After decades of marginalization, many of Lebanon’s approximately 250,000 domestic workers are demanding an end to their exploitation and fighting back against racism. At the conference “Connecting Resistances – Emancipatory Activism in West Asia...
What's research got to do with authoritarian politics? Why are “innovative policy-approaches” so darn unpolitical? And what's the point of discussion after all? Inadvertently, a Winter School about transformative changes in the MENA-region gave...
How Egypt's authorities tried everything to raise the turnout at the presidential elections.
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With Al-Sisi left to ‘compete’ against one of his supporters, Moussa Mostafa Moussa, the real...
First it seemed as if Al-Sisi would have to run alone in the elections. Now one of his biggest supporters is competing against him.
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As serious rivals of Al-Sisi started vanishing from the race one...
Egypt is to vote for a president starting this Monday. But all serious opposition candidates have quit the race way before it started, some under suspicious circumstances.
The Egyptian presidential race caused lots of controversies before it...
When negotiations are at a dead end: In recent weeks, Alsharq (now: dis:orient) published a series of articles regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and suggesting new approaches towards it. Especially the European Union has various measures...
Israelis are increasingly divided over the urgency of peace. Polling indicates that various forms of sanctions intended to pressure Israel can signal urgency, but mostly among those who already support a two-state agreement. It is worth...
The post-Oslo generation neither meets “the other side” nor does it know much about its situation. This is why dialogue fora could play an important role. But talks over hummus are not satisfying the needs of the societies or create any positive...
External incentives are an important asset in supporting processes of conflict resolution and have also been an instrument in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In fact, the international and regional community have brought forward two relatively...
