step towards a much needed ‘paradigm shift’ that will no longer enable Israel to dismiss the EU’s voice as ‘unpleasant background noise’, the phrase used by foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor in 2012.

By Dimitris Bouris and Tobias Schumacher

/ 25 Jul 2013

A public for democracy: overcoming mediated segregation in Turkey

In this context, “Gezi”, as a synonym for all the places in Turkey where protests and citizen forums have sprung up, is not as much about solidarity as it is about the albeit tentative discovery of common-ness through the very defence of the commons.

By Britta Ohm

/ 22 Jul 2013

Between global and local: a new dialectic of political expression for the twenty-first century

Three weeks into the ongoing protests in Bulgaria, the Sofia office of the European Council on Foreign Relations invited Kerem Oktem and Dimitar Kenarov to participate in a discussion named “After Taksim: What happened in Turkey?” This is an account of the conversation that ensued on the meaning,

By Kerem Oktem, Dimitar Kenarov and Yavor Siderov

/ 22 Jul 2013

Squandering public money, BBC style

The culture of severance packages at the BBC has been exposed as so reckless with public money that there is talk of the police being brought in. Here's why.

By David Elstein

/ 19 Jul 2013

Neoliberal networks: a response to William Davies

The question of how these two disparate logics - network sociality and neoliberal competitive individualism - relate to each other is arguably the key issue in the analysis of contemporary power relations.

By Jeremy Gilbert

/ 18 Jul 2013