Added on 04/10/2013
Common Ground News Service
Africa , Bouazizi , Mohamed Bouazizi , National Constituent Assembly , Political geography , Politics , Ramzi Slimani , Sidi Bouzid , Souha Bouazizi , Tunis , Tunisia , Tunisian revolution , Youth Council of Sidi Bouzid , Youth participation
GHADA DALY, CGNEWS: The apathy that Tunisian young people feel for politics is being re-directed in a positive direction into varied civil projects
Added on 17/08/2013
Ramzy Baroud
Africa , Arab Spring , Arab world , Egypt , Egyptian revolution , Hosni Mubarak , Islamism , Member states of La Francophonie , Member states of the Arab League , Member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , Member states of the United Nations , Middle East , Mohammed Mursi , National Democratic Party , National Liberation Front , Nonviolent revolutions , North Africa , Politics , Politics of Egypt , Protests in Egypt , Tunisia
RAMZY BAROUD: in the words of Victor Hugo ‘to simplify is to be an idiot’ and when assessing the turmoil affecting the Middle East there is a lot of simplified commentary
Added on 08/08/2013
Ramzy Baroud
Africa , Algeria , Arab Spring , Arab world , Army , Egypt , Hosni Mubarak , Islamism , Member states of the African Union , Member states of the Arab League , Member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , Member states of the Union for the Mediterranean , Member states of the United Nations , Politics , Tunisia , War/Conflict
RAMZY BAROUD: The parallels between the two countries are uncannily similar. What route will the Egyptian people choose?
Added on 25/07/2013
Common Ground News Service
Business/Finance , IMF Stand-By Arrangement , International development , International economics , International Monetary Fund , International relations , Lotfi Nebli , Mohamed Sghaier Jebali , Tunisia , Tunisian government , United Nations
COMMON GROUND NEWS: A young Tunisian set out himself to find out what the future holds for him and his contemporaries following the news of the recent IMF loan to the country
Added on 27/06/2013
Common Ground News Service
Africa , Ansar Al-Sharia , Arab world , Ennahda , Ennahda Movement , Founding Council , Government , International relations , Mohamed Messai , North Africa , Politics , Rashid al-Ghannushi , Religion/Belief , Sharia , Sousse , Tunisia , Tunisian Constituent Assembly election , Violence
MOHAMMED MESSAI, CGNEWS: Rather than being a last resort the lure of the gun is proving irresistible to all across the political spectrum
Added on 28/02/2013
Common Ground News Service
Africa , Chokri Belaid , Hamadi Jebali , North Africa , Political geography , Politics , Tunis , Tunisia , Tunisian Constituent Assembly election
LAMIA HATIRA, NURA SULEIMAN, CGNEWS: We don’t have a culture of armed conflict but it’s possible that we’re moving in that direction.
Added on 10/02/2013
Juan Cole
Arab Spring , Middle East , Tunisia
JUAN COLE: The assassination of Chokri Belaid has brought tens of thousands Tunisians onto the streets.
Added on 03/01/2013
Naseem Tarawnah
Abdullah , Egypt , Energy crisis , Jordan , Middle East , Muslim Brotherhood , Syria , Tunisia
NASEEM TARAWNAH: There is a sense of crisis in Jordan but it’s a sense that has led to paralysis in all sectors of society. So what does 2013 hold?
Added on 30/12/2012
Juan Cole
Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi , Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Aleppo , Algeria , Ali Abdullah Saleh , America , American embassy , Arab Spring , Baath Party in Syria , Bahrain , Bahrain’s government , Binyamin Netanyahu , David Petraeus , Democracy , Egypt , Egypt Protests , first prime minister , Gaza , Homs , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Lebanon , Libya , Manama , Middle East , Mohammed Morsi , Muslim Brotherhood , Obama administration , Oil , oil sales , Palestine , President , Prime Minister , Saudi Arabia , South Africa , Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , Syria , Tunis , Tunisia , Turkey , U.S. Congress , United States , US government , Washington , Yemen
JUAN COLE: It’s been another extraordinary year across the Middle East. Here is my take on the most significant changes this year
Added on 10/12/2012
Tabsir
Egypt , Gaza , Haaretz , IDF , Israel , Israeli government , Journalism , Journalist , Ministry of Tourism , New York Times , Palestine , South Lebanon , Syria , Tel Aviv , The Jerusalem Post , Thomas Friedman , Tunisia , United Nations , United States
DANIEL M. VARISCO: Another one eyed piece from Mr Friedman. Is it too much to ask that he simply recognises the realities of Palestinian life?
Added on 08/12/2012
Common Ground News Service
Energy , Life , Ministry of Education , Ministry of Health , Tunisia , United Nations
JIHED FREDI, CGNEWS: The recent chaos in Tunisia has allowed drug traffickers to gain a hold and they’re targetting the young with disastrous consequences
Added on 02/12/2012
Juan Cole
Abdullah II , Amman , Arab Spring , Bahrain , Bahrain government , Bashar al-Assad , Constituent Assembly , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Governor , Israel , Jerusalem , Jordan , Lebanon , Libya , Middle East , Mohammed Morsi , Muslim Brotherhood , Palestine , President , Prime Minister , Russia , Sana’a , Senate , South Yemen , Syria , Syrian army , Syrian government , Tahrir Square , Tripoli , Tunis , Tunisia , United Nations , US State Department , Washington , Yemen
JUAN COLE: From Jordan to Tunisia, from civil war to pilfered Palestinian land the Arab world is in a febrile state.
Added on 14/11/2012
Crossroads Arabia
Amazon.com , Egypt , Internet , Internet users , Kuwait , Lebanon , Middle East , Saudi Arabia , Telecommunications , Tunisia
CROSSROADS ARABIA: In a recently published report Al Arabiya seems to have missed a rather significant point about internet access in the region
Added on 29/10/2012
James M. Dorsey
Abdullah , Activist , Africa , Al Khalifa , Arab Spring , Atlantic coast , Bahrain , East Africa , Egypt , Gulf island , Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah , Iran , Jordan , Libya , Manama , Middle East , North Africa , Prime Minister , Saudi Arabia , Syria , The Guardian , Tunisia , Yemen
JAMES M. DORSEY: Sharp sectarian divides between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the Middle East constitutes the Achilles heel for Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Jordan.
Added on 24/10/2012
Common Ground News Service
Arab Spring , Beirut , Democracy , Egypt , Facebook , Lebanon , Nada Akl , Oxfam , Palestinian Territories , Social networking , Tunisia , Women , Women's issues , Yemen
NADA AKL, CGNEWS: Women have played a key role in the Arab Spring but they have to continue to fight to have their views heard.
Added on 18/10/2012
Common Ground News Service
Actor , Artist , Culture , France , Italy , Lebanon , Morocco , Netherlands , Singer , Sweden , Syria , Tunis , Tunisia
AMINA BENKHLIFA, CGNEWS: Often associated with harsh weather and difficult economic conditions El Kef, my hometown, has a deep theatrical heritage
Added on 17/10/2012
James M. Dorsey
2014 World Cup , Abdullah Saleh , Ali Kafashian , Ali Khamenei , American government , Asian Football Confederation , Ben Ali , Egypt , FIFA , Germany , Hosni Mubarak , Iran , Islamic Republic of Iran , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Nasser Hejazi , President , Saudi Arabia , Sepp Blatter , SMS , Soccer , South Korea , Tehran , Tehran’s Azadi Stadium , Tunisia , United Nations , United States , Yemen
JAMES M. DORSEY: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is following in the footsteps of deposed autocrats by associating himself with one of Iran’s greatest passions: soccer.
Added on 07/10/2012
Common Ground News Service
Ben Ali , Civil society , Constituent Assembly , Democracy , President , Tunisia
AKREM KAABI, CGNEWS: There are significant threats to democracy and to hard won freedoms but huge progress has been made.
Added on 04/10/2012
Common Ground News Service
Activist , Civil society , Facebook , Tunisia
INES ZGUIDANE, CGNEWS: A new sense of civic engagement has taken root in Tunisia with individuals working together to deal with major societal issues
Added on 28/09/2012
Common Ground News Service
Algeria , Civil society , Common Ground News Service , Democracy , Mediterranean , Search for Common Ground , Tunis , Tunisia , Youth
NOUR AWAISS, CGNEWS: So prominent in the protests that swept over the country last year Tunisia’s young people seem to be absent from public discourse now
