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Facebook Statuses in the Shadows of Corona (20 )March-20 April

20 March – Full curfew in Jordan as of 7am Saturday. No duration is given but some think it will be eased down in 3-4 days. 22 March – Enjoying the curfew #Corona_in_Amman 29 March – (long note on walking in the shadows of Corona) The air raids’ sirens are blaring out continuously. Loud, ominous. But nobody is running to […]

On UN, Brexit, depression, death, and HOPE: FB posts Feb2020

1 February – I am relieved that Brexit is happening, and that the impeachment saga will be over soon and that self-indulgent politicians in London and Washington could find more amusing issues to squabble about, or, for a change address the destructive and menacing global and national challenges afflicting all of us such as poverty and […]

The Rugged Road: The Emergence, Evolution and Challenges of Human Rights Action in Arab Countries (eBook)

This e-Book was published on December 10, 2019 by the Arab Reform Initiative, edited by Khaled Mansour with an up-to-date introductory chapter. Contents page below with all hyperlinks. Editor: Khaled Mansour

Accountability: One Small Step at a Time!

First Posted at United Against Inhumanity website on 8.10.2019 The plight of civilians in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib became too much to ignore in the middle of 2019 hot summer, even in a world that had become flooded and numbed by mediatised suffering. In late August, U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock told the Security Council that […]

Charity or Right?

In many years at the World Food Programme and UNICEF, I worked with professional and committed leaders who clearly wanted to see our work as #charity and #Humanitarian_aid and not as a fulfillment of rights owed to children and the hungry. They cared most, as good executive bureaucrats do, about getting the job done and growing their organizations in the process. They […]

Dances on quicksand: US and the Arab Spring (3 of 7)

(An earlier version of this piece appeared in Ahramonline on 7.12.2013) It has been a truism for decades to attribute the drivers of US foreign policy in the Middle East to two realist drivers; free flow of oil from the major Gulf producers and Israel’s security, with the latter seen as part of the US […]

Dances on quick sands: US and the Arab Spring (2 of 7)

(This was first published in Ahram online on 30.11.2013) Before we jump into the horse-trading that marked the making of the US foreign policy on the Arab Spring in 2011-2013, it helps to scan and present the chief actors in Washington DC, even if quickly. The authority to formulate the US foreign policy ultimately rests […]

Dances on quick sands: US and the Arab Spring (1 of 7)

(This was first published in Ahram Online on 22 November 2013)I spent a few months this year studying how the US foreign policy machine has been responding to the avalanche of developments in the Middle East since December 2010 when the ostensibly stable region erupted into a turmoil that brought its peoples to the streets […]

In(Securing) Each Other

First published as a book chapter in Indivisible: Global Leaders on Shared Security by Interlink on December 6, 2018

How to Survive Between a Rock and A Hard Place: The Experience of Human Rights Organizations in Egypt

First published by here by Dejusticia in April 2018 as part of their book Rising to the Populist Challenge: A Playbook for Human Rights Actors Summary:Over the period from 2014 to 2017, the Egyptian government cracked down in an unprecedented fury on human rights defenders in particular and the civil society in General (including political […]

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