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قام معهد الأصفري للمجتمع المدني والمواطنة بتنفيذ مشروع بحثي عن حال النظام الإقليمي العربي ومسارات إصلاح جامعة الدول العربية والقضايا والتحديات التي تعوق فرص الإصلاح المؤسسي والسياسي لهذا الكيان الإقليمي. وقد استمرت أنشطة هذا المشروع لمدة عام ونصف بمنحة من المكتب العربي لمؤسسة المجتمع المفتوح في عمّان

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Shifting Global Politics and the Middle East

In October 2018, POMEPS, Princeton University’s Bobst Center, and the American University of Beirut brought together nearly two dozen scholars from the United States, Europe and the Middle East at AUB to discuss the impact of shifting global structure on regional dynamics. This collection features sixteen essays ranging across diverse perspectives on the evolving relationship between the global and the regional.

Lebanon:
From the 1984 Intifada to the 3rd Republic

Co-Authored by Bachar EL-Halabi: Program officer at Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship

Following the parliamentary election in May 2018 and after 9 months of negotiations, designated Prime Minister Saad Hariri was able to form a government in Lebanon. However, to better understand the process this government took to be formed, we need to understand the transition the Lebanese political power-sharing arrangement has undergone through the years.

Algeria Says ‘Enough!’

In an interview from Algiers, Dalia Ghanem describes protests against a fifth term for Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

The role of the water tankers market in water stressed semi-arid urban areas:
Implications on water quality and economic burden

While water tankers have become an integral part of the water supply system in many countries, the sector is often unregulated and operates with little governmental supervision. Users are invariably unaware of the origin or the quality of purchased water. In an effort to better assess this sector, a field survey of water vending wells and tankers coupled with a water quality sampling and analysis program was implemented in a pilot semi-arid urban area (Beirut, Lebanon) to shed light on the environmental and socio-economic impacts of the water tanker sector.

Continents Still Apart?

This first-ever summit earlier this week in Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt, between the European Union (EU) and the Arab League raised hopes for a new start in cooperation between the two regions. But it’s unlikely that a stronger, more substantive partnership between Europe and the Arab world will emerge in the summit’s wake.

Hosni Mubarak Was Overthrown Eight Years Ago.
Should Egypt Miss Him?

By Dr Dina Elkhawaga: Research associate and director of Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship

With time the public anger that translated into protests that led to Mubarak’s ouster has faded away, to be replaced by new types of frustrations. Nowadays, Egyptians miss Mubarak because the country finds itself in a much direr situation than the one in 2011.

The New Mobilization Dynamics of Sudan’s Popular Uprising: The Virtue of Learning from the Past

Despite the Sudanese government’s frequent pronouncements that the protests are relatively small and are having little impact on the regime, or that the demonstrations are essentially sponsored by saboteurs, thugs or “foreign elements,” the popular intifada has not only produced significant policy changes on the part of the regime, it has clearly undermined the rule of Omar al-Bashir in ways that have threatened to topple his thirty-year authoritarian rule.

New Urban Worlds:
Inhabiting Dissonant Times
AbdouMaliq Simone, Edgar Pieterse

The book provides a number of situated orientations to facilitate engagement with the contemporary urban paradox. These are invitations, illustrated through a number of encounters with cities scattered across Africa and Asia, to look for secretions, or permeation of life; resonances, or pre-conscious affective capacities; signposts, or signs of everyday governance; and other mundane infrastructures of urban life

مرحلة الأفول

على ضوء التحوّلات الكبرى التي يعيشها العالم العربي اليوم، يُعتبر احترام التنوّع أمراً أساسياً لتطوير مجتمعات تنعم بالاستقرار والتعددية. فالتنوّع الديني عنصر أساسي لبناء ذلك الاحترام والحفاظ عليه. ومن شأن غيابه أن يتسبب بتداعيات وخيمة ليس على المسيحيين العرب وحسب، إنما أيضاً على الثقافة العربية عموماً

أهمية إقرار قانون يكفل حقّ النساء اللبنانيات بمنح الجنسية لأُسرهنّ

يخضع القانون اللبناني لحزمة من التشريعات التي لا تزال تتعارض مع إلتزامات لبنان تجاه قضايا حقوق الإنسان. ولعلّ أبرز المتضرّرين من هذه التشريعات هنّ النساء كمكوّن إجتماعي، تنظر إليه قوانين كثيرة بعين التحيّز، والإقصاء والتمييز

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Book Launch - For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers
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إطلاق ماجستير "السياسات الثقافية والإدارة الثقافية" في المغرب

أعلنت مؤسسة المورد الثقافي وكلية الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية بنمسيك، جامعة الحسن الثاني بالدار البيضاء في المغرب، عن افتتاح مقرر ماجستير "السياسات الثقافية والإدارة الثقافية" ابتداءً من السنة الجامعية 2018-2019