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November 2025

How Climate Summits Are Emptied of Their Substance

How Climate Summits Are Emptied of Their Substance: A Reading of Capital Domination and Conflicting Interests On the remote island of Tuvalu in the South Pacific, a man stands on a shoreline that erodes with each passing day, watching as..

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November 2025

Seeds as Instrument of Domination: The Erosion of Sovereignty in Egyptian Agriculture

Introduction At the heart of food sovereignty debate, no issue captures the challenge more vividly than that of seeds. This is far from a mere technical detail or basic production input—it lies at the core of a deeper conflict between..

Research
October 2025

Will US tariffs spur pan-Arab economic integration? 

As the global economic system undergoes accelerated and tumultuous changes in 2025,the US administration’s imposition of draconian tariffs on Chinese imports during Donald Trump’s second term in office is a stark expression of the strong-arm tactics driving US trade policy..

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October 2025

How has the political role of the revolutionary forces in Sudan diminished?

In the early weeks of the war that erupted in Khartoum on April 15, controversy has raged over the causes of this devastating conflict between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). While a large segment of the “December..

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October 2025

From State Monopoly to Commons: Seed Sovereignty in Iraq and Syria

This contribution explores how farmers and activists in Iraq and Syria have responded to the collapse of formal seed institutions. In this context, seeds emerge as infrastructures of survival, resistance, and alternative political imaginaries. The Political Nature of Seed Systems..

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October 2025

Morocco’s “GenZ212” Struggles

Morocco’s “GenZ212” Struggles: Fighting for Development and Against the Legacy of Neoliberal Policies Since September 27, 2025, Morocco has been witnessing large-scale, ongoing youth protests under the banner “GenZ212.” The movement calls for better social policies, particularly in healthcare and..

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October 2025

From Hospital Outrage to a Digitally-enabled Protest Movement: GenZ212’s Emergence and Organization

On September 27, 2025, protests erupted across Morocco after reports emerged that eight women had died in childbirth at Agadir’s Hassan II hospital. What began as outrage over a public health scandal quickly crystallized broader anger about failing social services,..

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September 2025

How U.S. Monetary Policy Sustains Imperial Power and Drives Class Struggle

How U.S. Monetary Policy Sustains Imperial Power and Drives Class Struggle A Critical Analysis of the Trump–Powell Standoff and Fed Hegemony Introduction: The Trump-Powell Standoff as a Window into Systemic Conflict The publicly heated disputes between U.S. President Donald Trump..

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September 2025

Egypt’s Workers, Back on the Front Line?

In the second week of September, a two-day strike and plant-gate sit-in at The Nile Linen Group in Alexandria forced management and officials from the Labor Ministry to concede to a package of demands after an infant died in her..

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September 2025

Seeds of Dependency: The Silent War on Food Sovereignty in Tunisia

On his small farm in the region of Zaghouan, a 70-year-old farmer stands before a wooden box inherited from his father. The box holds small cloth bags, each containing seeds of crops that have been cultivated for decades on the..

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September 2025

On the late Ziad Rahbani : “I consider nothing human alien to me”

Moroccan theorist and author Bensalem Himmich opened his best-known intellectual treatise, A Critique of the Need for Marx, by quoting a form Marx himself filled out in the 1860s, thus conveying to us an image of Marx, “Ecce Homo.” In..

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September 2025

Religion and Morals in Sisi’s New Republic

Over the past weeks, Egyptian authorities renewed their crackdown on TikTok content creators and social media influencers. The police have already carried out dozens of arrests, including that of a student in Sharqiyya accused of making ‘offensive’ comments online, and..