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Africa
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Collapse Of Libya: The Making Of A Failed State?

Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi was one of the earliest dictators to be ousted by civil uprisings in the context of the Arab Spring. Once the nation’s capital Tripoli fell to rebel forces on 20 August 2011, it was onl...
by Michel Scholer
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Egypt

The Internet Responds: Egyptians Overthrow Morsi & Muslim Brotherhood Rule

Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood senior member, is no longer the president of Egypt. Morsi’s one-year reign was cut short, after massive protests across Egypt calling for him to resign started on June 30. Head of the...
by Global Voices
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Human Rights
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An Innovative Approach To Human Rights.

Scores of non-governmental organizations sprout every year in Geneva. Many of them dedicated to Human Rights in one way or another. So when a new NGO is established on the same theme, it draws little or no attention because it ...
by Nadim Souss
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Human Rights

Israel’s Blind-Eye on Social Media Backfires with Harlem Shake

Over the past two weeks, Israel’s image has been smeared because of the use of social media, both by international activists and by one of its very own soldiers. Joining the viral craze of The Harlem Shake, and the exponentia...
by Yara Al Wazir
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Middle East

The Rise & Fall of a “Terrorist” Group: Jabhat al-Nusrah, Syria

Western media and thinkers, as crude as that categorisation seems, tend to oversimplify matters when dealing with “Jihadist” groups such as Al Qaeda. Like any “human institution”, however totalitarian it may seem, balan...
by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui
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Eurasia

The Case for An Independent Kurdistan

If ever there were a people today in need of a homeland for their continued security as a people, it is probably the Palestinians. The Kurds, however, finish a close second. Life in Gaza is unquestionably intolerable in its cur...
by Justin McCarthy
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Afghanistan
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Vaccine Politics : The Return Of A Global Threat

It was not long ago that a crippled man became the most powerful person on the planet. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest-serving President of the United States, a man who helped take the country out of an economic depre...
by Daniel Cavanillas
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Human Rights

450,000 Palestinian Refugees Face Dire Restrictions in Lebanon

Within ten minutes, not taking into account Beirut’s chaotic traffic, one can travel from the Mediterranean equivalent of the Champs-Élysées to an area resembling some of the roughest slums in the world. The living situatio...
by Urban Times
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Egypt

Egypt: All The News That’s Unfit To Print

In 2013, Egypt was ranked 158 out of 178 countries in the annual Reporters Without Borders Freedom Index.  This troubling ranking is a reflection of the Egyptian Armed Forces and the Muslim Brotherhood both of which have commi...
by Daniel Weiner
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