November 2022 JALEL HARCHAOUI تحميل الملخص التنفيذي Download the Executive Summary & Main Findings Dowload the full report Executive Summary In 2021, Libya’s U.N.-backed election
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Democracy and Dedevelopment in Tunisia: Chronicles of a death Foretold
APRIL 2022 COLIN POWERS تحميل التقريرالكامل (عربي) Download the full report (English) Download the Executive Summary Click here to go back to the Political Economy
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Dollars and Decadence: Making Sense of the US-UAE Relationship
APRIL 2021 COLIN POWERS تحميل الملخص التنفيذي Download the full report (English) Download the Executive Summary Click here to go back to the Political Economy
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EU Support for the Jordanian Media: A Mixed Bag of Successes and Failures
SIMON MANGON – December 13, 2021 Introduction For three decades running, the Hashemite regime in Jordan has worked, and tirelessly so, to cultivate a narrative
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Projecting an image of democracy in Jordan: The development of an e-Parliament
CAMILLE ABESCAT – DECEMBRE 2021 Though rarely achieving what they set out to, democracy promotion programs are not without political impact. The e-Parliament project in
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The Jordan Compact’s Failure to Create Jobs and Power Exports: Explaining a Missed Opportunity
EMMA EMPOCIELLO – DECEMBER 2021 The Jordan Compact was designed to pioneer a new, hybrid modality of emergency response and developmental aid. Much has been
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Authoritarianism in Jordan, a transnational production: Interview with Benjamin Schuetze
June 2021 CAMILLE ABESCAT, EMMA EMPOCIELLO, SIMON MANGON Jordan has long been one of the highest recipients of US and European “democracy promotion” funding. Severe
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Dollars and Decadence: Making Sense of the US-UAE Relationship
This is the Introduction of our MENA Report Discover our research programLearn about our project on Political EconomyRead Chapter 1Read Chapter 2 Since taking the
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When repression leaves the shadows in Jordan
Order, reform, and stability: such might be the byword of the Hashemite monarchy, which seemingly weathered the Arab Spring with no incidents of violence. The
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Fighting against Peace in Libya
On April 4, Khalifa Haftar launched the troops of the self-proclaimed “Libyan National Army” on Tripoli, the Libyan capital where the Government of National Unity
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Reflection on the Sudanese revolutionary Dynamics
Since December 2018, Sudan has experienced demonstrations calling for the fall of Omar al-Bashir, who has led the country since 1989, as well as the
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The Sudanese Revolution: the Climax of a Decade of challenging the Political Order
For about ten years, there have been various forms of protest in Sudan, what are the mobilization practices and who are the protesters? Clément Deshayes:
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The Mechanisms of the revolutionary Movement among the Sudanese of the Diaspora
Could you enlighten us about the main historical waves of Sudanese migrations towards Europe? What are the particularities of the Sudanese migrants in Europe, and
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Class Dynamics, Dissemination of the Sudanese Uprising
Who are these people who went to the streets? For these last two months, do we notice an evolution in the profile of the protesters?
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Mapping the 2019 Sudan Protests
These maps were first designed as part of a special issue dedicated to the 2019 Sudanese uprising:“Down with the government of thieves” : Reflection on
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The Sudanese Popular Uprising : From the First Demonstration to the State of Emergency
This map was first published as a part of a special issue dedicated to Sudanese uprising : “Down with the government of thieves” : Reflection
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The daily life of the Khartoum sit-in
On April 6th, 2019, on the anniversary date of the 1985 popular uprising and the fall of Nimeiri’s military regime, militant groups which had been
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Political Economy of the Regime and Revolt
What role does the economic factor play in triggering demonstrations? Raphaëlle Chevrillon-Guibert: Since the independence of Southern Sudan in 2011, it is very clear
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The Third Sudanese Revolution Reinstates Women from all Walks of Life onto the Map of Sudanese Public Life
Where do women stand in the midst of the large number of Sudanese who participated in the revolution and what motivated their emergence at this
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The Spatial Dimension of the four-months-long Sudanese Uprising
Can you describe the organization and mobilization of the recent protests that took place in Khartoum and other places? Mohamed A.G. Bakhit , Sherein Ibrahim,
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Leftist Leanings and the Enlivening of Revolutionary Memory
What role do the Sudanese Communist Party and Marxism more broadly play in Sudan? Elena Vezzadini: The Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) has been referred to
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“Oriental Christians” in France and in Syria : Political Stakes and Redefined Identities
Since 2013, the wars in Iraq and Syria have revived the persecution of Christians of the Middle East as an issue in Europe, in the
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Libya’s Territorial and Institutional Division
These documents were first designed as part of Xavier Guignard‘s interview with Seif Eddine Trabelsi, Fighting against Peace in Libya.
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The Return of the State and Inter-Militia Competition in Northern Iraq
In the wake of the end of the war against Islamic State (IS), the Iraqi state redeployed in the north of Iraq in October 2017.
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Actors and Territories in Northern Iraq
These maps were designed to illustrate Arthur Quesnay and Robin Beaumont’s article, The Return of the State and Intermilitia Competition in Northern Iraq
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The Political Stakes of the Battle for Mosul
The battle for Mosul is the final episode of the recapture of Iraq. It is the last act of a divided political and military landscape
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The strategy of Jabhat Al-Nusra / Jabhat Fath Al-Sham in regarding the truces in Syria
Since the beginning of 2016, the international community has been striving to ensure that the local and national truces in Syria are respected. Jabhat al-Nusra
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Iraq from the Ground
Go further, and read out full length article: Iraq from the Ground: Two Tears after the Fall of Mosul
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Shiite nationalism? Sistani, Present in Absence
This is an extended version of an article previously published, in French and in Arabic, by Orient XXI. It does not take into account recent
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The 2012 Local Elections in the West Bank: a Display of Discreet Authoritarianism?
Criticisms of the authoritarian drift or power confiscation engaged in by Mahmoud Abbas and his entourage arise from the very heart of the Palestinian state
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Exiled Between Two Authoritarianisms: the Sudanese Exiled in Cairo, from Hosni Mubarak to Abdel Fattah El-Sisi
“(…) The authoritarian syndrome persists within renewed political formulas.” – M. Camau[note]« Globalisation démocratique et exception autoritaire arabe », Critique internationale, n° 30, 2006, p.
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Yarmouk: a War of All Against All
“Yarmouk has been living under siege for over 650 days; water and electricity have been cut for over 200 days… Yarmouk’s suffering is more than
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Israel and its “Infiltrators”: Reflecting upon a political crisis
The anticipated elections in Israel, called for by Benjamin Netanyahu on the 2nd of December 2014 and voted by the Knesset on the 8th of that
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The Iraqi Crisis: A Return on Social Trajectories
The turn currently happening in Iraq can be analysed as a social crisis in which the bonds between individuals are weakening and recomposing under the
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The Peshmergas and the Future of the State
PUK-affiliated Peshmergas of the Kurdish Regional Government’s army having dinner in Kolajo, Northern Iraq, August 2012. © Edouard Beau / Agence Vu Informal systems
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The Sunni Revolution and the Outburst of Community Divisions in Iraq
This analysis is based on fieldwork conducted in Northern Iraq ovef the course of Fall 2014, with the support of the WAFAW program of the
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Sectarian Strategies, National Settings and the War Economy in Syria and Iraq
The meaning of the various dynamics at work in today’s Iraq and Syria lies in their interactions. This poses a twofold challenge to the cartographers:
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Sectarian Strategies, National Settings and the War Economy in Syria and Iraq
This article intends only, in line with its short length, to offer areas of reflection and avenues for further exploration. In order to understand the
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Testimony of General Ahmed Tlass on the Syrian Regime and the Repression
Born in 1961 in the town of Rastan between Homs and Hama, General Ahmed Tlass graduated from the Police Academy with a doctorate in Political
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Transformations of Trans-Border Areas in the Context of the Syrian Conflict
Syrian and Iraqi borders dynamics exemplify the ongoing metamorphoses in the Middle East, and their neighbors in the region—Turkey, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel—deeply feel
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No Trespassing
“No Trespassing sheds light on the fragmentation of the territory” This series is the result of a work that started in 2009 and focused on
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Between Al Qaeda and the Syrian regime: A Path Out of the Current Crisis
This report is the result of two weeks of field research in the governorate of Aleppo and three weeks of interviews all along the Turkish-Syrian
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Mapping Competing Strategies in the Syrian Conflict
The rebels control a majority of the territory, but the regime still rules over the majority of the population, as it keeps a hold over
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National Territory Crumbling: The Dynamics of Syria’s Borders
This map is based on data gathered by Cyril Roussel in the course of fall 2013.
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The Civilian Administration of the Insurgency in Aleppo
While the human and financial means were limited, civilian institutions have nevertheless emerged in a few months in the zones conquered by the insurrection movement
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Komalah Mountains
“Photographing them in black and white was not an aesthetic choice” GASPARD THIEKARO Since 1991, the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan has enjoyed relative stability,
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Iraqi Christians
GASPARD THIEKARO Kidnapping, hostage taking, executions, bombings have punctuated the lives of Christians in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Their only solution is
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