Public disgust over corruption threatens stability in Middle East and North Africa
Protests in Tunisia and Morocco show underlying causes of the Arab uprisings remain intact.
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Why jobs in special economic zones won’t solve the problems facing the world’s refugees
Employing Syrian refugees is not the same as protecting them.
Africa needs to manage food, water and energy in a way that connects all three
Understanding the connections between basic food demands and accessibility to water and energy is important when it comes to climate change and its impact on agriculture and livelihoods.
Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon face an uncertain 2017
With the many interconnected conflicts within Syria continuing, and with routes to safety increasingly blocked, what can Syria's 4.8m refugees expect in this ‘new’ year?
Scientists at work: meeting the Syrian refugee women of Beirut
A PhD candidate retells the moving stories of Syrian women, as they try to find a place in their new neighbourhoods.
Depressed by football greed? Find hope in how the game welcomes refugees
The beautiful game has never seemed uglier. But it also can bring joy and togetherness, even to the most desperate.
How to help refugee children get through the trauma of what’s happened to them
It's not just children who need support to cope, their families and caregivers do, too.
‘Should the U.S. take in more or fewer Syrian refugees?’
Our collaboration with Point Taken, a new program from WGBH TV continues this week on the topic of Syrian refugees.
Where have 4.8 million Syrian refugees gone?
As part of a collaboration between The Conversation and PBS's Point Taken, a professor from The Ohio State University examines some common misconceptions about Syrian refugees.
Five years after the Arab Spring, how does the Middle East use social media?
As usage continues to grow in the region, what's the ongoing dynamic between the Middle East and social media? It's complicated.
Meltdowns, crises and Islamic State: a terrible year in the Middle East
Syria and IS may have dominated the news this year, but the Middle East has plenty of other problems on its hands.
Rethinking refugee camps: turning boredom into innovation
Away from the chaos of Europe's borders, refugees are camped out in vast settlements close to their home countries and where restrictions on entrepreneurship are wasting talent and energy.
Jordan and ISIS: will the brutal murder of a fighter pilot change hearts and minds?
Thousands of Jordanians - including the country’s Queen Rania - took to the streets of the capital Amman February 6. They were protesting the burning alive of the Jordanian fighter pilot Moaz al-Kasabeh…
The international media is failing to report the Syrian war properly
February 2015 has already seen some major developments in Syria’s four-year conflict. At the start of February, rebels launched more than 100 rockets into Damascus and the Assad regime fired mortars on…
How to read the medieval scholar the Islamic State used to justify al-Kasasbeh murder
The killing of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh by Islamic State has been explained as an act of retaliation for the air campaign against it. But there have been many questions about whether immolation…
Islamic State gore-fest appeals to voyeuristic streak in society
The latest atrocity committed by Islamic State – the burning to death of a captured Jordanian pilot – has dutifully been…
Jordanian pilot execution shows how dangerous combat with Islamic State really is
The execution of the Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh by Islamic State was both horrific and barbarous – and part of a well-calculated strategy. By killing this young man in this manner, and with maximum…
Prisoners and politics: Islamic State, Jordan and tribal power
When a coalition of the willing was formed in September 2014 and bombing began against Daesh in Iraq and Syria, things appeared to be moving in the right direction. Daesh is more commonly known as Islamic…
What Arab partners will get in return for strikes on Syria
The decision by President Obama to launch missile and air strikes against Islamic State (IS) and the al-Qaeda affiliate “Khorasan” in Syria draws the United States ever closer to yet another prolonged…
Jordan has become the West’s warehouse for Iraqi refugees
Swamped as we are with media outrage and political rhetoric about asylum seekers “invading” Europe, we tend to forget that the vast majority of displaced people find refuge in countries far beyond EU borders…
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