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.
Conference by Abdelwahab El-Affendi, President and Provost of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and Rachid Aarab Aarab, Lecturer, UAB
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
Conference by Umut Özkirimli, senior research fellow at IBEI and associate senior researcher at CIDOB. Moderated by by Ana Ballesteros Peiró, Phd in Arab and Islamic Studies and associate senior researcher at CIDOB.
Debate about Tunisia with two of the collaborators of afkar/ideas magazine.
Sixth research seminar takes place, which addresses a wide range of issues affecting the Mediterranean region, bringing together experts and the latest research on various topics related to the Euro-Mediterranean region.
The EuroMeSCo Annual Conference 2021 intends to actively contribute to the reflection over rolling out the new agenda for the Mediterranean, a few weeks after the release of the EU Joint Communication.
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.
Protests in the streets of the Arab world in 2011 and those taking place today in some countries in the region, such as Algeria or Lebanon, have a specific weight, different than protests with similar claims elsewhere.
The origins of the protests in Lebanon can be summed up in two words: neoliberalism and sectarianism. The Hezbollah party has been accusing the protest movement of being controlled by foreign interests.
Walid Abdelnasser, director of the Office for Arab Countries of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), reviews the historical development of the intellectual property system in the Maghreb and the Middle East.