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COVID-19 Tests the Limits of Arab-State Society Relations

COVID-19 has hit many parts of the Arab world in the context of spreading into the Global South. This might be the right time to rethink many of the assumptions once garnered about state-society relations in the Arab world in the light of the spread of the pandemic...

Corona’s Storm in Algeria: Only the Beginning

Zine Labidine Ghebouli On 22 February 2019, millions of Algerians flooded the streets to demand radical political change. This unprecedented political movement managed to topple the long-ruling president Abdelaziz Bouteflika on April 2nd. However, Algerians’ struggle...