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  Published in: Pandemic Borders

  Will global corporations take responsibility for those they have long exploited?

  Published on: 18 May 2020

  Written by: Jay Ramasubramanyam All articles by Jay Ramasubramanyam

  A transnational solidarity beyond borders must include the corporations and conglomerates who benefitted from...

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  Could Turkey’s opposition provide a model for the defeat of populist authoritarian rule?

  Published on: 11 May 2020

  Written by: Seren Selvin Korkmaz All articles by Seren Selvin Korkmaz

  COVID-19 could strengthen global resilience against populist authoritarianism. Those movements should also learn...

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  Detainees in Libya need protection: they must be released now

  Published on: 11 May 2020

  Written by: Kate Vigneswaran All articles by Kate Vigneswaran

  The right to health and life of detainees in Libya must be protected especially in times of pandemic.

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  In times of crisis, diaspora groups know what to do

  Published on: 8 May 2020

  Written by: Veysi Dag All articles by Veysi Dag

  Kurdish diaspora associations in European cities have performed a crucial function to mitigate the challenging...

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  Despite COVID-19, Libya war rages with civilians at risk

  Published on: 7 May 2020

  Written by: Hanan Salah All articles by Hanan Salah

  After years of getting away with their crimes, armed groups in Libya continue to destroy the country’s fragile...

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  Egypt: a brutal history of state encounters

  Published on: 6 May 2020

  Written by: Maged Mandour All articles by Maged Mandour

  Egyptian photographer and director Shady Habash’s death in prison is one in a long history of state brutality in the country.

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  A Libya story: pandemic and human rights in times of conflict

  Published on: 4 May 2020

  Written by: Tarek Megerisi All articles by Tarek Megerisi

  How does a fragmented state fight a global pandemic?

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  The moral triangle: Germans, Israelis and Palestinians in Berlin

  Published on: 30 April 2020

  Written by: Tugrul Mende All articles by Tugrul Mende

  An Interview with Sa′ed Atshan and Katharina Galor about the difficult, complex relationship of these three communities.

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  In Turkey, Erdogan’s crackdown on Kurds takes no coronavirus break

  Published on: 28 April 2020

  Written by: Philip Kowalski All articles by Philip Kowalski

  Written by: Aykan Erdemir All articles by Aykan Erdemir

  It is clear that Turkey’s Kurds can expect no respite during the coronavirus public health crisis.

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  Published in: 50.50

  Stuck in a foreign land with no passport or work

  Published on: 23 April 2020

  Written by: Selam Abebe* All articles by Selam Abebe*

  I support family in Ethiopia, have to pay my Lebanese sponsor who keeps my passport - and my cleaning work has...

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  US sanctions: collective punishment in the time of COVID-19

  Published on: 21 April 2020

  Written by: Halah Ahmad All articles by Halah Ahmad

  The coronavirus outbreak exposes the fundamental inhumanity of US foreign policy in the Middle East.

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  Published in: Pandemic Borders

  For Indian migrants in the Gulf it is a financial rather than a health crisis

  Published on: 20 April 2020

  Written by: S. Irudaya Rajan All articles by S. Irudaya Rajan

  Written by: H. Arokkiaraj All articles by H. Arokkiaraj

  What awaits the millions of Indian migrants in the Gulf who lack much needed access to healthcare and financial security?

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  For Iran and the US, public health is a political weapon

  Published on: 20 April 2020

  Written by: Sina Zekavat All articles by Sina Zekavat

  With or without the US sanctions, the Iranian regime is neither capable nor interested in prioritizing the...

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  A call from North Africa: sovereignty over our land, food and destiny

  Published on: 17 April 2020

  Written by: North African Food Sovereignty Network All articles by North African Food Sovereignty Network

  The only solution before us is unity and solidarity in order to build a new world in which people’s sovereignty,...

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  Coerced innovation: Gaza makes its own tools to fight against COVID-19

  Published on: 16 April 2020

  Written by: Caitlin Procter All articles by Caitlin Procter

  Gaza’s engineers have been forced to confront the COVID-19 pandemic with ingenuity: building ventilators from scratch.

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  Palestinians in East Jerusalem: living under a deadly virus and a violent occupation

  Published on: 16 April 2020

  Written by: Victoria Brittain All articles by Victoria Brittain

  The coronavirus pandemic is revealing the ugly realities and the injustice of occupation which can no longer be ignored.

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  Published in: Can Europe Make It?

  Locking up dissidents, Turkish style: the saga of Osman Kavala

  Published on: 15 April 2020

  Written by: Merve Tahiroglu All articles by Merve Tahiroglu

  The accusation that Osman Kavala supported both the Gülen movement and the Gezi movement was outlandish from the outset.

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  Fighting COVID-19 in war-torn Libya: local initiatives might be the answer

  Published on: 15 April 2020

  Written by: Nikkon Balial All articles by Nikkon Balial

  Suffering from war, a weak economy and a nearly non-existent healthcare system, how can Libya fight a pandemic?

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  Syrian cinema: motion picture in the age of transformation

  Published on: 14 April 2020

  Written by: Nidal Hassan All articles by Nidal Hassan

  The image can be an act of resistance and testimony that helps to understand the origins and development of the...

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  Published in: North Africa, West Asia

  Walls and weapons can’t stop a virus: priorities must change!

  Published on: 14 April 2020

  Written by: Mustafa Barghouthi All articles by Mustafa Barghouthi

  The lessons learned from this crisis and for other possible future disasters, is that reform has become vital.