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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
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on : Wednesday, 15 Feb, 2012
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What Comes Next?

On 14 January 2011, the first president to fall at the hands of protests in the Middle East departed Tunisia. The next twelve months have since become a historic period of profound transition and evolution for the region. It is a movement still in the process of realization. It all began when, on 17 December 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi—a fruit vendor driven to desperate measures by corruption and abuse endemic across Tunisia—set the whole region aflame by dousing himself with paint thinner ...

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James Denselow
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on : Tuesday, 7 Feb, 2012
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A League Apart

Multilateral bodies such as the Arab League have faced tough questions about their effectiveness in recent years. Chatham House Director Dr. Robin Niblett emphasized that “the nation state is being empowered, not disempowered … in terms of global governance we also have a world where power is shifting to the south and the east.  This is a critical challenge to the current multilateral system.” Institutionally, the majority of global multilateral agencies are crying out for reform with t...

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Paula Mejia
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on : Thursday, 15 Dec, 2011
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Sidi Bouzid, One Year On

On December 17, 2010, a young street vendor from a little-known city in an impoverished region of Tunisia made a difficult decision that would spark a revolution in his own cou...

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The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine
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on : Tuesday, 15 Nov, 2011
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What’s next for Yemen?

With the world’s attention focused on Tunisia, Syria, and Iran, developments in Yemen have made few headlines recently. Yet after ten months of violent protests, Yemen may be...

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Amy Myers Jaffe and Keily Miller
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on : Thursday, 27 Oct, 2011
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The Future of Oil

The international oil industry has a long history of interruption from political turmoil. Of the 28 countries that experienced civil conflicts over the course of the twenty...

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James Denselow
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on : Tuesday, 11 Oct, 2011
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A Simple Strategy

Six months after the outbreak of protests in Syria there is little sign of the violence halting any time soon. Over 2,700 people have been killed and tens of thousands have eit...

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Caryle Murphy
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on : Friday, 23 Sep, 2011
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The Twitter Generation

They are easy to spot in Deborah Wheeler’s class at American University of Kuwait. They favor brightly colored Polo shirts, cargo shorts and sandals. Sometimes toting both iP...

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Jason Burke
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on : Tuesday, 6 Sep, 2011
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A Decade of War

You can still ask anyone where they were the moment they realized that the World Trade Center had been attacked. At 8:46 am EST, the first plane hit the South Tower, leaving mo...

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Maryam Ishani
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on : Wednesday, 24 Aug, 2011
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The Return of the Tribe

It is a typically hot July afternoon in Benghazi. A man is squinting at pictures on a wall, trying to make out the name of someone he might know, a man who comes from his town....

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Fawaz Gerges
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on : Thursday, 11 Aug, 2011
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America’s Lost Strategy in Afghanistan part II

By announcing a substantial withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, President Obama has finally acknowledged that the Afghan Taliban cannot be militarily defeated, and that t...

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