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Published in: HomeSyria: the imperative of de-escalationIn this excerpt from the latest ECFR policy briefing on Syria, the authors argue that a rare moment of opportunity...
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Published in: HomeNotes on a hunger strike
You might say Habeas Corpus literally means - you have a right to keep your body.
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Published in: openSecurityIsrael's loopy logic of exoneration
Israel's recent 'update' on military investigations into civilian deaths in Gaza last November is an affirmation of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaBeyond Arab vs Berber: the rich complexities of Algerian identity should be celebrated, not feared
In 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...