by PPJC Admin2 | May 11, 2016 | Videos
An Interview with Joel Beinin Donald J. MacLachlan Professor of Middle East History, Stanford University PART 2: “WORKERS” PART 1: “THIEVES” About “Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt” by Joel Beinin...
by TD Daniell | October 20, 2015 | Current News
Rebecca Gordon TomDispatch This year’s Nobel Peace Prize went to Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet “for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy… in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.” The Quartet is...
by TD Daniell | April 21, 2015 | Current News
Stephen Zunes Foreign Policy In Focus As a Saudi-led military coalition continues to pound rebel targets in Yemen, the country is plunging into a humanitarian crisis. Civilian casualties are mounting. With U.S. logistical support, the Saudis are attempting to...
by TD Daniell | October 29, 2014 | Current News
Paul Pillar Consortium News Look across North Africa, and at three adjacent countries in particular, and one can see the best and some of the worst of what the Arab Spring has produced so far. Comparing the experiences of the three countries is a lesson in what helps...
by PPJC Admin2 | October 21, 2013 | PPJC Picks
by Christopher M. Davidson New York Times THIS summer, disgruntled Saudis took their grievances online in droves, complaining of ever-growing inequality, rising poverty, corruption and unemployment. Their Twitter campaign became one of the world’s highest trending...
