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In 1904, Morocco was split into three spheres of influence: one French, one Spanish, and a Tangier zone. The original idea for the internationalization of Tangier, discussed also in the frame of the Algeciras Treaty of 1906, is rooted in…

Oltre due mesi dopo la tragica morte di Mahsa Amini, la giovane ragazza curda deceduta sotto custodia della polizia morale tre giorni dopo il suo arresto a Teheran, non si ferma l’ondata di proteste scoppiate in diversi centri urbani contro…

Like many other things, nationalism in India is both similar and very different than that of the only country comparable in scale to its 1.4 billion people – China, which has 100 million more inhabitants. If the Chinese Communist Party and…

Since at least 2009 and the “Green Revolution,” the young and middle-class population of Iran has repeatedly demonstrated its disgust with the aging clerical rulers who govern their lives. They march in the streets at risk of everything to…

“Study, study and study!”. This famous quote, with which Lenin hoped to encourage the illiterate masses of peasants to become self-conscious socialists, seems to have made a comeback in Russia, this time for other reasons. At the beginning…