Exclusive – At a time when the whole world is facing an exceptional health situation, one would think that the fight against Covid-19 has become the main battlefield, and rightly so, given the lethality of the virus and its speed Read More …
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
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 strongman of the East has been weakened by a series of defeats in recent weeks. Could his Russian and Emirati allies drop him anyway? What follow-up for the Turkish operation in support of the Tripoli government? Has the conflict Read More …
On 8 May 2020, BIBLIOBS hosted an op-ed (in French) by Prof. Olivier Roy. Après le temps de l’œcuménisme contre le virus, l’Eglise a fait de la réouverture des lieux de culte un casus belli avec l’Etat. Sauf qu’au lieu Read More …
“We are watching a second wave of the Arab Spring”. In Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria and Sudan, people are again calling for the overthrow of regimes. Middle East expert Georges Fahmi warns against rash new elections. To continue reading the article Read More …
Saturday 5th of October 2019, on the sidelines of the Festival di Internazionale 2019 taking place in Ferrara, Prof. Olivier Roy had a conversation with the journalist Valeria Manieri for Radio Radicale. In this talk Prof. Roy tackled various topics Read More …
In April 2018, the minister-president of Bavaria, leader of the Christlich-Soziale Union, ordered crosses to be displayed in the foyers of all government buildings, as an expression of the state’s “social and cultural identity” and “an affirmation of our cultural Read More …
The sacred and politics. Schuman, De Gasperi, Adenauer. They were religious people, the founding fathers of Europe. But they did not believe it necessary to highlight those roots. Today, however, there is an urge to because the roots are no Read More …
On Tuesday 20 August Prof. Olivier Roy was invited to the debate on Getting to know each other in order to understand one another, understanding one another in order to coexist, organised by Comunione and Liberazione in the frame of Read More …
