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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBeyond Arab vs Berber: the rich complexities of Algerian identity should be celebrated, not fearedIn launching their war of independence in November 1954, Algerians emphatically rejected this divisive bait,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThrow away your textbooks: education via revolution
How Egypt’s young adults stole the show, which is how it should be, because the show was meant to be about them in...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAlgerian activism: a new generation draws the line
Away from the traditional circles of power, a new force has been working its way up to the surface of the Algerian...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAlgeria: how the murder of two children shook a nation
The tragic fate of Brahim and Haroun has acted as a powerful conduit for the expression of wider, deeper ills and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt: from uprising to revolution?The two and a half weeks between January 25 and February 11, 2011 proved that in Egypt there is a strong demand for...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA toxic dependency: Algeria’s love-hate relationship with its oil
This year's 41st anniversary, celebrated two weeks ago, has been marked in particularly gloomy fashion. Reports have...
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Published in: openSecurityA shot at utopia: assessing Lebanon's challenges in the race for Mediterranean oil wealth
Lebanon's plans to harnass the vast oil and gas reserves off its shores already reveal familiar echoes of past...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGdeim Izik: the first, forgotten spark of the Arab uprisings
Many commentators, notably in Algeria, have drily noted the familiar dissonance between the west's florid paeans to...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe maddening betrayal of potato-seller, Omar SalahIt is ironic that street vendors have spent more time in the square than any protestor ever has. Omar comes out...
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Published in: openSecurityOn strategies of spatial resistance in PalestineThe recent international coverage of the Bab Al-Shams camp depicted the demonstrators as mirroring Israeli settler...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow to be different together: Algerian lessons for the Tunisian crisis
In light of the crisis currently unfolding in Tunisia - particularly the increasingly strident and incendiary...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaI can’t believe it’s not Qatar!: addressing the Brotherhood’s other patronIf the Arab uprisings have taught us anything, it is that the Arab public represents a formidable challenge to power...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAfter In Amenas: an Algerian perspective
The notion that this episode heralds a real shift in Maghreb-western dynamics is increasingly hard to dismiss.
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Published in: openSecurityThe creation of an unbridgeable divide
Syria's civil war is now strongly characterised by militias identifying along sectarian lines. The growing divide...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA crisis in identity: Egypt’s opposition is caught up in a futile debate
Secular versus Islamist barely scratches the surface of the conflicts that best Egypt.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTwo years on: a revolution is a process, not an event
2013 has many surprises in store for Egypt.
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Published in: 50.50Fear and fury: women and post-revolutionary violencePutting episodes of post-Arab spring violence against women down to a routine manifestation of patriarchy and its...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTop ten ways to craft and promote your Arab Awakening column
Amro Ali, one of Arab Awakening's columnists from Egypt, presents his personal approach to crafting and promoting...
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Published in: 50.50A problematic discourse: who speaks for Arab women?
Placed between the First Lady and the Diplomat at the recent Trust Women conference on the 'Arab spring', Ala'a...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt speaks to an international audience
Collusion and confusion: Hania Sholkamy asks whether the international community will meet the challenge of...