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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

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Greater Israel: Coming soon to a neighbour near you; lines may change without notice

Greater Israel: Coming soon to a neighbour near you; lines may change without notice
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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

After the ceasefire illusion: Why Gaza’s “Day After” still has no buyer?

After the ceasefire illusion: Why Gaza’s “Day After” still has no buyer?

The international community remains fixated on a phantom: Gaza’s “Day After.” While Washington, Cairo, and Doha debate elaborate governance...

23.04.2026 70

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Progress without justice: why Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi’s killing is unlikely to reach a courtroom

Exactly 72 days have passed since the assassination of Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi. On 3 February 2026, in Zintan, a four-man hit squad eliminated the last...

16.04.2026 60

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Western politicians lie, millions die: The architecture of manufactured consent

09.04.2026 60

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

The West Wing takeover: Replacing Libyan democracy with transactionalism

02.04.2026 60

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

When presidents lie, diplomacy dies: The global cost of post-truth under Trump

26.03.2026 70

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Board of Peace is a tactical smokescreen for war in Iran and Gaza

In recent days, the first publicly reported  meeting between Hamas representatives and President Trump’s newly established Board of Peace (BoP)...

19.03.2026 80

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Iran at 47: An anniversary or an obituary?

12.02.2026 60

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

The “Donkey Flights” Project: Saving Animals While Strangling Gaza

05.02.2026 100

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Libya and the UN mandates: A laboratory of frozen chaos

29.01.2026 70

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Will Libya’s judicial divorce bury the UNSMIL roadmap for good?

22.01.2026 70

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Somaliland and the Israeli recognition: A post-mortem of Arab strategic impotence

15.01.2026 90

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Maduro’s ‘capture’ and the linguistic coup: Why I have a problem with the word

08.01.2026 150

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Despite war threats, youth revive Tripoli

01.01.2026 100

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Despite war threats, youth revive Tripoli

31.12.2025 40

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Libya’s dried-up banks: The daily struggle for cash

25.12.2025 100

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Libya: One of the most corrupt countries, yet still celebrates Anti-Corruption Day!

18.12.2025 60

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Split on the ground, intact on paper: Libya’s enduring limbo

11.12.2025 80

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

How Israel poisoned Gaza’s agricultural land for years to come

04.12.2025 90

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Beyond jargon: Tripoli’s ‘Supreme Authority’ is a self-preservation plot, not a co-ordinating framework

27.11.2025 90

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

One funeral, one birth: From Cheney’s dark shadows to Mamdani’s bright horizon

20.11.2025 70

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Haftar’s “Libyan solution”: A sovereignty claim or a power grab?

13.11.2025 90

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Israel in peace and war: How society rejects peace and endorses genocide

06.11.2025 80

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Libya at the mercy of regional powers: Where is Washington?

30.10.2025 70

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Is Libya’s UN-facilitated political process stalling again?

23.10.2025 80

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

On the Nobel Peace Prize’s troubling drift

16.10.2025 80

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

US 3Ps in Africa: Prosperity for Whom?

09.10.2025 60

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

From battlefield to boardroom: Turkey’s grip on Libya

02.10.2025 80

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Rhetoric vs. reality: The Doha summit and the Gulf’s limits on confronting Israel

25.09.2025 70

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

The excruciating wait: Tripoli on the brink of a war that may never happen

12.09.2025 40

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

A losing battle: Israel’s struggle against genocide scholars

04.09.2025 40

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Yes, we kill journalist and the world can go to hell

28.08.2025 90

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Haftar the gambler gambles again

21.08.2025 80

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

The broadcast war: Israel’s pride in its crimes

14.08.2025 80

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

The world held hostage: The price of dissent in the face of genocide

07.08.2025 50

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

To recognise or not to recognise is not the question

31.07.2025 70

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Amman’s edge: The Kingdom’s perilous balancing act

24.07.2025 60

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Tunisia’s slow unravelling: From Arab Spring beacon to police state

17.07.2025 70

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

From free to fallen: The mysterious death of a Libyan activist

10.07.2025 60

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Wars at arm’s length: How the UAE became a shadowy power and betrayed Sheikh Zayed’s legacy

03.07.2025 80

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Emirates of chaos: How the UAE fuels war and walks free

28.06.2025 90

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Emirates of chaos: How the UAE fuels war and walks free

26.06.2025 40

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Emirates of chaos: How the UAE fuels war and walks free

26.06.2025 40

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

False witness: How Europe profited from the Iran deal, then watched it burn under Trump

19.06.2025 80

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Lost impunity: Israel’s waning global support over its genocide in Gaza

14.06.2025 70

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Libya’s troubled GNU is not going just yet, further clashes are likely

05.06.2025 70

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

The set-up that flopped: Trump tried a Zelensky moment with Ramaphosa while targeting South Africa over Israel

29.05.2025 40

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Clashes in Tripoli: Causes, key players, and potential repercussions

15.05.2025 60

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Camp David peace treaty is the mother of all evils

08.05.2025 70

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Debunking Netanyahu’s barrage of lies

01.05.2025 60

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri