It's time to challenge the state's continued tradition of instrumentalizing women’s rights for its own political purposes. عربي
The commonly held view that the conflicts in Yemen – and elsewhere in the region – are a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia must be revised.
The new dimension of these social upheavals was a coalition between young educated people who think they have no future under the current system, and the least advantaged groups.
A closer look at Rouhani’s economic achievements, shows that his administration has had little success and disappointed many segments of Iranian society.
Iran’s recent protests shattered the myth of the Islamic Republic’s solid base among Iranian working class and traditionalist rural-dwellers and the simplistic narrative of middle class versus working class protesters.
To attack a major Kurdish population centre alongside the forces of a historical adversary is a mistake firstly in terms of principle.
How does the military cooperation of the Kurds in Rojava and Northern Syria with the US, Russia and other forces affect their standing in the larger Syrian context?
Two years after the murder of Giulio Regeni, the call for truth and justice has yet to be answered.
Let us never forget that those who make peaceful uprisings impossible will eventually make violent revolution irresistible.
The Tunisian working class’ fight against poverty, corruption and unemployment is ever more present. عربي
How can the Egyptian revolution reveal clues and unlock ideas about the changing nature of politics and organization, the meaning of revolution, and notions of failure and success? العربية
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