Besides their nonviolence, to which the entire world bore witness, these protests were mainly characterised as most wide-ranging, geographically speaking. Citizens of every region protested in the streets, or at least expressed their desire for change. The middle and upper classes were practically the force behind those protests
Here is the introduction to the second thematic folder that Assafir al-Arabi has devoted to studying the 2019 uprisings. Its texts come from Iraq, Sudan, Algeria and Lebanon - where the 2019 uprisings took place. They expose how and why the manifold creativity in which has revealed itself in various fields in the context of these uprisings, can indeed be considered “constitutive”, indicating changes that have and continue to occur.
Sudan has lived through two popular unrests before, which managed to overthrow two military regimes in 1964 and 1985. However, the most recent was characterised by three major phenomena: that...
All throughout 2020, Assafir al Arabi conducted a study on corruption as one of the pillars of power, just as important as repression, impoverishment, and despair. For such exercise, we...
Women’s fate is often interlinked with wars; they pay its highest prices; face all forms of social, political, and economic violence; and their stories, when later told, are most marginalised....
In many countries, refugees are more vulnerable than others to sexual violence and other crimes, since they are perceived as outsiders and defenceless targets. This vulnerability is aggravated by their...
Neither on October 17th, the day protests broke out in Lebanon, nor August 4th, when the horrific explosion hit Beirut’s port, did any official come out to explain or even...
As soon as the protests took off, thousands of young people gathered in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, echoing countless concerns and questions. The desperate, the unemployed, the infuriated with families...
Stories of the “Border Burners” (Harraga)
