The Islamic State’s Global Propaganda Strategy
From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic: A Corridor Vulnerable to Terrorism
Les adaptations psychologiques de la propagande terroriste
Radicalisations ? Les paradoxes tunisiens
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
La tentation du Jihad intervient dans un contexte de double délitement du lien social et du lien national : lorsque des franges de la jeunesse se retrouvent littéralement «hors circuit». Mais le passage à l’acte, c’est-à-dire à la violence radicale n’en est pas pour autant automatique.
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Que révèle la polémique Kamel Daoud ?
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Les articles de Kamel Daoud, écrivain algérien, notamment auteur de Meursault, contre-enquête (Actes Sud, 2014), Prix Goncourt du premier roman, après les agressions à Cologne la nuit du Nouvel An ont suscité une controverse sur le rapport des musulmans à la sexualité, qui divise intellectuels arabes et chercheurs occidentaux.
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Entretien avec Alaya Allani
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Professeur d’histoire contemporaine à la Faculté des Lettres, des Arts et des Humanités de la Manouba et spécialiste des mouvements islamistes, Alaya Allani estime que l’Etat islamique est en train de riposter à la perte du terrain qu’il subit en Irak et en Syrie par
l’extension de la terreur, dans le but d’impressionner bien loin à la ronde et se...
Il faut dépasser la fascination pour la propagande de Daech
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Distinguer les « convertis » à l’islam des autres parmi les recrues de Daech ne suffit plus, c’est l’entrée dans la secte djihadiste qui est vécue comme une conversion, quel que soit l’environnement culturel ou religieux des recrues. Tous les observateurs s’accordent en effet sur le caractère tellement accéléré de la « radicalisation » qu’il...
La subsistance alimentaire, une arme de Daech
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
L’agriculture est géopolitique. Elle façonne les espaces et les territoires. Sa fonction première – nourrir les hommes – détermine fortement la stabilité et le développement d’un territoire, d’une société ou d’une nation. Cette centralité millénaire des questions agricoles et alimentaires se renforce, bien entendu, en temps de guerres et de...
China faced with the proliferation of the terrorist phenomenon in Africa
La mort prochaine de Daech est une illusion
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Il faut regarder de près le profil de ceux qui rejoignent l’EI ou Al-Qaïda. Ce ne sont pas des individus, mais des groupes d’amis, des frères, des parents, des connaissances de quartier. Si l’on continue de se contenter de réunions d’experts sur la déradicalisation, on aura seulement des querelles scolastiques sans efficacité.
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Identité des nouveaux djihadistes européens
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Entretien avec Farhad Khosrokhavar, directeur d'études à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) et directeur du Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques.
Poll: Most young Arabs Reject Isis and Think 'Caliphate' Will Fail
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Arab Youth Survey finds declining support for extremist group but lack of jobs is seen as main issue driving terrorist recruitment.
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The Foreign Fighters Phenomenon in the European Union
Les profils pluriels du djihadisme européen
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Le djihadisme en Europe semble avoir constamment une longueur d’avance sur les services de sécurité européens, qui en dépit d’une coopération renforcée demeurent nationaux. Paradoxalement, le terrorisme unifie l’Europe dans le sentiment d’une identité commune entre Européens qui vivent les attentats de Paris et de Bruxelles comme s’ils s’étaient...
Why French Teenagers are Joining ISIS
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Approximately 5,000 westerners have joined the Islamic State, and about 600-700 of them are female. But in France, roughly half of all those joining ISIS between the ages of 12 and 17 are girls. They are mainly from middle-class backgrounds, with around 30 per cent having no connection with Islam.
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After Ben Guerdane
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Tunisians will remember the March 7, 2016 terrorist incursion in the border town of Ben Guerdane for a long time. Analysts and officials have speculated that the aim of the assailants was to establish a Daech emirate near the Tunisian-Libyan border.
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ISIS is a revolution
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
In this article, anthropologist Scott Atran, specialist of terrorist affairs, explains why while denying ISIS appeal, the West is committing a strategic mistake.
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Etre Musulman en France
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Dans un climat politique toujours plus pesant, les débats sur les rapports entre « identité française » et islam sont constamment relancés. La présence musulmane en Europe est désormais traitée comme un problème, entre controverses (les minarets, le voile, le halal), et amalgames (radicalisation, délinquance). Mais qu’en est-il du vécu...
ISIS: The Durability of Chaos
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Mass murder has again been visited upon France and shaken the world. Again ISIS has claimed credit, though this time the link to the group seems confusingly ambiguous, feeding new fears in the West about random violence by alienated or radicalized Muslims anywhere. It raises the urgent questions: What does the attack tell us about the changing...
Agenda: Digital Technologies at the Service of Economic Development in the Mediterranean
Education Reform to Create Entrepreneurs
Oct 10, 2016 / Blog entry
The demographic clock is ticking on both sides of the Mediterranean – from an aging workforce on one end to a workforce surplus on the other. Yet whatever the demographic dynamics, the Mediterranean space is facing an incredible challenge: providing a safe, buoyant and prosperous future for its youth which would benefit its societies, their...
Access to Talent for MENA'S Entrepreneurs
Oct 06, 2016 / Library
In 2015, unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) stood at 12%, the highest regional unemployment rate in the world. Estimates suggest that the region must create 85 million jobs by 2023 to be on par with global average unemployment rates. Governments and private sector institutions are pointing to entrepreneurship as a way to...
Peer-to-Peer Learning for Host Municipalities on Solid Waste Management
Oct 06, 2016 / Highlight
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Context and Rationale
Following the exchanges during the Peer to Peer learning workshop “Mediterranean Municipalities at the Forefront of the Refugee Crisis” which took place in Amman May 30-June 1st, 2016, the Center...
Peer-to-Peer Learning Field Visit on Solid Waste Management for Communities Hosting Refugees
Sustainable Urban Transport - Middle East and North Africa - Issue #2
Preparing for the Future: Coordinating Syrian refugees and the Diaspora
Oct 04, 2016 / Blog entry
I have been looking for possible sources of investment and possible markets that would help both Syrian refugees and their host communities, and, as someone who has worked on the subject of the private sector for two decades now, one of my first questions is—“what role can the diaspora play?”
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Q & A: New Initiatives for Education in the Middle East and North Africa, Including for Refugees
Oct 04, 2016 / Blog entry
In Part II of her interview, Safaa El Tayeb El-Kogali, World Bank Practice Manager for Education, explains the initiatives being take to improve all levels of public education in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and how important it is for children to be able to go to school, especially when their countries are affected by conflict....
Promoting Public Private Partnership "PPP" to Include Transportation Start-ups in Greater Cairo
Oct 03, 2016 / Blog entry
Transportation has direct impact on the economy, the environment and people’s mobility. On one hand, the air quality is getting worse and there is pollution due to vehicle emissions resulted from the increasing fuel consumption. On the other hand, the large number of people working in places far away from their residence directly affect traffic...
Florida Bikes and Cycle Egypt: An Exemplary Synergy between a Start-up and a Cultural Initiative
Oct 03, 2016 / Blog entry
Cycling still has to fight so many battles to be accepted as a sustainable urban mode of transport in Egypt. Being not socially accepted, cycling is perceived as not suitable for respectful people.
On the one hand, the Egyptian society is very conservative and, historically, cycling always had a bad reputation: those who cannot afford buying a...
Q & A: The Importance of Early Childhood Development in the Middle East and North Africa
Oct 03, 2016 / Blog entry
With the school year starting in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), millions of children are busily preparing to resume their studies. Some, caught in conflict, may not be able to go to school at all; others may be joining schools in countries neighboring their own. At peace or in war, throughout MENA more emphasis is being placed on early...