MENACS blog

MENACS will be running a blog series during the COVID-19 crisis. The blog will explore how the virus is affecting communities in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as other pressing issues in the region.

We encourage a plurality of perspectives and debates through the blog. The pieces reflect the individual views of the authors and are not representative of MENACS as a centre. Please contact MENACS if you are interested in submitting a blog piece:menacs@sussex.ac.uk.

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Anticolonial solidarity must counter Trump’s legacies in Western Sahara, Palestine and beyond

15 January 2021

Sussex anthropologist Alice Wilson analyses Trump’s recognition and normalization deal with Morocco.

Iraq, Shia Islamic Authorities, the State, and Crisis

18 June 2020

Sussex sociologist Ali Kassem examines the role of religious actors in Iraq's response to Covid-19

Fifty shades of lockdown Covid-19 in Syria: Another calamity (on top of everything else)

2 June 2020

Feras Alkabani reflects on the meanings of ‘lockdown’ in a war zone.

Palestine under lockdown: what's new?

14 May 2020

Sussex historian Jacob Norris writes on Covid-19 in Palestine as part of a new blog series from the Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex.