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.
The storming of the Iraqi parliament by supporters of Al-Sadr were motivated by years of political impasse — threatening Iraq's democracy and peace
Since their inception in the mid-eighties, and for over more than two decades, Moroccan feminist organizations have been instrumental in advocating...
In Tunisia and all over the world, populist personalities manage to reach power by borrowing an irrational discourse that uses emotions to the...
Women protest denouncing the violence that took place against them at an earlier protest against the military in Sudan.
“I staged a sit-in at home. I hung up posters around the apartment to challenge my parents who would not let me head to Maydan”, recounts a woman in...
This piece explores the ways in which feminist blogging has the potential of re-politicizing feminist movements and offers an overview of the...
Disrupting societal customs and perceptions that legitimize, promote, and conceal violence against women is one of the many goals we seek to...
This article takes a critical look at the manifestation of “impostor feminism” in Lebanon today, a form of self-attributed feminism that shies away...
Climate change and social justice are closely interlinked. The consequences of climate change threaten to further exacerbate the existing inequalities...
Public debt has skyrocketed in middle-income countries like Tunisia. Yet, the IMF and G20 are pushing for austerity measures, not debt relief.
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