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Le coup d’Etat en Egypte : les défis de la transition

L’éviction du président Mohamed Morsi par l’armée égyptienne est un coup d’Etat militaire pur et simple. En effet, cette éviction répond à la définition d’un renversement illégal de la tête de l’Etat par l’armée, une faction interne, ou les services...

/ July 4, 2013

The Military Coup in Egypt: Challenges of the Transition

The ousting of President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian army is a military coup d’état pure and simple. Morsi’s ousting qualifies for a military putsch which is by definition the illegal removal of the head of the state by the...

/ July 4, 2013

Election Outcomes in Algeria

On 10th May the Algerian regime is holding parliamentary elections against a backdrop of a string of strikes, protests, riots, and the spectre of a massive boycott and abstention. In trying to reverse the tide of boycotts the regime exposed...

/ May 9, 2012

Algeria at Fifty and the Regime’s Successful Fiascos

Three major developments marked Algerian affairs in 2011. First, former minister of defence General Khaled Nazzar was arrest in Geneva, in September 2011, to answer human rights and torture charges pressed by TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), an NGO best known...

/ January 27, 2012

Mubarak’s Political Reforms

Who said that the dictators and despots cannot be reformed and that when it comes to the Middle East politics it is almost a certainty? The recent Egyptian referendum on the changes brought to the constitution allowing for election of president by direct...

/ May 30, 2005