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Egypt. The Permanent Coup
Bahey Eldin Hassan
Biography
An Algerian Named Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Jean-Pierre Sereni
After twenty years in office, Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been obliged to resign the presidency of Algeria. Let us look back on the life of a man which merges with the history of his country. It is hard to imagine behind the inert, (...)
Yemen. Atrocious Record of an Endless War
Helen Lackner
As the Yemeni people face the fifth year of their internationalised civil war, what has changed in the past four years? To start with, a few figures: more than 60,000 people have been killed by directly war-related actions (...)
Morocco, the Declining Popularity of the Governing Islamists
Two Scandals Have Shaken the
JDP
Omar Brouksy
The clear winner of the post-Arab Spring elections of September 2011 and those of 2016, the Justice and Development (...)
Unlocking Europe’s Syrian straitjacket
Alex Simon
The
EU
is in urgent need of a Syria policy that looks beyond the chimera of a negotiated transition. Rather than grasping for means toward this implausible end, a sound approach would prioritize bolstering those assets Syrian (...)
Iran’s Resistance to
US
Sanctions
Camille Najm
On 5 November 2018, following their withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement, the United States imposed sanctions on Iran, “the strongest in history.” In reaction, Iran has activated its (...)
Central Asia: Have the Taliban Become Respectable?
Régis Genté
For a long time, the Taliban terrified the former Soviet republics of Central Asia,which were Muslim but marked by their secular past. However, with the threat of
ISIS
looming on the horizon and the imminent (...)
Turkey-Tunisia, Two Experiences of “Islamist Power”
Bayram Balci
The new century has seen the rise to power of political parties of the Islamist persuasion, both in Turkey and the Arab world. The most successful examples are the Turkish Justice and (...)
How Israel Manipulates the Struggle Against Anti-Semitism
Bertrand Heilbronn, Dominique Vidal
As is shown by Benyamin Netanyahu’s flirtation with the far right in Europe, the Israeli government and many of its fans are not really interested in the wholly justified struggle against (...)
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