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Society
The Arab Spring as a Turning Point
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab 12 November 2025

Undoubtedly, 2011 was a turning point in the history of the Arab region. The 2011 popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Syria, and, to a lesser extent, Morocco, were followed by another wave of such uprisings in Algeria, Iraq, and Lebanon in 2019. The genocidal war raging in Gaza since 2023 has taken the region to a yet deeper abyss in existential, moral, political, and economic terms. How have thinkers of the region been interacting with these upheavals? How have these dramatic events impacted the intellectual scene of the region?
International Affairs
Decline of Freedom, Collapse of Politics:
End of Parties throughout the MENA
Claudia De Martino 19 July 2023

Democracy is not doing well in the MENA region and political parties are the main casualties, surviving through life-support mechanisms but failing to make inroads in their respective national political contexts.
Migrations, Society
A Fractured Maghreb: Infighting and Grudges
Instead of Unity and Cooperation
Rabii El Gamrani 22 December 2022

The Maghreb countries cooperated with each other to the birth of the Arab Maghreb Union. Thirty-three years after, even circulating is hard
International Affairs
Libya’s Long-Awaited Unity Government: an Uphill Struggle
Federica Zoja 15 March 2021

The UN-sponsored Geneva talks have led to a new unity cabinet led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibah. Challenges ahead and unconvincing first moves.
International Affairs
The Libyan Crisis and the Ineffectiveness of the International Community
Moncef Djaziri 22 November 2019

Two presidents of the Libyan Central Bank (each one printing its own bills), practically two national oil companies with two distinct policies for the management of oil resources, two governments, and two parliaments. Despite the UN’s efforts, the contending Libyan parties have no yeat reached an accord, isn’t the road of dialogue and diplomacy leading to a stalemate?
Religion
Non-believers: atheism in the crosshairs of Egyptian legislators
Federica Zoja 2 May 2018

The Arab spring uprising opened the way to public debates inconceivable in North African countries before 2011. Yet, the reaction of the Cairo authorities has been very hostile to “free thinkers”, including citizens who eschew religion.
International Affairs, Migrations
Is the Caliphate really over? The migration of ISIS militants
Ilaria Romano 7 March 2018

Is Daesh really over? Unfortunately not, and the organization can take advantage of the chaotic situations in both Iraq and Syria.
International Affairs
Our Book on State Building in Libya
Arturo Varvelli 5 October 2017

Since the revolution in 2011, the Libyan crisis has increasingly imposed itself as a global issue. Particularly over the past few years, Libya has indeed moved from being a merely domestic dispute to gathering the interests of different foreign players, thus coming to represent a matter of international security
International Affairs
Libya: the Deadlock in Reaching a Political Agreement and the Problems Posed by the Democratic Transition
Moncef Djaziri 9 September 2017

This paper addresses the political crisis in Libya and the 2015 Libyan Political Agreement also known as the Skhirat agreement (Morocco). The objective is to show that this crisis is a profound one and caused by circumstances Libya has experienced since the beginning of this transition in 2011.
International Affairs
The Post-Almohadian Man and the Construction of Modern Libya
Massimo Campanini 9 July 2017

This short paper is meant to be an introduction intended to wonder whether Libya ever existed or is a modern invention1. Broadly speaking, the answer can be found in the following clear-cut sentence of Jamil Abu’n-Nasr: “The area forming present-day Libya begins to have its own political identity after the Arab conquest only with the establishment of Ottoman rule in it at the middle of the sixteenth century