On 23 June 2020, the National Public Radio interviewed the researcher Mazen Ezzi of our Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project (WPCS) about the ongoing protests that are threatening Assad’s Hold On Power. Find the PODCAST here
Depuis la révolution du Jasmin, la Tunisie, plus jeune démocratie dans la région, vit une conjoncture économique des plus défavorables. La transition démocratique a eu pour conséquence directe une instabilité politique durable. Pas moins de huit gouvernements se sont succédé Read More …
Conservatives, in the United States and elsewhere, are sometimes faulted for blaming “the 1960s” for many of today’s most persistent social ills. Surveying the situation in contemporary Europe, French social theorist Olivier Roy suggests that they are mostly right—at least Read More …
The head of the Coptic Church in Egypt, Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, has been leading a process of reform since he assumed the papacy in 2012. His reformist approach includes both internal measures related to religious rituals and an Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share a new policy brief by Tamer Badawi, Programme Associate. The coronavirus pandemic is helping the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) in Iraq to function as an auxiliary relief agency besides its role as a combatant force. Read More …
This paper was published in Arabic on 12 June and updated on 15 June 2020. Find it here. Since 6 June 2020, protests against deteriorating living conditions have been ongoing in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida. The political slogans chanted Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share a new Research Project Report from the Wartime and Post Conflict in Syria project (WPCS). Being exhausted by war and suffering from substantial economic losses, the Syrian state’s capacity to provide the people with social Read More …
Since the Libyan Arab Armed Forces took control of the southern region on 15 January 2019, the southwestern capital Sebha has continued to deal with several crises, including the most recent outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The first coronavirus case Read More …
On 4 June 2020 the Middle East Directions Programme of the EUI organised the online roundtable The Promise and Peril of Online Activism During the COVID19 Pandemic with Professor Sahar Aziz, Rutgers University Law School. In her presentation, Professor Aziz underlines how Read More …
On 29 May 2020, the Middle East Directions Programme of the EUI organised the online roundtable Transparency for a Time of Crisis and Long-term Growth in the Middle East and North Africa with Daniel Lederman, Lead Economist and Deputy Chief Read More …
