Posted on December 23, 2020. Tags: Africa, Algeria, cooperation, ECOWAS, Guerguerat, Jerusalem, Maghreb, Maroc, Mauritania, morocco, NATO, normalisation, Peace, Polisario, Politics, Sahara dispute, UN Security Council, United States, Western Sahara
American recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over its Sahara and the normalisation of relations between Morocco and Israel could have lasting benefits for the cause of peace in North Africa and the Middle East. For North Africa, the Sahara dispute between Morocco and the Algerian backed Polisario has dragged on for 45 years, making it one […]
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Posted in Africa, Conflict, Culture, Economic Security, Economics, Global Economy, Israel, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Middle East, NATO, Political Security, Refugees, Religion, Security Issues, UN, US, World
Posted on December 10, 2017. Tags: 16 Days of Activism, Africa, CEDAW, Corruption, Culture, Democracy, Europe, gender, Globalization, Human Rights, Justice for Women, Middle East, Politics, She Can, UN, United Kingdom, United States, UNWomen, Violence Against Women, Women, Women's Rights, World
The television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has gripped viewers and political pundits alike, since its release in April 2017, for its astonishingly realistic parallels between the fictional world of Gilead, and the very real Donald Trump led USA. As the global campaign for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence draws to […]
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Posted in Culture, Global Economy, Security Issues, UN, World
Posted on July 2, 2016. Tags: Art, Censorship, Control, Corruption, Creatives, Culture, Democracy, Erdogan, Expression, FIlm, Free Speech, Freedom, Human Rights, Istanbul, Kurds, Music, Politics, Press, Turkey
Turkey has a history of strict censorship which still remains a prominent issue in modern day Istanbul and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. Media censorship is at an all time high with 140 press censorship cases already known in the country, newspapers have been shut down and journalists imprisoned. Now censorship is spreading to the […]
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Posted in Culture, Europe, Middle East, Political Security, Turkey, World
Posted on July 11, 2012. Tags: Africa, Culture, Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh, Richard Nixon, U.S. Foreign Policy, United States
“It is reasonable to argue that but for the coup, Iran would be a mature democracy. So traumatic was the coup’s legacy that when the Shah finally departed in 1979, many Iranians feared a repetition of 1953, which was one of the motivations for the student seizure of the U.S. Embassy. The hostage crisis, in […]
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Posted in Africa, Culture, Europe, Middle East, Security Issues, World
Posted on January 14, 2015. Tags: Bill Maher, Charlie Hebdo, CNN, Islam, Islamic State, Saudi Arabia
This isn’t a new video but in the aftermath of Charlie Hebdo and the standard rush to judgement on the nature of Islam, Reza Aslan is worth listening to.
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Posted in Culture, Global Politics Videos, Islam, Middle East, Security Issues, Terrorism, World
Posted on December 6, 2015. Tags: history, ISIL, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Middle East, morocco, radicalism, Terrorism
The recent creation and sudden conquests of the so-called “Islamic State” have astonished policy-makers, military strategists, and foreign affairs analysts. The self-proclaimed caliphate of Abû al-Baghdâdi went from a broken outfit of Iraqi insurgents to a feared theocracy that currently threatens the established order of the Middle East. One can be forgiven for thinking such a movement as being […]
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Posted in Africa, Culture, Education, Islam, Middle East, Religion, Terrorism, World
Posted on April 15, 2014. Tags: change, children, colleges, creativity, degrees, Education, employment, finland, Industrial, ken, learning, literature, reforms, Revolution, robinson, school, sir, standardized, Students, testing, the, thinking, World
It is widely believed that the most influential era ever to be blessed by the infinite capacities of the human brain was the Industrial Revolution. With the world revolving around the sudden purge of development, everything began to be constituted along the blueprint of the infrastructure of the Industrial Revolution. The process of standardizing all […]
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Posted in Culture, Economics, Education, Europe, Global Economy