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The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on the death of an Egyptian influencer

Shady Habash was arrested in 2018 after producing a music video insulting President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi....

Bloomberg: Shannon Sims on favela solutions

Residents of Sao Paulo's Paraisopolis neighborhood hope to stem the coronavirus pandemic with a highly organized campaign....

THE CABLE PODCAST: Politics in the pandemic—Russia and Turkey

A discussion with Soner Cagaptay & David Kramer....

JLACA: Amelia Frank-Vitale on migrants stuck in motion

Frank-Vitale considers the impact of Central Americans' journeys for the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology....

Karina Piser on US prisons under coronavirus

The pandemic has hit prison inmates especially hard, Karina Piser writes in articles for The Nation and The New Republic. ...

GMF: Gregory Feifer and Susan Corke on transatlantic stress

The coronavirus pandemic is a pivotal moment for the transatlantic alliance, a brutal, devastating test about collective responsibility and shared values no side can afford to waste....

Eve Fairbanks in HuffPost: Don’t call the pandemic a war

Using loaded terminology to describe a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic only confuses the issue....

Washington Post: Hannah Armstrong on trafficking policy

Trafficking results in human suffering in West Africa, but removing it can bring instability, which complicates policymaking....

The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on the need to protest

A pandemic is not the time to fall in line behind the president, but to demand action....

Former fellow and trustee Carl Brown dies

The longtime Princeton University professor was one of the most respected historians of the modern Middle East and North Africa....

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