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In this timely interview with Ziad Abu-Rish, VOMENA's Shahram Aghamir asks about Lebanon's economic crisis, it's worst in decades. Part 1 features discussion on the roots of the economic crisis and its connection to developmental failures. Part 2 centers on the protest movement and the implicati..

From Hong Kong to Chile, from Lebanon to India and beyond, protest seems to be the new normal. Yet we are also living through the rise of authoritarian populism and right-wing parties worldwide. How do we make sense of this apparent paradox and understand these global developments?

Shahram Aghamir spoke with Peyman Jafari, a historian at Princeton University about the latest wave of protests in Iran.

In light of the government’s decision on 17 October 2019, to increase taxes and impose a fee on WhatsApp, protests broke across the country in an unprecedented way.

 مقابلة مع المدربة والناشطة المصرية في مجال حقوق الإنسان علا شهبه عن سنوات عديدة من العمل الهام الذي حققته حملة العمل والمنظمة المدنية المعروفة باسم الحرية للشجعان. 

Thursday, 29 October 6 - 8 pm  

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[On 22 August 2015, what had in previous weeks been a small protest against the breakdown in garbage collection in Beirut turned into a major anti-corruption demonstration calling for fundamental political and economic change in Lebanon. The protesters have been met with escalating repressiv..

Maha Abdelrahman, Egypt`s Long Revolution: Protest Movements and Uprisings. London and New York: Routledge, 2014.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?

Maha Abdelrahma..

The recently concluded winter storm recovery efforts provided the Jordanian regime with a welcome respite from the array of issues that currently occupy center stage in public debates. These include—but are not limited to—the Syrian refugee c..

[The following statement was issued by Physicians for Human Rights on 14 February 2013.] 

Two years after political protests first erupted ..

On Monday, 17 December, during a mass protest in Bahrain, twenty-five people were arrested, among them prominent human rights activist Yousef al-Muhafedha, who is the acting head of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights.

17 December is recognized unofficiall..

On the one-year anniversary of the February 20 protest movement in Morocco, (henceforth referred to as Feb. 20), the kingdom boasts relatively meager political progress. Despite the much-vaunted reforms and constitutional changes, Morocco has reinvigorated its state edifice, managed to outmaneuv..