FES MENA Blog

From Beirut to Khartoum and from Rabat to Teheran, our FES colleagues, partners as well as guest contributors share their insights from the ground and offer food for thought on current developments in the MENA region.

The views expressed in this blog series are not necessarily those of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.


Blog News

16.12.2020 | Blog

The First Decade of the Arab Revolutionary Process

Ten years ago, on 17 December 2010, a young street vendor in the town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia sparked a political firestorm that soon...


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02.10.2020 | Blog

Urbanization in the MENA region: A Benefit or a Curse?

Cities of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region share many characteristics that are not limited to their shared heritage, traditional urban...


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22.09.2020 | Blog

Is Local Media in the MENA Region ready to take the Climate Crisis Seriously now?

From droughts to floods to heatwaves, communities across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have been experiencing the consequences of...


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10.09.2020 | Blog

Urban Resilience and the Danger of Urbanization without Urbanism

Can we live sustainably and just in cities in the future? Will land flight make cities a hotspot for environmental degradation and social injustice?


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03.09.2020 | Blog

The delusion of beliefs

What makes you who you are today? If we make a list of words that would identify us as people, we will most likely include either our belief system,...


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Illustration: Yara Hindawi
19.08.2020 | Blog

Migrant domestic workers and the Kafala system: the extensive network of oppression

The boundaries between the living conditions under Kafala system and slavery are vague.


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04.08.2020 | Blog

Saving Public Money: A means or and end?

The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the importance of healthcare and education systems quality, which stirred the public and shifted the focus of...


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Illustration: Yara Hindawi
23.07.2020 | Blog

Being "Black" in the MENA region

It had become a truism in Arab culture that the term "black" when referring to people with a swarthier skin than the Mediterranean, olive skin-looking...


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09.06.2020 | Blog

Chronicling the Coronavirus: A Perspective from Jordan

The team at the West Asia-North Africa Institute (WANA) has put together a working chronology of the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and a...


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02.06.2020 | Blog

The Algerian economy put to the test by Covid-19: Do we need to reinvent everything?

Algeria is facing the Covid-19 crisis in a particular situation: a protest movement, which began in February 2019, has pushed the leaders in power...


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