Peter Hill

In reports coming out of Egypt over the last few weeks, two names have been particularly prominent. They make a curiously ill-matched pair: Tony Blair and...

I only saw Bashar al-Assad once - in the flesh, I mean. It was in the Damascus Opera House in 2008, during a performance of an Arabic adaptation of Richard III...

In the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, a consensus has slowly been building in the West about the merits of “civil society” in the Arab world. Exactly...

The term “madani”, generally translated as “civil,” has played an important role in Arabic political discourse since the revolutions of the Arab Spring...