by Fatima El-Issawi
My stay in Morocco over the summer of last year to conduct field research on the the state of Moroccan national media following the pro-democracy movement of 20 February 2011 was buzzing with debate. From my meetings with journalists and media stakeholders, I have kept memories of long discussions filled with both enthusiasm and bitterness. However, I […]
by Pinar Dinc
Historically, Dersim was a region within the Ottoman borders, surrounded by Pontus-Rum and Lazistan to the north, Kurdistan to the south, Armenia to the east, and Turkey to the west. The region was in the eastern part of the modern Turkish state, and it included parts of the surrounding cities where predominantly Alevis lived (see Map 1).
Nonetheless, […]
by Toby Dodge
This piece was originally published on Thomas E. Ricks’ Voice blog on foreignpolicy.com on 7 April 2016.
I have recently returned from two research trips to Iraq, the latest one at the end of March as a member of the Atlantic Council’s Future of Iraq Task Force.
We got great access and I spent time talking to senior decision […]
by Heba Elsayed
Almost five years to this day, young Egyptians made global headlines as a (digital) force to be reckoned with: they were at the forefront of an uprising that disposed of a thirty-year dictatorship within 18 days. A plethora of accounts emerged of how youth not only faced the wrath of Mubarak’s police force on the ground, but […]
by Jamal Abdullah
After the Paris attacks, the world seems to be rushing to limit the activities of extremist organisations that have been able to kill hundreds of civilians. World powers have now realised that they have to act more effectively and take the most efficient measures to stop the expansion of extremists and prevent their incursion in capitals of […]
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