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Views: The Impact of Counter-Terrorism Measures on Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa
In 2005, I presented a paper[1] at a conference on the impact that governmental counter-terrorism measures, adopted after the 9/11…
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Views: How the Assad Regime Helped Create, Support, and Perpetuate ‘ISIS’?
On 16 November 1986, on the sixteenth anniversary of the so-called Corrective Movement,[1] Syrian president Hafez al-Assad strenuously denied that…
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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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Conference Proceeding: Dynamics of Socioeconomic Protest in Egypt in the time of Authoritarian Neoliberalism
On 2 September 2019, a video about military corruption, especially in regards to the construction of a new presidential palace,…
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Conference Proceeding: Going beyond the Exclusion-Radicalisation Premise in Understanding the Dynamics of the Muslim Brotherhood Transformation after the 2013 Coup d’État in Egypt
The coup d’état on July 3, 2013 was a pivotal event in the Muslim Brotherhood (MB)’s history in Egypt, and…
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Conference Proceeding: Egypt’s Current Economic Features and Policies
Bearing in mind the difficulties of making predictions, one could expect the recent agreements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)…
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Views: Understanding Risks and Investing in Opportunities while Defending Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19
In the time of COVID-19, the situation in the Arab region and the rest of the world – aside from…
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Views: Arab Atheists and their Quest for Acceptance amid Religious Intolerance
An “atheism tsunami” is reportedly engulfing and inundating Arab countries. This has caused outrage and fear in the religious establishment…
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Views: From Scriptural Text to Quranic Discourses, a Reading of the Discourse of Nasr Abu Zayd
The intellectual and cultural stagnation in our lives makes thinking seem more like running in place. It leads us to…
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Views: A Renewed Call for Indigenous-Led Conflict Resolution in the Arab States
Much has been said about the ‘local turn’ in peace-building, but the role of diaspora actors in driving conflict resolution…
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Views: Challenges to the Democratic Transition in Sudan
During the revolution, opposition political forces formed a broad coalition known as the Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and…
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