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Christoph Wilcke

Christoph Wilcke has been a senior Middle East researcher at Human Rights Watch since April 2015, previously covering Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Jordan from 2005-2012. He directed the Middle East and North Africa program at Transparency International between 2012 and 2015. Wilcke has over 15 years of experience in the region, working with organizations like the International Crisis Group and Save the Children UK. He holds an MPhil in Modern Middle East Studies from Oxford and speaks multiple languages.

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Jordan’s assault on journalism

by Christoph Wilcke August 3, 2011

by Christoph Wilcke August 3, 2011

Character assassination is a hot topic in Jordan these days as thousands of demonstrators, riding the winds of the ‘Arab Spring’, call for reform and accuse government officials and business …
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A persistent political ice age

by Christoph Wilcke June 3, 2011

by Christoph Wilcke June 3, 2011

Entrenched Arab governments in Jordan, Algeria and even Syria and Yemen reacted to the Arab Spring with a mixture of political concessions and repression. Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, …

With Munza in the Bekaa

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Christoph Wilcke

Christoph Wilcke

Jordan’s assault on journalism

A persistent political ice age

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