Governance & Political Reform

Egypt’s Struggle for Stability in a Volatile Environment

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 September 2020
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The paradoxes of Sudanese politics

Conference by Abdelwahab El-Affendi, President and Provost of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and Rachid Aarab Aarab, Lecturer, UAB

 25 May 2023

Yemen: fragmentation, mediation and humanitarian crisis

Lecture by Leyla Hamad, researcher at the department of Arab and Islamic Studies and Oriental Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and Blanca Camps-Febrer, UAB

 18 May 2023

Las protestas de 2022 en perspectiva y prospectiva

Las protestas han vuelto a poner en duda la legitimidad y estabilidad de la República Islámica. Sin embargo, su futuro depende más de las fuerzas y equilibrios dentro del sistema político

 30 March 2023

Israel: la extrema derecha y los ultraortodoxos en posición dominante

La línea más conservadora ha arraigado en Israel. La presencia de figuras extremistas en el nuevo gobierno Netanyahu y la reforma judicial en marcha son una muestra de ello

 30 March 2023

No global health security without strong and resilient health systems in the Mediterranean

The rapid spread of COVID-19 pandemic globally demonstrates how health can become a security concern for a nation. It also showed how a holistic approach to health is needed, reflecting both a security approach and a health development approach.

 12 December 2022

“Kais Said es imprevisible, ni él sabe qué hará mañana”

Entrevista de afkar/ideas a Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, líder de la principal plataforma opositora en Túnez, que aboga por la unión de los partidos para hacer de contrapeso y luchar por conservar los logros democráticos.

 22 November 2022

Nationalism, Islam and Democracy in Turkey

This article tries to dissect the relationship between Islam, nationalism, and democracy in twenty-first-century Turkey.

 3 November 2022

Implications of the Conversion of Hagia Sophia into a Mosque, Inside and Outside Turkey

The Hagia Sophia’s conversion can also be seen as marking Turkey’s reemergence in regional politics.

 4 October 2022

Migration as a “Threat”

The instrumentalization of migration at the European Union’s external borders is starting to become commonplace.

 4 October 2022

Climate Migration in the Eye of the Storm: A Future Challenge for the Mediterranean Region

The fact that climate change is not the main direct driver of cross-border and intra-regional migration today, does not imply that climate-related environmental stressors will not continue to increase over the next few years.

 4 October 2022

The Fluidity of Extremism: The Reshaping of Radicalization in MENA and the Balkans

Drawing from the study of seven pre-identified drivers, CONNEKT reveals the dominant role of state security actors and the disconnect between them and civil society actors dealing with mostly grassroots preventive strategies.

 4 October 2022

The Role of Social Media in the Fight for Women’s Rights

Despite all the hatred and disinformation, digital activism has served as the tool to not only spread a message, anger and discomfort, but also to empower and gather a powerful revolutionary movement, leading many women in the MENA region to take to...

 4 October 2022