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A #Sulaymaniyah Spring

Between February and April of last year, tens of thousands of Kurds in the Kurdistan region of Iraq staged their own version of the Arab Spring, forming the largest and longest protests in the history of the Kurdistan region. In her lecture at LSE on 15 May, Dr Nicole F Watts examined why. The following is an excerpt from her lecture. A full […]

June 14th, 2012|Transcripts|0 Comments|

Politics and Power in the Magreb

Tweet In the late 1990s, while teaching a course on North African politics at Al Akhawayan University in Morocco, Dr Michael Willis was required to find a core text to assign his students. He couldn’t find one. He decided to write it himself. Willis’ subsequent book, Politics and Power in the Maghreb: Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from Independence to the Arab […]

May 23rd, 2012|Transcripts|1 Comment|

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