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Leila Toubel is a Tunisian actress and playwright whose plays include Solwen (2015), Huriya..

On Monday, 18 July Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani and Monica Marks discussed the 25 July constitutional referendum in Tunisia. This episode of Connections examines the motives and objectives behind the referendum called by President Kais Saied, and the respo..

Join us on Monday, 18 July for a discussion about the 25 July constitutional referendum in Tunisia with Monica Marks. This episode of Connections will examine the motives and objectives behind the referendum called by P..

All constitutions are flawed, even (or especially) those that are treated as particularly sacrosanct—such as the US Constitution. The recent protest movement in Lebanon, which began on 17 October 2019, has generated renewed interest in the Lebanese constitution—with a lot of what might be called..

The Constitutional Court has ruled that the penalization of Academics for Peace on the charge of “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” has violated their freedom of expression.

This book seeks to centralize the role of law in the Arab Spring, and to centralize Arab Spring to major legal and constitutional debates. While much has been written about the political and economic aspects of the Arab Spring, the role of law remains understudied and insufficiently theori..

Mazen Masri, The Dynamics of Exclusionary Constitutionalism:

[The following press release was issued by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) on 25 May 2017]

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Büyük gün yakın. Önümüzdeki Pazar günü Türkiye hükümetinin yapısını baştan aşağı değiştirecek olan anayasa referandumu oylanacak. Önerilen 18 maddeden oluşan bu referandumun esas hedefi y..

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The day is near. This coming Sunday, 16 April 2017, citizens of Turkey will make their way to the polls to vote on a constitutional referendum that will inexorably alter the Turkish government. The referendum, which consists of eighteen proposed ame..

In a matter of days this past month, the Jordanian legislature moved rapidly to substantially concentrate official government power in the institution of the monarch. The cabinet introduced a set of constitutional amendments on 18 April 2016. On 27 April and 2 May, the lower and upper house..

The mood was tense as the election results came in to the local office of the progressive People’s Democratic Party (HDP) in the town of Erzurum in eastern Turkey. This is a very conservative region on the invisible border between nationalist Turkish Anatolia and the Kurdish region. The HDP’s of..

The School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies cordially invites you to the symposium on:

Law, Politics and Constitution-Making in the Arab Spring

20 March 2015, 15:25-19:00

Khalili Lecture Theatre
SOAS, University of London
Russell Square, Lond..

[The following is an English translation of a memorandum that was issued by a group of concerned Libyan citizens to the Constitutional Drafting Assembly on 20 August 2014 with respect to the right of Libyan women to pass on citizenship to their children. The introduction that precedes the me..

Nimer Sultany, “Religion and Constitutionalism: Lessons from American and Islamic Constitutionalism.” Emory International Law Review Volume 28, Issue 1 (2014).

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Successfully passing the tests of democracy while the whole region seems to be doomed to a chronic state of turmoil, Tunisia is considered to have set a good example for the “Arab Spring” countries and is expected to prove that a happy end..

August 15, 2014

Dr. Phyllis M. Wise
Chancellor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Swanlund Administration Building
601 John Street
Champaign, IL 61820

Dear Dr. Wise:

As scholars of free speech and constitutional law, we write to express alarm at..

Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly (NCA) session held on 26 January 2014 did not put an end to disagreements among its members. However, it did represent the culmination of the work done by members. These members were elected by people on 23 October 2011 to draft the provisions of the Const..

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