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The World without Colonies – Dakhla without Potemkin Village
Last November marked forty two years since 350,000 Moroccans crossed into the Western Sahara as part of the staged manipulation called “Green March.” November...
Forced Displacement to Cities Demands an Urban Development Approach to the Crisis
Forced displacement is increasingly an urban crisis that needs an integrated humanitarian and development approach in towns and cities hosting displaced populations to better...
The Cyber Gulag revisited & Debate reloaded
Is there life after Facebook? Or after the Spring-ing ‘revolution’? Now, when Wall Street is occupied, how will we occupy ourselves? Could we google...
The meeting between al-Sarraj and General Khalifa Haftar
L ast mid-February both the leader of Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez al-Sarraj, and the leader of the Libyan National Army...
Reviewing the Libyan issue
A re we sure we have so far well-interpreted Libya’s scenario, its strategic balances and the nature of our real interests in that...
Pipelines or Pipe Dreams? Turkey’s Role in Future European Energy Policy
T urkey demonstrates obvious and unique geostrategic significance for the Euro-Atlantic community and as an influential player at the center of Western...
The two Libyan governments reunited
What the Enlightenment political philosopher Montesquieu wrote: "There are three types of government ...." does not apply to the Maghreb region where there are...
Syria, Serious, the most Syria-ous
How can we observe and interpret (the distance between) success and failure from a historical perspective? This question remains a difficult one to (satisfy...
Forces that Create Refugees and Migrants
Current refugee-migrant flows (from Burma and Bangladesh toward Thailand and Malaysia and across the Mediterranean from Africa and the Middle East toward Europe) have...