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Mapping Europe renewable energy landscape: Insights into solar, wind, hydro, and green hydrogen production
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)The study offers an in-depth examination of the capabilities and output of renewable energy sources, specifically focusing on solar, wind, hydroelectric, and green hydrogen technologies, within 27 countries of the European ... -
A Study on Lebanon’s Competitive Knowledge-Based Economy, Relative Strengths, and Shortcomings
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)Lebanon faces several social, political, and economic challenges delaying the efforts to develop a sustainable economy and inclusive society. The advancement of the knowledge economy is critical to the future economic ... -
Unlocking the power of public awareness: paving the way for sustainable wetland management in Anzali, Iran
( Frontiers Media , 2023 , Article)The Anzali Wetland, located in the Guilan Province of Iran, is a vital ecosystem with significant ecological value. However, it faces numerous environmental challenges due to pollution, habitat degradation, and unsustainable ... -
Regional Agriculture and Food Systems Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of the Near East and North Africa Region
( MDPI , 2024 , Article Review)The COVID-19 pandemic affected agri-food systems worldwide. However, while the impacts differed from one country/region to another, the scholarly literature seems to focus on developed countries in the Global North. ... -
In-formalized polity and the politics of dynasty in Egypt and Libya
( Taylor and Francis , 2014 , Book chapter)The Arab Middle East has entered a moment of revolution, inevitable counterrevolution, and transition. Integral to this moment is a dialectical dynamic in which the formal and the informal conjugate, through unsettled ... -
Routledge handbook of the arab spring: Rethinking democratization
( Taylor and Francis , 2014 , Book)The self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia in December 2010 heralded the arrival of the ‘Arab Spring, ' a startling, yet not unprecedented, era of profound social and political upheaval. The meme of the Arab Spring ... -
Preface: The meme of the arab spring
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Unruliness through space and time: Reconstructing ‘peoplehood’ in the arab spring
( Taylor and Francis , 2014 , Book chapter)This chapter presents a critical account of the phenomenon of the ‘Arab Spring’. This it does via an unorthodox interpretation of why the Arab Spring élan represents a departure point from many 20th-century revolutions. ... -
Discoursing ‘democratic knowledge’ & knowledge production in North Africa
( Taylor & Francis , 2015 , Other)North Africa (interchangeably used with the term ‘Maghrib’) has historically featured as a contributor to Euro-Med cultures and civilisations. Mesopotamia, Egypt and Phoenicia all at one point in time or another mediated ... -
The Arab spring is not lost: Moral protest as the embodiment of a new politics
( Taylor & Francis , 2019 , Book chapter)This chapter explores the “Arab Spring” popular Uprisings sweeping the MENA region since late 2010 to posit moral protest as a dynamic of new politics “from below.” It begins with a conceptualization of bottom-up “protest ... -
Rethinking unsustainability in Tunisia's sustainable development
( GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies , 2020 , Article)This article problematises sustainable development in Tunisia through the lens of regional (under)development. Decades of accumulated imbalances between the country's coastal (Sahel) and southern/interior regions stand as ... -
Reflexive politics and Arab 'risk society'? COVID-19 and issues of public health
( GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies , 2020 , Article)Zeroing in on the notion of "risk society," this article attempts to unpack the challenges posed by COVID-19 on the Arab world. It highlights problems of inequality within and between Arab states with respect to public ... -
Re-visioning Germany's democracy promotion in the Arab World
( GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies , 2022 , Article)This article briefly investigates German democracy promotion in the Arab world since the 2011 popular uprisings and revolutions. It seeks a parsimonious discourse analysis, looking at Germany's "democracy-promotion speak" ... -
Crisis of Democratisation in the Maghreb and North Africa
( Taylor & Francis , 2023 , Other)Democratisation in revolutionary times matters to academia and to our social world. Reflecting on the urgent scholarly need among students of Arab and Middle Eastern politics to address the crisis of democratisation is ... -
Tunisia’s “civic parallelism”: Lessons for Arab democratization
( Taylor and Francis , 2019 , Book chapter)This chapter suggests that knowledge must be situated at the centre of explorations of Arab democratization, primarily through the inclusion of subaltern voices. To demonstrate this line of argument, the chapter addresses ... -
The Tunisian experience post-2011: The crisis of democratization
( Taylor and Francis , 2023 , Book chapter)Offering a critical counter-narrative that upends the received wisdom about Tunisia’s fledgling democracy, the analysis here challenges existing literature on Tunisia’s democratization since the 2011 revolution, eschewing ... -
Libya's Arab spring: The long road from revolution to democracy
( SAGE , 2012 , Article)This article presents a critical account of Libya's incipient democratization, contextualizing it within the Arab Spring élan. This first line of inquiry is twofold: it critically assesses the meaning of democratization ... -
The impact of the Arab spring on the gulf cooperation council
( Taylor & Francis , 2015 , Article)It is apposite to interrogate the notion of ‘monarchical exceptionalism’ when testing the idea that the ‘Arab Spring’ has not affected the so-called ‘ruling bargain’ in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The Arab Spring ... -
Towards a ‘democratic knowledge’ turn? Knowledge production in the age of the Arab Spring
( Taylor & Francis , 2015 , Article)This contribution (and the special issue as a whole) marks a modest attempt to initiate an investigation into what is called here ‘democratic knowledge’. This is done with special reference to the Arab Maghrib (in this ... -
Media-ting democratic literacies
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