<p>Vivienne Matthies-Boon will be an Assistant
Professor in the International Relations of the Middle East at the University
of Amsterdam from September 2013.
She focuses on Critical Theory and
Just weeks after staff from an Egyptian human rights group were arrested on terror charges, Macron rolled out the red carpet to welcome President Sisi to France.
From the revolution’s very beginning in January 2011, western diplomats were keen to reduce the demands of the Egyptian revolution to a call for formal democracy. In doing this, western spokesmen and domestic elites ensured that more substantive reforms – such as an overhaul of the entire socio-ec
After President Morsi’s Constitutional Declaration providing him with unprecedented sweeping powers, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt faces unprecedented protests. Is this a sign of its political weakness?
Beyond their regrettable cost in terms of human lives, "Innocence of Muslims" and the subsequent protests that spread across the Arab world ultimately entrap the world in a binary entrenchment reminiscent of the civilizational justifications for the War on Terror.
