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The Conference is organized by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa Research Group, Ghent University, in cooperation with and hosted by Université Mohammed V - Souissi, Rabat. The conference will revisit the history of the Middle East and ask pertinent questions pertaining to the legacies of Islam, the Ottoman Empire, and the West with regard to concepts and practices of citizenship and the rights and obligations of citizens over the past two centuries. The conference will also analyze how and why the uprisings seem to have hit republics and monarchies differently, the influence of the security state, patronage relations and clientelism, and the effects of economic developments on citizenship rights over the past decades.Information http://www.jus.uio.no/smr/om/aktuelt/aktuelle-saker/2014/citizenship.html