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August 6, 2021: What’s goin on in Tunisia? The pandemic and the economic and political crisis in Tunisia

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Since the 2011 revolutions, Tunisia has been seen as the most successful democracy in the Arab world. But at the moment it tethering at the edge of what some people call have called a constitutional coup. Here is what happened, on July 25th, after a day of protest over the government’s handling of the covid-19 … Continued

Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

August 4, 2021: Israeli Settler Colonialism and Urban Planning inside the 1948 Occupied Territories with Lama Shehadeh

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When the Palestinian Nakba (or the catastrophe of 1948) is discussed it’s commonly understood to refer to the destruction of villages and the displacement of about 700 thousand Palestinians. What gets left out is what happened to the people who remained in the borders of what became Israel and the transformations the new state created … Continued