5 articles

• The First Decade of the Arab Revolutionary Process

  21 December 2020, by Gilbert Achcar

  Ten years ago, a young street vendor in Tunisia caused a political storm that would quickly spread throughout the Arab-speaking region in what is known as "the Arab Spring". Social eruptions and political protests continued to occur in country after country, and from region to region within the same country.

• Choosing between the United States and Iran?

  3 February 2020, by Assafir Al-Arabi, Nahla Chahal, Orient XXI

  In this text, Nahla Chahal, editor-in-chief of Assafir Al-Arabi, presents the dilemmas that the forces of radical change in the Arab world have been facing for decades. These dilemmas are particularly acute today in Iraq and Lebanon.

• A new stage in the Middle East crisis

  15 January 2020, by Pierre Beaudet, Plateforme altermondialiste

  The latest US aggression in Iraq and the threats to bomb Iran are a sign of a bad start in this new year. The assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, as well as the execution of fighters of the Iraqi Kata’ib Hezbollah militia, opens the door to a larger-scale conflagration. The Iraqi government is demanding the departure of the 5,000 American soldiers still present in the country. Teheran is taking the nuclear road again while bombing American military bases in Iraq. Everyone is holding their breath.

• Migrations, a Vanishing Horizon

  15 May 2019, by Mohamed Samih Beji Okkaz, Orient XXI

  Within the framework of the Independent Media Network on the Arab World, the site Orient XXI publishes a dossier of 7 articles on migration in French, English and Arabic. Intercoll has selected two articles from this dossier, also published in the three languages.

• On the concatenation of the Arab world

  7 June 2012, by ANDERSON Perry, New Left Review (NLR)

  In an editorial to the issue #68 of the New Left Review dedicated to the Arab springs, Perry (...)