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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...
Social Media: The End of the ‘Right to Privacy’?
The ‘right to privacy’ is, according to the liberal tradition of political philosophers such as John Stuart Mill one of the most important rights for man to be treated as a ‘free, autonomous, and valued individual’ and ...
Managing the Hajj: Pilgrimage and the Politics of Race and Class
On Monday I flew from London Heathrow to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a journey I have made countless times. This time around, however, the atmosphere was different. I had chosen to fly during the busiest time of the year in Saudi Ara...
Syria: Banksy’s crude politics
Banksy’s video satirizing the Syrian civil war, entitled “Rebel Rocket Attack,” left Syrians and keen watchers of the conflict confused and disappointed. The video, released on October 6, has since been viewed by over fiv...
Revolution, Civil War Or Proxy Conflict? In Reality, The Ukrainian Crisis All Boils Down To Money
Cast your mind to any place in modern day Europe, east of the Czech Republic, and your imagination will inevitably be playing three degrees of separation with one major reference point in terms of culture, economics, history a...
In between images of the Peshawar attack, a thought about Pakistan’s Army Public Schools
My two-year old daughter looks at me and says, “What happened, Mama?” I can’t get the images of the blood-stained green-and-yellow striped neckties and white uniforms out my mind. I hope she doesn’t see them in my eyes....
