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Published: December 12, 2024 18:00
"Cell Phones Behind Bars in Lebanon" -- Chafic Tony Najem examined the use of cell phone videos as a tool of resistance inside the Lebanese prison system for our Fall Issue, Carceral Realities and Freedom Dreams.
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Published: December 12, 2024 17:00
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Published: December 12, 2024 14:49
Benjamin Schuetze’s article, “The Uneven Politics of Decarbonization in the Middle East and North Africa” has just been published in Arabic by our comrades at Project Zero/Al-sifr! Check it out! اقرأ الان! https://alsifr.org/decarbonization-mena
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Published: December 11, 2024 16:00
The Turkish intervention in the Syrian conflict cannot be understood outside of the political economy of the AKP regime in Turkey. @sinemadar.bsky.social's 2020 essay lays out aims to sideline Kurdish forces, and demographically engineer both Syria and…
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Published: December 11, 2024 14:00
The Struggle for Syria's Regions (2013): This landmark article by Kheder Khaddour and Kevin Mazur charts how the remarkable survival of the Asad regime has relied on the subtle manipulation of subnational regionality.
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Published: December 10, 2024 21:00
The Political Economy of Erdoğan's Syria Gamble: Turkey’s role in the Syrian conflict has in many ways been a tool for re-sculpting its domestic political economy to benefit the clientelistic regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. As Şahan Savaş Karataşlı details…
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Published: December 10, 2024 19:00
Syria Dispatch (From 2017): Samer Abboud laid out the politics of US intervention under the Obama and early Trump administrations. As Trump appears set to inherit a similar situation to eight years ago, Abboud’s analysis remains relevant.…
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Published: December 10, 2024 17:00
The Tragedies and Dilemmas of US Intervention in NE Syria -- In 2020, Sean Lee encapsulated the many-sides of the conflict, its ramifications for leftists, and the tragedy of a US-led intervention in the conflict that drove it to a bloody stalemate.…
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Published: December 10, 2024 16:40
Our Fall Issue, Carceral Realities and Freedom Dreams, covered the work of anti-carceral activism and logic across the Middle East. It's taking on new resonance now as prisons are being opened in Syria following the fall of Bashar Al-Asad.…
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Published: December 3, 2024 21:00
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