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December 2024

Desalination Projects in Tunisia: Fresh Water at What Cost?

Introduction: A Nation Running Dry   Pressure to find sustainable solutions  is mounting in Tunisia, where the average annual water consumption per person has dropped to its lowest rate. One of the country’s most ambitious responses is the construction of..

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December 2024

Sisi’s Weakness Makes Him More Brutal

Sisi’s Weakness Makes Him More Brutal Robert Springborg on how the Egyptian dictator secures his violent rule   Since taking power in 2013, Egyptian president and military dictator Abd el-Fattah el-Sisi has presided over a massive expansion of the security..

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December 2024

From colonization to Schengenisation

From colonization to Schengenisation: Socio-history of migrations from the Maghreb to Europe Introduction   In studying the postcolonial shift which, a few decades after the independence of the countries of the southern Mediterranean, gave rise to the emergence of the..

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December 2024

Egypt’s War on Migrants

  While authorities continue with their mass deportations to Sudan, a new asylum law could set a precedent in North Africa Egypt is currently pressing ahead with the adoption of an asylum law. Although it is unclear whether it will..

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September 2024

The Atlas of Disarmament

Peacemaking victories were always hard-won. We were reminded of this by UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the Geneva Conference on Disarmament in February 2024. The victories were not miracles either. Guterres went on to say they were achieved because the..

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August 2024

The Dark Side of Tunisia’s Phosphate Boom

As Kais Saied’s government tries to capitalize on demand for a critical mineral, the country’s environment and Gafsa Valley residents are suffering.   REDEYEF, Tunisia—In Tunisia’s Gafsa Valley, the desert takes on a different guise. Rather than the picturesque dunes..

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July 2024

Investigation into Tunisian female textile workers: the rejects of Fast fashion

  85% of textile workers in the Monastir region are women. These are the little hands of Fast fashion, whose working conditions are among the most arduous, if not the most inhumane, in the world of subcontracting in Tunisia. The..

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July 2024

Egypt’s Carceral Complex

Since taking power, el-Sisi has vastly expanded his country’s network of prisons and detention centres   For over a month now, hundreds of prisoners in Egypt’s notorious Badr 1 Prison, around 70 kilometres northeast of Cairo, have been staging a..

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July 2024

Visa policies and the traumas of immobility

Visa policies and the traumas of immobility                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Translated by Roots prod ( translated from French to English : Borhen Hallek) Editorial design and illustration :Yessine Ouerghemmi   Man is born free. This assertion is common not only to modern..

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June 2024

Colonization, immigration, and borderization: Contemporary perspectives of the Moroccan and Tunisian left

This article aims to analyze the main discourse of political actors in the Tunisian and Moroccan left in regard to the migration issue. The evolution of this discourse will be examined between two key periods of immigration history from these..

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June 2024

The Nador-Melilla border trap

THE NADOR-MELILLA BORDER TRAP– A counter-investigation into the racist massacre of 24 June 2022 Border Forensics, in collaboration with Irídia-Centre for the Defense of Human Rights and AMDH-Moroccan Association for Human Rights

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June 2024

From Mediator to Plaintiff What is behind Egypt’s decision to join the South African ICJ case?

As Israel proceeded with its military operation in Rafah, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry suddenly announced on 12 May its “intention to officially intervene in support of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice”. The move was..