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All That Glitters: Tunisian Democratic Exception?

Media coverage of the MENA region is plagued by blanket statements and superficial analyses. International news outlets reserve even the right to name events. The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ is an example of a de facto ...

by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui

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Algeria and the Islamic Movement: a Problem of Exclusion, Fundamentalism, and Memory

ON APRIL 18th, the results of the Algerian presidential elections were announced: Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been elected Algeria’s President for a fourth consecutive term, despite his advanced age and feeble health. Bouteflika...

by Anna Lazzarin

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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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How Democracy And Instability In MENA Revealed A Western Existential Crisis

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and democracy are having a hard time making sense with one another. The West has found itself in a sort of existential crisis; the chaos that has erupted in MENA in the search for ...

by Esma Mneina

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Time for Business-Executive Politics in the MENA Region

For decades Arab politics has been an easy ride for the well-established circles that governed states and countries in the MENA region. Whether it is by virtue of blood as in monarchies, money as in oligarchies or simply heavil...

by Mohamed Belarbi

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All That Glitters: Tunisian Democratic Exception?

Algeria and the Islamic Movement: a Problem of Exclusion, Fundamentalism, and Memory

An Innovative Approach To Human Rights.

How Democracy And Instability In MENA Revealed A Western Existential Crisis

Time for Business-Executive Politics in the MENA Region

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