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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaI can’t believe it’s not Qatar!: addressing the Brotherhood’s other patron
If 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 violence
Putting 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...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe upcoming general strike in Tunisia: a historical perspective
The first general strike in Tunisia since 1978 takes place in a much-changed country and against old friends but for...
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Published in: HomeThe revolution continues: Morsi’s miscalculations and the Ikhwan’s impasse
After President Morsi’s Constitutional Declaration providing him with unprecedented sweeping powers, the Muslim...
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Published in: 50.50Myopic Morsi and oblivious Obama: counting the costs of autocracy
President Morsi’s ill-advised and badly executed attempts to concentrate power in his hands will exact high moral,...
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Published in: 50.50State feminism in Tunisia: reading between the lines
The Tunisian experience with state feminism is a model to draw lessons from, especially for the Arab-Muslim...
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Published in: HomeDivided we fall: the ongoing quest for a single Muslim voice
From a small incident at a local mosque in West London to the 'Innocence of Muslims' riots, a reflection on the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEating the democratic crumbs from the Arab ruler’s table
The Morsi-Mubarak contrast will eventually wear thin as people demand their human security. All 83 million of them.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Alexandria mafia’s new adversary: civil society
Post-revolutionary Egypt was visited by the semi-break down of law and order, and an Egyptian public that became...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s stake in the Syrian revolution
Numerous segments of the Egyptian public have thrown their weight behind “their” Syrian revolution and cheered for...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s history repeating itself fallacy
Questions are being asked, is Egypt going to become like 1979 Iran, 1991 Algeria, Old model Turkey, 1999 Pakistan,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s morning after: against Dictatorship 2.0
With Egypt’s first elected leader, Mohamed Morsi, SCAF is no longer going to be grooming a fourth military dynasty...
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Published in: 50.50Disquiet and despair: the gender sub-texts of the 'Arab spring'
The extreme precariousness of women’s rights in post- Arab spring successor regimes can neither be fully accounted...