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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionHow Palestine’s climate apartheid is being depoliticised
International donor-led schemes promote peacebuilding and collaboration rather than pushing Israel to end its occupation
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTunnel warfare: the Islamic State’s subterranean war
ISIS fighters dug huge networks of tunnels under cities and across borders, as part of their ‘irregular warfare’...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionAlgeria’s political prisoners go on hunger strike amid escalating repression
Trade unionists in the country, who are already ceaselessly persecuted, are being targeted for their role in the...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: InterviewHow have the uprisings of the Arab Spring shaped the path of revolutions?
Iranian-American scholar Asef Bayat, author of ‘Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring’, on the...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionGiulio Regeni’s murder speaks the truth about Egypt – and Europe too
France and Italy promote democracy and human rights while selling more and more arms to Egypt, where the student was...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureWhile displaced Afghans starve, international help is nowhere to be found
Withdrawal of funding, logistical problems and fear of the Taliban mean that thousands of Afghans are enduring a...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: NewsBBC Arabic owes journalists ‘thousands of dollars’ after three years’ unpaid fees
One contributor accused the channel, which is part of the UK licence fee-funded World Service, of withholding $10,000
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: InterviewShaping imagination in 1960s Beirut: a conversation with Zeina Maasri
The role of the visual in modern history, and the transnational nature of 1960s Beirut as a hub of politically...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: Feature‘I had no hope left’: Ex-NATO contractor forced to walk across Afghan border
When the Taliban began door-to-door searches for NATO contractors, Moheeb was left with no choice but to attempt to...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisSudan’s revolution enters its second phase: disrupting the state
Resistance committees are mobilising at grassroots level to bring about a fundamental transformation of the state
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTurkey’s broad definition of terrorism does nothing to halt radicalisation
Rather than tackling causes of violent radicalisation, Turkey takes a punitive approach that curtails individual...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe world’s food systems are in crisis, and big agribusiness is at its heart
Public finance has a key role to play in agriculture. Instead of propping up corporate interests, it should learn...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionRefugees and racial hierarchies in Lebanon
How refugee protection policies in the country ignore the prevalent problem of racism
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionAn Iraqi in the capital of the US Empire
Do the people on the street in Washington DC know that their government decimated my home?
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: NewsInternational refugee charity calls for Greek border investigation after openDemocracy report
Exclusive: Greek MP also expresses ‘horror’ after oD investigation found 233 Turkish asylum seekers were allegedly...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTackle online violence against women now: a call to the internet giants
Online violence against women is everyone’s business, and internet companies must act now, says Lawyers for Justice in Libya
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureBeaten, begging and in hiding: Life for the Afghans the UK left behind
In August, thousands of people who worked for the UK in Afghanistan were left to the Taliban’s mercy. openDemocracy...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: InvestigationTurkish asylum seekers allegedly being pushed back in small boats by Greece
Exclusive: Turkish nationals claim they were illegally put in boats by Greek authorities and returned to Turkey,...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisSunni Islamic jurisprudence, sex reassignment surgery and transgender rights
The Sunni religious establishment is resisting transgender demands by banning gender affirming surgery – while...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionFighting repression in the Land of the Free: an Arab-American feminist perspective
While the US criticises authoritarianism abroad, it represses its own Black, Arab and other minority citizens...
