The Eastern and Western Egyptian Borders: “All is Allowed! Anything Goes!”

The article attempts to map the smuggling activities across the Egyptian borders, in all their different directions, routes, aspects and structure. It considers the geographic, social, political and economic morphologies...

Critical Views on the Informal Economy in Algeria: Eradication or Integration?

Several attempts have been made to legalize the informal economy in Algeria through facilitating the integration of unregulated workers in the formal economy. However, success is yet to be achieved.

Parallel Economy in Tunisia: Is it Really “Parallel”?

The term “parallel” becomes meaningless in some Tunisian regions. It is even cause for ridicule where formal economy itself has become “parallel”!

Recognising Indigeneity, Erasing Palestine

What did the widespread recognition of the Palestinian Bedouin of the Naqab as “indigenous people” under international law mean?

Parallel Economy: A Counter-Society or a mode of Governance?

When the freedom of transactions is restricted in the market, an informal economy necessarily arises. This is inherent to capitalism. The key issue relies in finding out who benefits from...

Inheriting Major Defeats: What is Behind the Internal and External Displacement of Syrians?

Land Day, a reminder of what is at stake in Palestine

42 years apart, both Land Day in Israel and the Great March in Gaza were protests against the very fundamentals of Zionist settler-colonialism or any settler-colonialism for that end as...

United Nation’s CHR recent report: In Gaza, there were war crimes and crimes against Humanity

“Clients” in Syria and Egypt: how economic openness keeps authoritarian elites in power