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Egypt’s Arab Spring: Not a Revolution

The past weeks may have erased in part the legacy of the hard-fought Egyptian revolution of 2011. The decision by the Egyptian judiciary to clear the former president Hosni Mubarak and members of his regime of the deaths of 846...

by Eva Uguen-Csenge

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Egypt’s Landmark FGM Trial Ends In ‘Not Guilty’

The first court case of female genital mutilation in Egypt has ended in the acquittal of doctor and Islamic preacher Raslan Fadl. Contrary to the hopes of activists and state officials for a landmark verdict, the doctor was r...

by Heenali Patel

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WATCH: A ‘Living Report’ On Art And Sexual Violence In Egypt

Ever since the end of the revolution in Egypt, the country has been cast under the spotlight for their increasing levels of sexual violence against women. Tahrir Square has long since lost it’s association with liberation...

by Priyanka Mogul

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Unreported Israel

On the 9th of July, 2004 the International Court of Justice issued its official ruling about Israeli occupied Palestine; the court found the construction of the Israeli wall in and around East Jerusalem, and its associated regi...

by Lucy Ratcliffe

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Ramadan Flavoured Arrests In Egypt

A year has passed since the ousting of Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi and the new regime has already received a lot of criticism for the declining human rights condition which arbitrary arrest is a big part of. In part...

by Global Voices

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World Refugee Day: A Day For Mourning

In recognition of World Refugee Day, it is appropriate to acknowledge the trials and tribulations that internally and externally displaced people are forced to endure. Many humanitarian crises seem to stem from economic, resour...

by Jamal Russell Black

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The Regionalisation Of Counterinsurgency In Egypt

Conflicts today are increasingly difficult to contain within a single set of borders, and are now more complex in nature due to the multiplicity of actors that each have their own vested interests in the given conflicts. This m...

by Timothy Poirson

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Beachside Resorts And Insurgency, Trouble In Paradise?

On February 15th, in the first attack on tourists in almost a decade, a tourist bus driving through Egypt’s Sinaï Peninsula was prey to a bomb attack that claimed the lives of two South Korean tour guides, a South Korean tou...

by Timothy Poirson

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Give Transition A Chance

Sunday 23rd February marked the 33rd anniversary of what Spanish people call ’23-F’. Just five years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco, the country was slowly transitioning towards democracy. But on the 2...

by Daniel Cavanillas

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Egypt’s Arab Spring: Not a Revolution

Egypt’s Landmark FGM Trial Ends In ‘Not Guilty’

WATCH: A ‘Living Report’ On Art And Sexual Violence In Egypt

Unreported Israel

Ramadan Flavoured Arrests In Egypt

World Refugee Day: A Day For Mourning

The Regionalisation Of Counterinsurgency In Egypt

Beachside Resorts And Insurgency, Trouble In Paradise?

Give Transition A Chance

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