January, 2011
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, January 31, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Guerillas in Government? Hezbollah solidifies its position
In the third feature in this week's 'Lebanon Special', Ceasefire's political editor, Omayr Ghani, gives his overview of events in the past two years and his own predictions about the future.
New in Ceasefire - Sunday, January 30, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
From Bad to Worse: grim prospects for peace in the Levant
In the second feature in this week's 'Lebanon Special', Chris Bowles gives his predictions about developments in the region.
New in Ceasefire - Saturday, January 29, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Israel: Stay out of Lebanon this time
In the first feature in this week's 'Lebanon Special', Nussaibah Younis writes from West Beirut about a possible Israeli invasion. Any such intervention, she argues, is bound to have disastrous consequences.
South of The Border - Friday, January 28, 2011 13:42 - 1 Comment
South of the Border The view from Latin America
As Brazil recoils from yet another disaster at the hands of torrential rain, Tom Kavanagh reports on how once again it is those at the bottom of the ladder whose suffering is greatest.
Features, New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, January 27, 2011 18:22 - 4 Comments
Exclusive: Liberating Cairo
In an exclusive report, Ceasefire's Cairo correspondent Jumanah Younis reports directly from the protests of the last two days – the biggest since Mubarak came to power thirty years ago. "One protest I attended in an area called Ramses was attended by no more than 150 people. I arrived to find tyres burning in the road; a no man’s land between protestors and riot police on the other side."
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches, Politics - Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:22 - 1 Comment
North African Dispatches KEFAYA!
In this week's North African Dispatches, Kateb Salim revisits Orwell's dystopia to explain recent events in the Maghreb. After Tunisia, it seems Egypt might soon follow....
New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, January 25, 2011 14:00 - 15 Comments
Delaying adulthood, emerging adulthood or adulthood in crisis?
In this Ceasefire Blog, Hana Riazuddin insightfully explores the social, cultural and psychological influences on young people's transition from student life to adulthood, and asks, how will we ever become adults, and more importantly when?
The Anti-Imperialist - Monday, January 24, 2011 0:03 - 1 Comment
The Anti-Imperialist Congo: 50 years since the death of Lumumba
This year is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the one of Congo's most important anti-colonial leaders. Since Patrice Lumumba’s untimely death, Adam Elliott-Cooper argues that Congo has seen half a century which has delivered neo-colonial riches to the west, and Africa’s first World War.
In Theory - Friday, January 21, 2011 14:29 - 4 Comments
In Theory Giorgio Agamben: destroying sovereignty
In his last column, Andrew Robinson introduced the work of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. This week, he continues his assessment of Agamben by examining the basis for revolutionary political action and resistance to sovereignty that emerges from Agamben's work.
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:20 - 3 Comments
North African Dispatches “Ben Ali, c’est fini!”
This week's round-up from North Africa describes how the Tunisian population’s unrelenting pressure throughout the country which saw the end to the Ben Ali system. Mohamed Bouazizi’s passing away, alongside the hundreds of other dead in the repression, Kateb Salim argues, will not have been in vain.
