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After many negotiations, the Syrian rebel presence in Homs has come to an end. The city, once known as the capital of the revolution and peaceful pro-democracy protests, is now under the control of Syrian troops. Rebels cheered as they left, but the fall of...

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The Middle East Weekly Review: Egypt can still surprise

Vlad Costea

06 May 2014

A pre-election landscape in Egypt seems to foreshadow a landslide for Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, whose only opponent is Hamdeen Sabahi, who also ran for president in 2012. Despite the events in the country, analysts and specialists still believe in Egypt’s potential to do the “remarkable,”...

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Middle East Weekly Review: Fatah and Hamas sign a reconciliation agreement

Vlad Costea

29 Apr 2014

On April 23, Fatah and Hamas signed the Palestinian National Reconciliation Agreement, which implements two previous agreements signed in Doha (February 2012) and Cairo (May 2011). The two previous agreements staged that both Fatah and Hamas agree to identify the names of the members...

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Freedom of the Internet in Russia – Putin vs. "The CIA Project"

Vlad Costea

25 Apr 2014

On Thursday, April 24th 2014, the Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated at a media forum in St. Petersburg that “The Internet was a CIA project that is still developing as such”. The statement, however, was not made just to reference the Edward Snowden scandal...

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The Palestinian Land Day Night

Vlad Costea

15 Apr 2014

The Palestinian Land Day Night By Cécile Marsa Having got an invitation from the Palestinian ambassador’s hand in Bucharest – H.E. Mr. Ahmad Aqel – I went, with some Erasmus friends, on Thursday 10th April 2014, to the Sala Mare of the Palatul National al...

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The SPE Nation at the Education Fair of The University of Bucharest – April 10th & 11th 2014

Vlad Costea

11 Apr 2014

The main purposes of the SPE Nation include creating a tighter English-speaking community inside the Faculty of Political Science, helping the students learn about and/or inherit some of the cultural values of the Anglo-Saxon world, providing an online environment that is suited to help the...

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The road to civil war: Modern History of Sudan – Part 1

Elisabeta-Cristina Dinu

25 Mar 2014

Modern Sudanese history starts with the French invasion of the Ottoman province of Egypt, which paved the way for the future conquest of Sudan by the Khedive. Information about the pre-Khedivate history of Sudan is sketchy. However, while Islam came to Egypt in the 640s, and...