Was January 25 a revolution or an uprising? This question concerns the future more than the past. Was the aim to change the system of governance, to remove President Hosni …
Syria One Hundred Days Later: Has Julani traded the mask of Ahmed al-Sharaa for Assad?
Nearly one hundred days ago, on 8 December, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), entered the Damascene presidential palace after ‘the butcher’ Bashar al-Assad had fled. …
Jimmy Carter’s Lessons for America in the Middle East
The longest-living president in American history, Jimmy Carter was the first of what has become an inglorious succession of U.S. presidents to have been overwhelmed by events in the Middle …
No Safe Haven: Algeria’s Transnational Repression of Dissidents
For Algerian activists, journalists and human rights defenders, physical borders no longer offer any sanctuary. The growing use of transnational repression by Algeria is a stark example of how authoritarian …
Taking stock of October 7: The view from the Arab world
Over the past twelve months, the Palestinian people have sustained horrifying human, humanitarian, and political casualties, the worst since the Arab defeat of 5 June 1967 and the subsequent occupation …
Is the Palestinian Cause Central to the Arab World?
The date of the Al-Aqsa Flood, 7 October 2023, will be remembered for more than one reason, regardless of the intentions of its masterminds. One reading is that Al-Aqsa laid …
After 7 October: Prospects in the Arab World
Over the two waves of the Arab Spring uprisings, which spanned nearly a decade, the Arab world was unable to find a common middle ground between the ruling elites and …
Immediate release of Alaa Abdel Fattah demanded by over 40 prominent public figures from 14 countries, including intellectuals, writers, filmmakers, and academics
Alaa Abdel-Fattah is a British-Egyptian writer, human rights defender and software developer. He was one of the leading voices and campaigners during the 25 January 2011 revolution. He has been …
No Climate Justice without Human Rights
In Egypt, critical speech or peaceful opposition is effectively criminalized. Protests against widespread corruption and mismanagement are quelled: after the 2019 demonstrations, over 4,300 were detained or forcibly disappeared. Despite …