Study of constitutional experiments in Iraq under foreign occupation: British and American cases focuses on the comparison of the two Iraqi Constitutions that were written and promulgated under foreign occupation. The PhD thesis tries to demonstrate that Iraq has been the subject of constitutional experiments since the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the present day.  The study has developed an interdisciplinary approach: political, historical, constitutional and philological, and has used a qualitative survey-based research methods to analyze these two constitutional processes in order to establish analogies and differences between both Constitutions.

Morocco’s November assault on the Saharan refugee camp known as Gadaym Izik marked a new phase in the US and EU policies toward
Morocco. As the conflict in Western Sahara moves to the forefront of Morocco’s priorities, international opinion has become more critical of
Rabat than ever. As a result, a different set of factors has become the foundation upon which new rules of political and diplomatic engagement
are being initiated.

The intense diplomatic activity that is taking place at different levels in Washington, Paris, Tel Aviv, Riyadh, Beirut, and Damascus is a clear sign that something is afoot in the Middle East. Just about every country in the region may come to mind as the possible cause for such activity, however, in this particular case Lebanon is the talk of the town. Deeply fractured internal politics and bad neighborly relations have been the usual culprits for unrest in this country, and this time it is no different.

Skyline International for Human Rights (SIHR) has officially launched its campaign, aiming to stop the commercial use of the spying software Pegasus, developed by Israeli company NSO Group. According to an investigation carried out by Citizen Lab and the French based organization Forbidden Stories, this technology has been used to facilitate violations and crimes against freedom of expression and human rights on an unprecedented scale. During its presentation at the event, Daniel Rivera, Skyline Director, mentioned that this technology was supposedly created to fight against terrorism. Still, the truth is that hundreds if not thousands of journalists, activists, heads of state, and other professionals and their families have been targeted by intelligence services around the MENA region using this technology. 1

with leading experts in journalism about the growing challenges and difficulties facing reporters in the MENA region. Journalists from Spain, Syria, and Palestine Muath Hamed, Ammar Hamour, Jose Bautista, and Ether Bonet gave us a unique and compelling vision about the current situation of journalism not only in the MENA region but in Spain and other countries located in the Mediterranean basin.