Tahrir Square, then and now.
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In the ten years since the Arab Spring, the countries affected have transformed completely. Here’s how.
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Looking at his brilliant career is looking into Algeria’s relationship with its history and identity, but also questioning what it means to be exiled.
Examining the fossilised teeth of dinosaur species like Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus can reveal clues about their diets and place on the food chain.
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Teeth can reveal a lot about diversity when they are reasonably well-preserved.
Militants prepare their ammunition in April 2019 before joining frontline to defend Tripoli against Khalifa Haftar’s forces.
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With dozens of international players meddling in Libya, nobody wants to see their side weakened.
Morocco reformed its family law in 2004 to increase the legal age of marriage to 18.
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The region has made progress but efforts must continue to end a harmful practice rooted in poverty and tradition.
Kais Saied, Tunisia’s new president.
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Parts of Tunisia’s political discourse look a lot like its colonial past.
Evidence suggests that Muslim men in France have been disproportionately arrested and jailed for cannabis-related crimes since the drug became illegal in 1970.
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Muslims make up 9% of France’s population and half of all its prisoners – many convicted on drug charges. But social justice isn’t part of the country’s growing debate on legalization.
Funeral prayers were said for Mohamed Morsi in Istanbul Turkey, after his death in mid June.
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The Muslim Brotherhood has been slow to adapt to its new reality.
Morsi on trial in 2016.
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An obituary of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, who died in court in Cairo.
Jewish visitors light candles at the ancient Ghriba synagogue in May 2019.
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The annual Jewish pilgrimage of the Ghriba to the island of Djerba used to attract tens of thousands of people. After numbers dwindled in recent years, the 2019 event saw a big increase in visitors.
Indonesian students pay tribute to the victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings.
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Some Muslims hide their identity, pretending to be less devout than they actually are, in a bid to deflect Islamophobia.
Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir has resigned after three decades in power.
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Sudanese protesters against al-Bashir’s regime have scored an important victory. But there’s a long way to go before democracy is restored.
Celebrations on the street in Algiers on March 11, after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced he wouldn’t run for a fifth term.
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Young Algerians who dream of accessing global markets have extensively used iconic brands, films and series as political resources.
The Algerian population has taken to the streets in a peaceful and nonviolent manner to protest against President Bouteflika’s running for a fifth term of office.
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Demonstrations against Abdelaziz Bouteflika have opened up a rare space for debate and self-expression – and could signal a change to a more free and involved civil society in Algeria.
A water reservoir in the Louga region of Northern Senegal
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A combination of reasons have led to the drying of the Sahel.
A policeman holds a flower at the site of a bomb attack on a bus transporting Tunisian presidential guards November 25, 2015.
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A recent attack at the heart of the Tunisian capital highlights how regional security is on the precipice.
Women hold signs as they take part in a demonstration against government plans to ban or limit the practice of abortion in Turkey on 22 June 2012, in Istanbul.
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Abortion appears to be illegal and clandestine in large parts of the Muslim world. Yet, women continue to challenge the status quo and archaic laws through their daily practices and activism.
Frantz Fanon lectured about fundamental resistance at the University of Tunis in 1959 and 1960.
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Fanon found in Algeria that what the colonial law courts considered a failure of integration by mental patients was in fact an elemental resistance to European rule.
Frantz Fanon challenged traditional views about mental illness.
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Frantz Fanon recognised mental illness as a real experience and offered an understanding of it being influenced by society and culture.
Morocco’s World Cup squad training in St.Petersburg, Russia.
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The football world cup offers a useful chance to consider the apparent division between North and sub-Saharan Africa.