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The interview: Mohamad Hafez
The interview: Mohamad Hafez 25 October 2022 The Syrian-American architect and visual artist sits down with Louisa Waugh to discuss the power of nostalgia – and how his lifelong homesickness for Syria shapes his work. You were born in Damascus, then spent much of your childhood in Saudi Arabia before moving back to Syria as a teenager. What was it like growing up in such different landscapes?
[Opinion] Why EU's increased militarisation should worry us all
Preparing for a long war of attrition, European states are ramping up their own defence 'capacities' and expanding arms exports. This is a paradigm shift in European military thinking on violent crises and conflicts. The confirms this with its militarised 'security first' approach, with EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy Josep Borrell calling for interoperable European armed forces.
Alternative combat
2 July 2021 Louisa Waugh speaks to activists in Israel and Palestine working together in the name of peace. Credit: Mohammed Zaanoun Tuly is late for our call and when he does join us, is slightly out of breath. He has just rushed home after visiting his parents. ‘I hadn’t seen them for 18 months because of Covid and it was my mother’s birthday yesterday,’ he says. ‘Ah, you saw your mother,’ exclaims Rana. ‘Happy birthday to her!’ The remarkable thing about this exchange is how ordinary it sounds.
Publishing the Trial of Hissène Habré
Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books.
[Opinion] Von der Leyen's Greek 'shield' will not work
If the ceasefire signed last week between Turkey and Russia continues to hold, it is a real chance to stop the bloodshed in Idlib that has already forced thousands of Syrians to flee their homes. It could also be an opportunity for the EU to step up its involvement in reaching a robust political solution to the Syrian conflict. But this will not change the situation for the at least 35,000 people currently stranded in a no-mans-land between the Turkish, Greek and Bulgarian borders.
Nigeria: The Risks of a Coup or Civil War - Exclusive Analysis Ltd
Babangida and Gusau – Nigerian political elite with high-stakes in oil smuggling The country risk score for Nigeria on Exclusive Analysis’s Foresight Country Risk Platform is now 4.3, which is in the Severe Risk Band. Only the country risk scores for Somalia and Sudan are higher in the sub-Saharan African region. President Jonathan’s April 2011 electoral victory and policy agenda has widened north-south divisions both nationally and within the ruling party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The ambassador of joy
While Bangui was full of armed rebels, Tatiana rescued girls and young women who had nowhere else to go. © Conciliation Resources I remember hearing Tatiana before I first saw her: a great peal of dirty laughter erupting from inside her office, as she threw the door open and stood, beaming, before us. It was spring 2014. I had just taken up a post in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic (CAR). A new colleague had insisted I meet Tatiana, so we had swung by her office.
How not to build peace: what's been missing from the UN process
The last time I met Sultan Ibrahim Senoussi, he was at home in the town of N’délé, sitting beneath his favourite tree, holding court from his armchair. Waiting my turn to speak, I noticed a book on his lap and surreptitiously read the title upside-down. After we exchanged greetings, I asked why he was learning English. ‘Because of the peacekeepers!’ The sultan waved his book. ‘Those Pakistanis don’t speak French.
Sam Pa is detained! Long Live Sam Pa!
The mysterious Chinese tycoon has finally been arrested. But unless the shady global networks he exploited to make his riches are dismantled, other individuals will simply take his place. Sam Pa at a Chinese military training event at Yinchuan University.
In Paul Malong's Kingdom: Politics on South Sudan's Periphery – by James Copnall - African Arguments
To his numerous supporters, Paul Malong, the chief of staff of the SPLA, is known as King Paul. He is lionized for his strategic military brain, and his ferocious determination to conquer back all the territory in the hands of Riek Machar’s rebels. Malong’s detractors – and there are many – are mainly silent, at least in public. The man has a reputation for ruthlessness. Until he took command of the SPLA, in April last year, Malong was the governor of Northern Bahr el Ghazal.
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