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15 December, 2022 • Iason Athanasiadis

The Greek Panopticon, Where Politicians Spy on Democracy

Senior correspondent Iason Athanasiadis attends a protest and critiques Greek government corruption.

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1 August, 2022 • Farah Abdessamad

Poem for Tunisia: “Court of Nothing”

Farah Abdessamad responds to Tunisia's July 25 constitutional referendum with a poem for her country.

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25 April, 2022 • Rana Salman, Yonatan Gher

Palestinians and Israelis Will Commemorate the Nakba Together

The co-directors of Combatants for Peace, ex-Palestinian and Israeli fighters, invite readers to attend on May 15th.

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21 March, 2022 • Sarah Ben Hamadi

“Ghodwa” or the Bitter Taste of the Unfinished Tunisian Revolution

Sarah Ben Hamadi reviews a new Tunisian feature film that weighs the successes and failures of the revolution.

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27 December, 2021 • Lorraine Ali

The US Democracy Crisis is a Media Crisis and the Mainstream Press is Losing

Columnist Lorraine Ali remembers 2021 as the year of the January 6 insurrection, the Covid-19 pandemic and the debacle of Omicron and the Republicans.

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1 August, 2021 • Iason Athanasiadis

Revolution, Democracy and the Tunisian Exception

Our correspondent in Tunis looks at President Kaïs Saïed’s un-democratic attempts to save Tunisia from collapse.

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15 October, 2020 • TMR

Why “The Red and the Blue”?

What is an arts publication doing writing about "The Red and the Blue"—colors symbolic of the divisions of a troubled nation?

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