While Britain’s conventional army is being slashed, Britain’s special forces are benefiting from special treatment. Their budget was doubled in last year’s Strategic Defence and Security Review.
A month after Mohsen Fikri’s death, the ongoing protests in Morocco’s Rif expose a long history of marginalization in the region.
The escalation of judicial harassment against Azza Soliman triggered many angry, but also surprised, reactions: “what has Azza done?” This indeed is a question I would like to answer. عربي
I am blessed, in this western country, to cast my vote.
The United Nations-brokered Libyan political agreement has failed to bear any fruits thus far because it does not address the root causes of the Libyan crisis and only adds to its complexity.
As evidence of UN peacekeepers’ sexual violence against Black African women and girls grows, media reporting and research reinterprets this as ‘transactional sex’, through the logic of colonialism.
The election of Trump will give second wind to autocrats in the region as well as create space for the growth of Russian influence.
The historic televised public testimonies of survivors of the repressive regimes in Tunisia since 1950s can open the way for transitional justice in the country.
The Truth and Dignity Commission in Tunisia faces many challenges holding its first public hearings in the country’s transitional justice process.
With COP22 taking place in Morocco, is the kingdom greenwashing its image? And can there be climate justice without social justice?
Things fall apart: will the centre hold?
The German Stasi can explain much about the tendency of Egyptian state and security agencies to protect themselves.
