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  • People gather to hold a pro-Palestinian demonstration organized upon the invitation of the Islamic Action Front, the political wing of the Muslim Brothers in Amman, Jordan on October 10, 2023. (Photo: Picture Alliance/ Laith Al-jnaidi / Anadolu)
    Political Islam in Jordan

    What's next for the Muslim Brotherhood?

    An official ban on the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan has brought the movement to a critical crossroads. Its political arm is struggling to preserve its platform and avoid the fate of its counterparts in Egypt and Tunisia.

  • A burnt out truck full of trash bags. On the window frame a sign reads "Here lies Mubark's government!"
    Egyptian author Youssef Rakha

    "The Cairo I've known is being eroded"

    Youssef Rakha revisits Egypt's 2011 uprising and its aftermath in "The Dissenters", the author's first novel written in English. The Arab Spring failed, he argues in this interview, because it was a neoliberal movement with no compelling vision for the future.

  • Participants in a protest waved the Tunisian flag and raised banners demanding union rights, social and economic rights, and social dialogue in the country.
    UGTT in crisis

    The decline of Tunisia's most powerful trade union

    Plagued by internal divisions, Tunisia's UGTT union is losing the political influence it gained after the 2011 revolution. What is behind the crisis—and how has President Kais Saied capitalised?

  • Emel Mathlouthi performing in a pink dress
    Feminism & Pop in Tunisia

    "The world doesn’t want loud women"

    Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi, an icon of resistance during the 2011 Arab Spring protests, recently released an album exclusively produced by women. A conversation on metal, feminism and the beauty of the Arabic language.

  • A group of young men carrying guns, one has a Syrian revolutionary flag wrapped around his shoulders.
    Dawn of a new era

    Zero hour in Syria

    After more than half a century in power, the Assad regime has fallen. The end of one of recent history's most brutal dictatorships has sparked both joy and deep uncertainty about the country's future. Who are Syria's most powerful factions? And are there any "good guys"?

  • Protesters waving flags and banners
    Islamists in Idlib

    Syrian protesters rise up against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

    Opponents of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad seeking refuge in Idlib are now protesting against local Islamist hardliners Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. The group is accused of becoming increasingly dictatorial

  • A road sign indicating the route to Egypt's Administrative Capital, designed to accommodate six and a half million people
    Egypt's New Capital

    Counter-revolution completed

    With Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's move into his new presidential palace and the inauguration of the new administrative capital, the Egyptian military's counter-revolution of 30 June 2013 is complete

  • One year of civil war in Sudan
    A year of war in Sudan

    "We haven't lived in dignity for a long time"

    In her debut novel "A Mouth Full of Salt", Sudanese author and physician Reem Gaafar tells the intertwined stories of three women who are confronted with injustice. A conversation about responsible writing, role models and the forgotten war in Sudan

  • Protesters hold up placards and wave Druze flags, Sweida city, Syria, 27 August 2023
    Anti-Assad protests in Syria's Sweida governate

    New wave of violence after protester death?

    Locals in southern Syria have been protesting peacefully for months now, despite their government's brutal crackdown. But in late February, for the first time, a demonstrator was killed

  • German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip
    Germany's policy on Egypt

    Neither value-driven nor feminist

    Germany's policy on Egypt is based on economic interests and a fear the country may collapse. As a result it contributes to stabilising Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's brutal regime

  • Egyptians waving an Egyptian flag demonstrate against the Muslim Brother Mohammed Morsi
    Egypt's Muslim Brothers

    "Who determines the future of the Brotherhood remains unclear"

    Since the military coup in Egypt ten years ago, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's government has cracked down on the country's Muslim Brotherhood. Abdelrahman Ayash talks about the impact of this crisis, and how the organisation has evolved since 2013

  • A Palestinian scarf is held aloft amid a sea of hands during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Egypt
    Arab popular support for Gaza

    How pro-Palestinian protests threaten Middle East autocrats

    In some Middle Eastern countries, pro-Palestinian rallies recall pro-democracy protests from 2011. Now, the region's authoritarian leaders are worried the conflict in Gaza could alter the political status quo at home

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