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November | 2014 | Mercurius Maghrebensis
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The Arab Spring & Youth. A personal view of Maghrib and Mashriq. Month: November, 2014. November 30, 2014. More thoughts on Abu Faraj. When I can wrench my mind away from the absurd notion of the Leader as jihadist, I find a more realistic cross-reference in Pierre Poujade, the French politician of the mid twentieth century. Poujade, a one-time RAF pilot, commercial traveller, Pétainiste,. S 2003 obituary for Poujade has interesting resonances:. November 30, 2014. Peter Pan with a Machine-gun. How does i...
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The Arab Spring & Youth | Mercurius Maghrebensis
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The Arab Spring & Youth. A personal view of Maghrib and Mashriq. The Arab Spring & Youth. Is the text of a lecture delivered to the World Forum of Public Universities, in Rabat, on 22nd November 2012. THE ARAB SPRING AND YOUNG PEOPLE. Heaven above us, Hell beneath. In a literal sense, the Arab Spring began on December 17. 8211; of the local authorities. Just as significant, though, is the reason why. Bouazizi stands for the revolutions themselves but also for the demographic, social and political movemen...
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Breaking things for spite, north of Baldock | Mercurius Maghrebensis
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The Arab Spring & Youth. A personal view of Maghrib and Mashriq. Breaking things for spite, north of Baldock. The uncompromising puritanism and relentless logic of uber-. Named for the Baghdadi taffeta of which less permanent regal canopies were made. Another Baghdadi taffeta, ‘. Of forgive me the ur-Baghdad). I shall clearly have to refer henceforth to Baghdad as Baldock. April 17, 2015. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Freedom ...
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April | 2015 | Mercurius Maghrebensis
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The Arab Spring & Youth. A personal view of Maghrib and Mashriq. Month: April, 2015. April 19, 2015. Bavures and Shibboleths – language in Morocco. As anyone who follows this blog knows, I am rather preoccupied with the question of language. Both the. Dimension, and the whole question of foreign languages. (And of course the matter of Tamazight.) To dispense with the first, I have little doubt that the very high levels of illiteracy (a recent op-ed in by Abderrahmane Lahlou. Of the last parliament,.
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Syria: eating chocolate in gardening gloves | Mercurius Maghrebensis
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The Arab Spring & Youth. A personal view of Maghrib and Mashriq. Syria: eating chocolate in gardening gloves. Will Iran trade its land-bridge to Hizbollah via Damascus? Will the Assad regime acknowledge stalemate, and what will it do if it does? Will the Saudis even allow the Iranians to the table? But as one of the experts in peace-negotiation and stabilisation said, after much talk of ‘an exhausted stalemate,’ the problem is not so much. Syria: Moving beyond the Stalemate. And ad hoc sharia courts, and...
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A Heavily-armed Mediæval Hyperlink | Mercurius Maghrebensis
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The Arab Spring & Youth. A personal view of Maghrib and Mashriq. A Heavily-armed Mediæval Hyperlink. This fast-moving and complicated scenario needs careful explanation, and it has got it, from Patrick Cockburn, in his excellent new. Rise of the Islamic State: ISIS and the new Sunni Revolution. London Review of Books. This week, Graeme Wood has dissected the chiliastic rhetoric of the Caliphate to great effect. What is clear is that geo-politics isn’t the whole story. It’s easy to see the Daesh a...The r...
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July | 2015 | Mercurius Maghrebensis
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The Arab Spring & Youth. A personal view of Maghrib and Mashriq. Month: July, 2015. July 28, 2015. Tall, Nasty Stories and the Four Pillars of Wisdom. Some people are receptive to it,. Changing conditions encourage its emergence, and. Therefore the bacillus ceases to be a cheerful passenger in the human nose and becomes a killer. On the fascinating parallel drawn by Professor Kate Cooper between the radicalisation of young Muslims today, and the radicalisation of young Christians in late antiquity in bot...
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The Pied Pipers of Fnideq | Mercurius Maghrebensis
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The Arab Spring & Youth. A personal view of Maghrib and Mashriq. The Pied Pipers of Fnideq. 8211; vigilance – patrols of well-armed security personnel (always a policemen and two soldiers, a strutting dactyl in pink epaulettes) patrolling the city and the major roads around it. Recounting the story of this 30-year old woman, originally from Tetouan, who emigrated to Spain in 2000,. Writes that it all started when she turned to the internet to fill a void in her life. On Facebook she made a virtual fr...
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Electronic Sabine Women | Mercurius Maghrebensis
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The Arab Spring & Youth. A personal view of Maghrib and Mashriq. When you are building a state you need women. Without them, the state is bunch of warriors who, however heroic, ferocious and bloody, and however magnificent their whiskers, will eventually get killed, grow old, go home. Without women there can be no state because there is no permanence, no real settlement, no homes, no children. Warriors in male communities like the. Ad-Dawlat al-Islamiya fi-l‘Iraq wa-ash-Shams –. Without a tangible, bragg...
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March | 2015 | Mercurius Maghrebensis
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The Arab Spring & Youth. A personal view of Maghrib and Mashriq. Month: March, 2015. March 17, 2015. When you are building a state you need women. Without them, the state is bunch of warriors who, however heroic, ferocious and bloody, and however magnificent their whiskers, will eventually get killed, grow old, go home. Without women there can be no state because there is no permanence, no real settlement, no homes, no children. Warriors in male communities like the. Without a tangible, braggable state t...
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