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The Kirkuk-Baniyas Pipeline: What Does History Tell Us?

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The Kurds in “The New Middle East”

April 9, 2025

Sardar Aziz

A new wave of transformation is sweeping across the Middle East, making the region more fluid than ever. All regional powers are navigating potential shifts, while socioeconomic conditions remain far more fragile than institutional framework. The events of October 7th have shattered old structures and regimes, yet no clear new order has taken shape. These upheavals are also impacting the Kurds across all four countries where they reside, leaving them caught between the prospect of peace and the persistence of conflict.

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GenZ212, Nonmovements, and the Monarchy: The Future of Protest in Morocco

A paradox of evolution and revolution, the 2025 Moroccan Gen Z movement was, in many respects, the ideological heir to previous uprisings while simultaneously representing a conceptual evolution in the repertoires of popular dissent. The protests marked a nuanced shift towards decentralised, unconventional nonmovements, an iterative process whose immediate and enduring legacy has profound implications for the future of both protest and governance in modern Morocco.

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