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Who cares if the Middle-East is incompatible with democracy?
This article is a response to an article by Sami Oussama Filali Naji claiming that democracy is compatible with the …
Where does the term “Arab Spring” originate?
When I first moved to the Middle East, to Egypt in September 2010, the talk on the street was of …
The Arab world is compatible with democracy
I would like to thank Laura Hawkes for her inputs to this article. I would also like to thank Lorenzo …
The Arab Spring – 5 years on
Five years ago, a series of unprecedented uprisings and demonstrations broke out in countries across the Middle East and North …
What is Wahhabism and why is it in North Africa?
Over the last two decades, a strand of Islam, relatively unknown to many Westerners, had been brought into sharp focus …
North African millennials need better education
In Islamic tradition, the first divine revelation received by our beloved Prophet Mohammed was ‘Read’, and this was repeated three …