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Libya’s Electoral Impasse

Libya’s Electoral Impasse

Jalel Harchaoui15 November 202218 November 2022

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

Democracy and Dedevelopment in Tunisia: Chronicles of a death Foretold

14 November 202214 November 2022

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

Dollars and Decadence: Making Sense of the US-UAE Relationship

14 November 202222 March 2023

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

EU Support for the Jordanian Media: A Mixed Bag of Successes and Failures

13 December 202114 November 2022

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

Projecting an image of democracy in Jordan: The development of an e-Parliament

13 December 202114 November 2022

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

The Jordan Compact’s Failure to Create Jobs and Power Exports: Explaining a Missed Opportunity

13 December 202114 November 2022

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

Authoritarianism in Jordan, a transnational production: Interview with Benjamin Schuetze

23 June 202114 November 2022

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

Dollars and Decadence: Making Sense of the US-UAE Relationship

31 March 202122 March 2023

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

When repression leaves the shadows in Jordan

7 December 20204 November 2022

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

Fighting against Peace in Libya

25 June 201917 November 2022

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

Reflection on the Sudanese revolutionary Dynamics

7 May 201917 November 2022

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

The Sudanese Revolution: the Climax of a Decade of challenging the Political Order

7 May 201917 November 2022

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

The Mechanisms of the revolutionary Movement among the Sudanese of the Diaspora

Alice Franck1 May 201917 November 2022

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

Class Dynamics, Dissemination of the Sudanese Uprising

Magdi el Gizouli1 May 201917 November 2022

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

Mapping the 2019 Sudan Protests

1 May 201917 November 2022

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

The Sudanese Popular Uprising : From the First Demonstration to the State of Emergency

1 May 201917 November 2022

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

The daily life of the Khartoum sit-in

1 May 201917 November 2022

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

Political Economy of the Regime and Revolt

Raphaëlle Chevrillon-Guibert1 May 201917 November 2022

  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

The Third Sudanese Revolution Reinstates Women from all Walks of Life onto the Map of Sudanese Public Life

Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz1 May 201917 November 2022

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

The Spatial Dimension of the four-months-long Sudanese Uprising

Mohamed A. G. Bakhit1 May 201917 November 2022

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

Leftist Leanings and the Enlivening of Revolutionary Memory

Elena Vezzadini1 May 201917 November 2022

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

“Oriental Christians” in France and in Syria : Political Stakes and Redefined Identities

Claire Lefort-Rieu31 January 20194 November 2022

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

Libya’s Territorial and Institutional Division

3 January 201917 November 2022

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

The Return of the State and Inter-Militia Competition in Northern Iraq

14 June 20184 November 2022

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

Actors and Territories in Northern Iraq

14 May 20184 November 2022

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 Political Stakes of the Battle for Mosul

18 December 201617 November 2022

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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Competing Actors and Fragmented Territories in Iraq and Syria

Competing Actors and Fragmented Territories in Iraq and Syria

22 November 201617 November 2022

 

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The strategy of Jabhat Al-Nusra / Jabhat Fath Al-Sham in regarding the truces in Syria

The strategy of Jabhat Al-Nusra / Jabhat Fath Al-Sham in regarding the truces in Syria

2 October 201617 November 2022

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

Iraq from the Ground

29 June 201617 November 2022

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

Shiite nationalism? Sistani, Present in Absence

25 May 201617 November 2022

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?

The 2012 Local Elections in the West Bank: a Display of Discreet Authoritarianism?

12 January 201617 November 2022

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

Exiled Between Two Authoritarianisms: the Sudanese Exiled in Cairo, from Hosni Mubarak to Abdel Fattah El-Sisi

Maaï Youssef16 October 201517 November 2022

“(…) 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: a War of All Against All

Valentina Napolitano28 May 201517 November 2022

“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

Israel and its “Infiltrators”: Reflecting upon a political crisis

Pauline Brücker11 March 201517 November 2022

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 Iraqi Crisis: A Return on Social Trajectories

25 February 201517 November 2022

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

The Peshmergas and the Future of the State

Anne Hagood21 January 201517 November 2022

  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

The Sunni Revolution and the Outburst of Community Divisions in Iraq

18 December 201417 November 2022

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

Sectarian Strategies, National Settings and the War Economy in Syria and Iraq

16 July 20144 November 2022

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

Sectarian Strategies, National Settings and the War Economy in Syria and Iraq

16 July 20144 November 2022

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

Testimony of General Ahmed Tlass on the Syrian Regime and the Repression

28 April 201417 November 2022

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

Transformations of Trans-Border Areas in the Context of the Syrian Conflict

19 February 201417 November 2022

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

19 December 201317 November 2022

“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

Between Al Qaeda and the Syrian regime: A Path Out of the Current Crisis

8 December 201317 November 2022

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

Mapping Competing Strategies in the Syrian Conflict

5 November 201317 November 2022

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

National Territory Crumbling: The Dynamics of Syria’s Borders

1 November 201317 November 2022

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

The Civilian Administration of the Insurgency in Aleppo

24 October 201317 November 2022

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

Komalah Mountains

17 March 201214 November 2022

“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

Iraqi Christians

17 March 201214 November 2022

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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