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How the United States Can—and Should—Continue to Support Tunisia

Washington may be tempted to give up after Tunis’s democratic backsliding, but instead it should use targeted actions that have worked in other countries.

· May 4, 2023
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Against the Odds: Women Entrepreneurs in Algeria

Women are underrepresented in Algeria's business sector. While the state has launched several initiatives to help, more needs to be done to combat misogynistic ideas about women's roles and the institutionalized discrimination to which they have given rise.

· April 8, 2022
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Algeria: War against women

While the Algerian state, like many others in the region, debates human security and the protection of the most vulnerable, it is this very same state that put women and children at risk.

· February 8, 2021
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An Obsession With Independence

The response to Lebanon’s protest movement in Zahleh showed sympathy, but within a conservative framework.

  • Farès Sassine
· September 14, 2020
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We’re Carrying On

Protest actions in Sidon since October 2019 have continued, despite multiple efforts to repress them.

  • Miryam Swaidan
· September 7, 2020
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Lebanon After the Explosion
August 11, 2020

A massive explosion in Beirut killed more than one hundred, wounded thousands, and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Now Lebanon finds itself in a severe political, economic, and humanitarian crisis. How can the people of Beirut rebuild their lives while still sheltering from a global pandemic?

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