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A Decade of Demonstrations and Protest Movements in the Arab World

Recourse to protest as a tool for expression and civic engagement has intensified worldwide over the last decade. In the Middle East and North Africa, the number of protests between 2009 and 2019 increased 16.5%.

 20 octobre 2020

Tunisia: General Overview of the Country

2019 was a tumultuous year for Tunisia. The year saw a transition of presidential and legislative power, persistent economic challenges including rampant corruption, and an ever-growing mistrust of the political class.

 7 octobre 2020

Towards a New Social Pact in Morocco? The “New” Development Model and the COVID-19 Crisis

Over 2019 and 2020, the royal and state agenda was r marked by the emergence of the health, social and economic crises linked to the coronavirus and a renewed social unrest challenging the violation of individual freedoms.

 1 octobre 2020

Holding back the Old Demons in the Euro-Mediterranean Region in Post-pandemic Times: Populism and Authoritarianism

The COVID-19 pandemic can, in all respects, be considered among the most consequential geopolitical events of recent times. It has drastically changed our everyday lives and severely hampered economic activities on a global scale.

 24 septembre 2020

Lebanon in Freefall

Lebanon’s luck ran out in 2019. The country’s unsustainable debt, bad governance, internal contradictions and vulnerability to foreign interference, finally caught up with it, sending the country into economic freefall.

 17 septembre 2020

Jordan: An Uncertain Stability

The year 2019 was a relatively quiet one for Jordan, after the protests of 2018. However, instability persists in the government, which has been reshuffled four times in just over a year.

 16 septembre 2020

Egypt’s Struggle for Stability in a Volatile Environment

The lack of channels for social demands creates the conditions for sudden explosions of anger. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed some latent contradictions within Egyptian society.

 15 septembre 2020

Algeria in 2020: A Weakened Power Facing a Multidimensional Crisis

Politically weakened, economically failing and socially in turmoil, Algeria has not been spared the COVID 19 pandemic.

 15 septembre 2020
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Democratic Change and Urbanisation in the Aftermath of the Arab Revolts: Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Cooperation in Local Urban Development in Morocco and Tunisia

In its response to the Arab revolts, the EU only engaged marginally with their urban causes, and above all from a technical rather than political perspective. Euro-Mediterranean cultural cooperation programmes were an exception.

 15 juillet 2020

1979-2019 : 40 ans de guerre au Moyen-Orient

Hamit Bozarslan, directeur des études à l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) de Paris, souligne que cette spécificité tient aux dynamiques qui se sont générées dans le monde arabe en 1979 (avec l'échec des mouvements de ga...

 5 mars 2020

Hezbollah and the Lebanese Popular Movement

Since its creation, Hezbollah’s resistance to Israel has given the party great popular legitimacy. However, the Party of God is today the target of the anger of large segments of Lebanese society.

 17 février 2020

Le Hezbollah et le mouvement populaire libanais, réactions et défis

Les origines des manifestations au Liban peuvent se résumer en deux mots: néolibéralisme et sectarisme. Le parti Hezbollah accuse le mouvement de protestation d'être contrôlé par des intérêts étrangers.

 13 février 2020