The world watched as the bud of the Arab Spring was buried under the cold darkness of the Libyan Winter.

Compares experiences of the Arab Spring for a comprehensive account of how nations handled the challenge of democratic consolidation.

Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery’s wry black comedy

Since 2013, the Middle East has experienced a double trend of chaos and civil war, on the one hand, and the return of authoritarianism, on the other. That conve

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