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Egypt

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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Africa
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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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Bahrain
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Conscription, Mercenaries And Cooperation With Israel Keeping The Peace By Preparing For War In The Gulf

The most militarised region in the world and home to some of the most volatile conflicts in the contemporary era, every state in the Middle East’s armed forces and military policy is forever developing and reforming. While Eg...
by Catherine Smyth
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Africa
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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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Economy

Fashion: A New Middle East?

What do you think of when you hear the term ‘Middle East’? Refugees, instability and violence are probably going to be among the list. Chances are, people like Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco, Christina Aguilera, Halle Ber...
by Raymond Wang
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Africa
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Tunisia: A Constitution & A Soft-Coup

As a Tunisian, I could not be happier to announce that there is now solid hope in my people’s full independence and prosperity: That hope is summarized in the Tunisian Constitution of 2014. 1881 marked the start of the oc...
by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui
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Human Rights
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WATCH: A Story Of Revolution

In December 2010 the Arab Spring began spreading across North Africa and Middle East. The autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen have been overthrown. In Syria the civil uprising began in January 2011 when police assaulte...
by Mateusz Krupczyński
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Europe
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No Room For Negotiation At The Geneva Syria Peace Talks

The violent Syrian conflict, which began 3 years ago and which has a current death toll of over 130,000, has highlighted the regional conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and further polarized relationships from Washington...
by Esma Mneina
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Africa

Backwards Is The Future? Women, Tunisia, And Constitutional Debates

Following the Arab Spring, there has been considerable debate on whether women’s rights are under threat from Islamist political parties and the seemingly patriarchal modes of politics they espouse. Despite the very public an...
by Hugh Oberlander
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