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Khartoum, Yasser Fayez   In 1994, the publication of the boys’ magazine Al Sybian became another victim in a string of children’s publications in Sudan to be suspended, despite its establishment nearly 50 years earlier by Bakht Al Ruda Institute, the official entity designated to educational curricula in Sudan. From 1947 to the first decade of the 21st century, 33 children’s magazines in Sudan were suspended, including Al Baheth Al Sagheer (Young Researcher), Shleel (Stream), Sabah (Mourning) and Al Waha (The Oasis), after state funding was withdrawn for children’s magazines, which could not survive without government support. The rates...

Tunis, Shawqi bin Hassan,   There are some political events that seem like black holes from which nothing can escape. They receive the majority of media exposure and coverage for a considerable period of time, sometimes to the extent that anything else that happens attracts little attention. A classic example of this is large-scale events such as wars, revolutions, coups d’état and terrorist operations. Over many years, the Arab world has been through severe turbulence and turmoil, including the relatively recent civil unrest in Tunisia in 2011 and the riots that followed in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and of course...