In this sharp new piece, @haidhaid22.bsky.social examines the tenuous ceasefire in Syria’s Sweida region, warning that the U.S.-brokered truce masks deeper unresolved tensions. Amid rising sectarian hate speech, the calm may prove short-lived.
Read full article: lnkd.in/efX3njFw
23.07.2025 18:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔎 #Syria: "A possible misunderstanding is that #Al-Sharaa and his allies thought #Israel might allow some movement if he eased up on the #Golan."
👉 @arabreforminit.bsky.social ‘s Nadim Houry
➡️Full show: f24.my/BJy4.x
#ısrael #Sweida
17.07.2025 18:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Can a constitutional declaration drafted in two weeks shape Syria’s future? Zaid Al-Ali, Visiting Fellow at Princeton unpacks the risks and potential of Syria’s new transitional framework in this in-depth conversation with ARI’s Nadim Houry.
Full interview: lnkd.in/dTE-awqU
@zalali.bsky.social
10.04.2025 13:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢 27/03/2025 - Webinar:
A panel discussion featuring four dossier authors, diving into how environmental governance is evolving in #Syria, #Palestine, and #Iraq, and examining the impact of recent political shifts on climate resilience.
🔗 Register here: lnkd.in/diVrCrPC
24.03.2025 12:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Webinar Series: #Palestine Insight | The Arab League’s Reconstruction Plan for #Gaza: What Role for Palestinians?
📅 Thursday, March 20
⏰ 10-11:30am CET | 11am-12:30pm Gaza
📍 Online
Details & Zoom registration:
tinyurl.com/49v6755m
@alshabaka.bsky.social
19.03.2025 11:58 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Nadim Houry était l'invité de l’émission Parlons-en sur @france24.com, aux côtés du journaliste Ludovic De Foucaud. L’échange a porté sur l’évolution de la situation en #Syrie, marquée par des violences sans précédent et les défis d’un éventuel accord avec les Kurdes.
🔗 tinyurl.com/54dpewsa
14.03.2025 11:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interview with Laury Haytayan, #MENA Director of the Natural Resource Governance Institute, examines how Lebanon’s already dire economic and energy crises have been deepened by the recent war:
tinyurl.com/3w4b2u97
#Lebanon
10.03.2025 12:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
With #AbdelmadjidTebboune’s landslide re-election, #Algeria enters a new phase, is it truly a "New Algeria" or just a return to military dominance in civilian affairs? In this in-depth analysis, policy expert Aghiles Aït-Larbi unpacks Algeria’s shifting power dynamics.
📍https://lnkd.in/dTS2DcSN
04.03.2025 14:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to share my new report on how people are organising for the environment in Iraq and the challenges they face amidst an increasingly shrinking civic space in the country
09.02.2025 16:25 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A fragmented environmentalist movement in #Iraq struggles with addressing the country's major challenges due to limited funding, oppression and lack of political will for change. Collective action is needed!
New @arabreforminit.bsky.social report
www.arab-reform.net/publication/...
10.02.2025 10:22 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Justice in Syria should be “a new social contract”
Two months after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, Nadim Houry explores the possibilities for transitional justice in Syria. In his view, “civil peace without justice is inconceivable today” ...
#Syria [in-depth interview] - Two months after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, Nadim Houry explores the possibilities for transitional justice in Syria. In his view, “civil peace without justice is inconceivable today” in Syria.
25.02.2025 13:25 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
How did #Tunisia shift from a decade of unprecedented media freedom to an environment marked by #censorship, intimidation, and state control?
Learn more in our latest publication by Dr. Larbi Chouikha:
lnkd.in/dFpjjreD
26.02.2025 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We're about to start! Join the conversation:
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20.02.2025 15:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How Do Perceived Threats Shape Coup-Proofing Strategies in #Turkey and #Egypt?
New paper by ARI’s Berfin Necimoglu & political analyst Hossam El-Hamalawy to explore how regimes reshape their #security sectors to maintain power: tinyurl.com/ydtrwvmn
17.02.2025 09:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WEBINAR | Energy Transition in MENA
The Arab Reform Initiative & MIPA are hosting a regional webinar on Feb 20, 2025 (4-5:30 PM) to explore policy gaps, challenges, and solutions for a just energy transition.
Speakers include experts from ARI, UCL, URITI, & KarmSolar.
Register here: lnkd.in/enFbRgiN
13.02.2025 11:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great discussions on Arab diaspora politics at this fantastic conference in Paris! I am grateful to @carepparis.bsky.social, @arabreforminit.bsky.social for their hospitality, and their crucial work on migration, exile, and transnational politics.
More details👇
www.arab-reform.net/event/from-r...
04.02.2025 06:42 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New Research:
Taif Alkhudary, doctoral student at the University of Cambridge, examines the rise of environmental activism in Iraq amid increasing authoritarianism and climate challenges.
Read the paper:
lnkd.in/d3_MFXbM
#Iraq #ClimateChange
07.02.2025 14:57 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Once a rare Arab Spring success story, Tunisia’s media freedoms are now caught in a tightening vise—with every new arrest, every censored broadcast, the fate of its hard-won democracy hangs in uneasy balance.
More in Hatem Nafti’s new commentary:
lnkd.in/dN-pKqkU
#Tunisia #MediaFreedom #Democracy
05.02.2025 07:40 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Arab Reform Initiative مبادرة الإصلاح العربي -
Dr. Zakaria Ibrahim, Professor University Cadi Ayyad
Extractivism in Academic Research.
Dr. Zakaria Ibrahimi, a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, explains how environmental sociology can transcend extractivist research by actively involving local communities in researched areas and conducting scholarship in native languages
youtu.be/w5zLAFfJd5s
04.02.2025 15:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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22.01.2025 10:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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