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  • 30 Dec 2012
    Reviewing the 'Arab awakening' in 2012

    To start 2013, I will be taking part in a special broadcast looking at the sweep of change across the Middle East and North Africa in 2012. The details are as follows.

  • 15 Dec 2012
    Change and challenge across the Middle East and North Africa Region
  • 21 Feb 2012
    Where is the Middle East and North Africa region today?
  • 1 Feb 2012
    A new Egypt for all Egyptians?

    In viewing the first anniversary of the 25 January 2011 Revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak and set forth many changes that would have simply been unthinkable twelve months ago in Egypt, we should bear in mind that the deep socio-economic and technological structures of civilisations play out over long periods of time, says Dr Harry Hagopian. Here he offers a perspective on the development and prospects of those recent events in Egypt, and responses to them.

  • 29 Jan 2012
    Christian local voice challenges the transformations in the Arab World

    A Christian-Muslim consultation on the Christian presence and witness in the Middle East took place at the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia in Antelias, Lebanon, from 24-28 January 2012.

  • 28 Jan 2012
    New year, new direction in the Middle East?

    Can we expect 2012 to be as monumentally eventful in the Middle East as 2011? Perhaps even more so.

  • 28 Jan 2012
    Religious leaders reflect on Christian presence across the Arab world

    The World Council of Churches' General Secretary says a common vision for living together is needed by Christians and Muslims in the Arab world.

  • 15 Jan 2012
    A changing Middle East and North Africa: annual overview

    It has been a momentous twelve months in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and in relation to developments popularly dubbed the 'Arab Spring' or (perhaps more helpfully) the 'Arab Awakening'. Time, we think, to stop for a moment and take stock.

  • 14 Jan 2012
    The 'Arab spring' in historical perspective

    How will the popular uprisings in the Arab world affect the future of states and regimes in the region? All possible outcomes are shadowed by the fate of the contending ideologies and movements - nationalism and socialism, secularism and Islamism, dynasticism and liberal constitutionalism - that have dominated the Arab political landscape in recent decades, says Sami Zubaida. His overview of their rise and fall both illuminates a complex history and indicates the scale of the challenge facing democratic reformers today.

  • 12 Jan 2012
    From Vietnam to Palestine: A crime of silence?

    Palestine remains politically inert despite the artificial fireworks of a UN application for statehood or membership of UNESCO, observes Dr Harry Hagopian. So why is Palestine faced with such a thunderous crime of silence? After all, over the past year, we have been witnessing popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa region. Where is the disconnect here?