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ÉGYPTE: VIOLENCES ET REGRETS
Ces dernières semaines, le degré d’intolérance et de rigidité des deux principales factions qui s’affrontent en Égypte s’est révélé consternant. Dans toutes leurs prises de position, les deux camps ont adopté une attitude défensive, fermée, chacun refusant d’écouter l’autre.
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EGYPT 2013: WHAT CAN YOU TELL?
Genuine democracy requires practice and partnership, and cannot be realized aloof from people. Mobilizing crowds to replace the ballot box is very dangerous as the lust for power and authority can be cast in
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EGYPT: COUP OR A COURSE CORRECTION?
During the past few weeks, I have been dismayed at the degree of intolerance and rigidity in the positions of quarreling parties in Egypt, with both taking defensive attitudes, unwilling to listen to the
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THE ARAB WORLD AND DEMOCRACY
The Arab Spring struck the Middle East to the core as popular uprisings landed in Tunisia then Egypt, Libya followed suit after Yemen, yet the course of events was doomed when the process was
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LE PRINTEMPS ARABE: THEORIE DU COMPLOT OU ELAN POPULAIRE?
Les révoltes n’ont pas frappé à la porte avant d’entrer, elles se sont glissées furtivement dans le monde arabe, renversant certains régimes tout en secouant les autres. Les analyses ont commencé à pleuvoir dans
Read More »THE ARAB SPRING: A CONSPIRACY THEORY OR NATION’S WILL?
Revolts did not knock on the door, they just sneaked in the Arab region, toppling some regimes while shaking the thrones of others. Analyses began to heap in an attempt to examine this state
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ANOTHER SPRING: THE MIDDLE EAST BETWEEN HISTORY OF REVOLTS AND FUTURE GEOPOLITICS
Regularly, when spring comes, people expect flowers and green shoots and optimism prevails. Alas, things in the Middle East are quite different. With every spring that comes, people recall the outbreak of the first
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ISRAEL’S STRIKE ON SYRIA
Breaching the U.N. Charter and violating territorial sovereignty of countries through quick air strikes is not a newfangled product. Major Powers have adopted such a practice in order to achieve quick, clean and accurate
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FADI ELHUSSEINI
Dr. Fadi Elhusseini is a political counsellor. He is a commissioning editor at e-International Relations and he is an Associate Research Fellow (ESRC) at the Institute for Middle East Studies- Canada. Elhusseini holds a
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IS ISRAEL GOING REALLY TO ATTACK IRAN?
As we are approaching spring, it reminds us of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu theatrical gesture at the United Nations General Assembly last September, while holding up a cartoon-like drawing of a bomb with a fuse
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