"Where are you from? - Italy." "Ah, you have Regeni. We have thousands of Regeni in Syria."
In the Arab world, even the smallest acts of resistance can give a sense of self-worth, encouraging a long-demoralized people to feel that change, after all, is possible.
A security researcher says he was offered $20,000 a month to help the UAE government spy on the public.
It isn’t the capability of recognizing a historical moment that differentiates the Turkish trajectory from the Egyptian, it is rather the historical moment itself and what it represents. عربي
No matter how tragic the short and medium-term consequences of some of the uprisings, their outbreak might eventually lead the Arab world to enter steadily the trajectory to democracy and good governance.
تختلف آراء الناس حول ما إذا كان الشرب أو الأكل خلال شهر رمضان الكريم جريمة ولكن عندما تصبّ الشرطة اهتمامها ووقتها على هذا الموضوع أكثر من الجرائم الفعلية، يتساءل المرء عن الجهة أو الغرض الذي تخدمه. English
بعد أن عشت في الخارج لخمسة أعوام، بدأت أسأل والدتي التي تزال تقطن في الإسكندرية كيف تحافظ على هذا الرابط الوطني الوثيق بمصر على الرغم من كلّ ما اختبرته. English
It is by recognising the role masculinities and gender expectations play in societies that we can fully understand and hope to address violence.
People dısagree over whether drinking or eating during holy month is a crime, but when police devote more time to this than actual crimes, what or who do they serve? عربي
To single out the mistreatment of Copts and the failure of the state to protect them, as a “Coptic issue”, is a wrong diagnosis of the problem.
Women and youth were at the forefront of Bahrain's uprising in February 2011, and are at the heart of the ensuing movement for radical change.
