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Items by Soumaya Ghannoushi
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Democracy and the Arab axis of tyranny
The current Gulf Crisis that threatens to destabilise the whole region didn’t pop out of thin air. Its origins lie in a much deeper rivalry rooted in the geopolitics of the Arab Spring, when people rose up and threatened to overthrow an existing order that favoured the preservation of...
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Trump’s Islamophobic policies galvanise diverse resistance movement
The contradictions and polarisation vividly on display today are neither recent nor superficial, but have deep roots in two opposite tendencies within Western intellectual and political history. These have long competed over the hearts and minds of men and women in Europe and across the Atlantic. The trend spearheaded...
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How Tunisia survived its own revolution - and the questions that remain
Six years ago, in a small Tunisian provincial town called Sidi Bouzid, an errant merchant named Mohamed Bouazizi stood outside a police station, poured kerosene over his frail body and set it ablaze. Little did this young man know that his act of sheer fury and desperation would shake...
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Saracens and Turks: The West's troubled relations with Islam
The language used to write about Islam is modern but its content is still largely medieval, argues Soumaya Ghannoushi...
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What Syria needs is a real political solution
The reconquest of Aleppo is a significant victory for the Syrian regime over the armed opposition which has now been confined to a few pockets in the east of the city. But this victory is drenched in the bitter taste of defeat. An impossible victory This is a civil...
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The voices of Tunisia's repressed echo across a region still under tyranny
After long months of political and legal wrangling, Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission has finally managed to establish itself as one of the most important transitional justice institutions in the country born out of its 2014 constitution. Earlier this month, the commission held the first round of public hearings...
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Why is Turkey's Erdogan being demonised in the West?
Many masks have slipped since Turkey’s failed military coup last Friday, such that a great many on the right and the left alike, who never tire of eulogising about democracy and human rights, the masses, and people power have been exposed as little more than pseudo liberals and fake...