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.
En un contexto de crisis económica, los regímenes árabes recurren a medidas coercitivas para frenar el descontento, con el riesgo de desencadenar una tercera ola revolucionaria.
Prueba de una clara fractura entre gobernantes y gobernados, la resiliencia demostrada por el ‘Hirak’, a pesar de las limitaciones, se enfrenta a la resistencia del régimen actual.
Las medidas sanitarias parecen tener un cariz más de seguridad, con el fin de sofocar las tensiones sociales.
Florence Gaub discusses about the future in the Middle East and North Africa, exposing that while Arab Springs have not improved the situation in the region there are a lot of opportunities.
The session addresses the experience of multilateral collaboration between economies with different levels of development, paying special attention to the structural factors of the MENA region and the conditions for its transformation.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Barcelona Process, CIDOB and its partners launch a series of dialogues on how cities can be given a greater role in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
