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Views: Sectarianism, Authoritarianism, and the Rise of ISIS in Iraq
In 2011, the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI) militant group was at its territorial and operational nadir.[1] ISI went from…
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Views: Global Trends and Regional Consequences of the Growth of Counter-Terrorism after 9/11
Terrorism is paradoxically both an epiphenomenal and constant phenomenon. The ubiquity of terrorism is predictable yet simultaneously its pathways are…
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Views: Have We Understood Transformations in Tunisia over the Last Decade?
This text offers a critical reading of the perspective from which many human rights activists have understood transformations in Tunisia…
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Views: Egypt’s Criminalisation of Minority Free Speech through Blasphemy Cases
The revolution of 25 January 2011 gave most religious minorities in Egypt a genuine opportunity to step into the public…
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Views: Did the Egyptian Revolution Fail?
The uprising of 25 January 2011 was the first significant revolt against the system of governance created in Egypt in…
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Views: The Human Rights Movement, Covid-19, and the Challenges of a Critical Juncture
There is abundant cause for more far-reaching research on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on rights and freedoms, which…
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Views: Comments on Bahey eldin Hassan’s ‘Defending Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19’
In a recent contribution, Bahey eldin Hassan discusses three broad dynamics that alone or in partial combination could shape global…
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Views: Covid-19, the Crisis Compounding the Fragility of an Exhausted Region
Each new day brings news of more cases of Covid-19, with a mounting number of infected people and a mounting…
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Conference Proceeding: Egypt’s Military-Controlled Economy Beset with Monopolies, Corruption, and Social Unrest
Within the past six years, a new military regime took form in Egypt under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Officers and…
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Conference Proceeding: The Future of Secular Opposition in Egypt
On 3 July 2013, Egypt’s military ousted president Mohamed Morsi and installed an interim government lasting until then-Minister of Defence…
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