It seems that all Mauritania's sources of discontent are erupting at once. But protests are nothing new in this land where a coup has been the answer to every political ill, whether real or imagined, for decades. Ein Gastbeitrag von Anita Hunt...
I am asking myself what children will be told in school about the ‘Arab Spring’ in ten to twenty years. What their textbooks will read like about the events that were triggered in 2011. How will this part of history that is still in the making be...
By Adi Livny Some say feminists have no sense of humor. I found myself wondering if this applied to me as well, when I caught a glimpse of the posters recently released by the Israeli anti-occupation group "Solidarity Sheikh Jarrah". The...
Ein Gastkommentar von Will Picard On February 21, Yemen will hold a presidential election that will defy almost every notion of what an election should be. Contrary to Yemeni law, the “election” will feature only one candidate, whose victory has...
Ein Gastbeitrag von Alex Thurston Mali’s presidential elections, now little more than two months away, were supposed to mark the country’s triumph as a young and stable democracy. Mali approaches a milestone – the second peaceful transfer of power...
First post-revolutions elections offered groups known as “Islamists” first positions in three Arab countries. This article attemps at explaining some of the reasons behind these results, and argues that post elections “islamists” will not remain the...
Ein Gastbeitrag von Alex Thurston Colonel Muammar Qadhafi is dead, but his friendships with Libya’s southern neighbors continue to complicate Sahelian politics. Niger in particular has keenly felt the impact of Libya’s civil war. An estimated 75,000...
Ein Gastkommentar von Faraz Sanei, Nahost-Analyst bei Human Rights Watch (HRW) in New York. On the afternoon of April 12, plain-clothes security officials arrested Ghazi Farhan, a businessman, in his office parking lot. They blindfolded and...
Ein Gastbeitrag von Kari Vogt, emeritierte Professorin am Institut für Kulturwissenschaften und orientalische Sprachen an der Universität Oslo / by Kari Vogt, Researcher, Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Oslo, Norway . The tragedy taking...
Liebe Leserinnen und Leser, bereits am 22. Juli berichtete Alsharq über Proteste in Tel Aviv angesichts der Preisexplosion auf dem israelischen Wohnungsmarkt. Nun ist der "Israelische Sommer" in aller Munde, landesweit wird gegen soziale...
For four years Jamil Sayyed, former chief of Lebanon's General Directorate of General Security, was detained as one of the main suspects in the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Robert Chatterjee and Christoph Dinkelaker...
Ich bin derzeit auf Einladung der Deutschen Welle - Akademie zu Gast beim Young Media Summit 2011 in Kairo. 17 junge Blogger und Journalisten aus Deutschland und der Arabischen Welt treffen sich, diskutieren, tauschen sich aus. Gestern war ich mit...
