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MENASource

Feb 1, 2016

Top News: Cartoonist Released After One Night in Detention; NGO Founder Detained at Airport

By EgyptSource

Cairo prosecutors ordered on Monday the release of Egyptian cartoonist Islam Gawish without filing charges against him a day after he was arrested. The Ministry of Interior said Gawish, the owner of a satirical caricature Facebook page, was arrested Sunday at the headquarters of the news website, Egypt News Network (ENN), which they raided after […]

MENASource

Feb 1, 2016

EconSource: Baghdad and KRG Agree to Cooperate on Economic Reform

By EconSource

A delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) met Sunday with the Iraqi government and agreed to cooperate on reforms aimed at addressing an acute economic crisis.

MENASource

Feb 1, 2016

Can Tourism Save Oman from Cheap Oil?

By Giorgio Cafiero

Of all Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members, non-OPEC Oman is most vulnerable to low oil prices. In the 1990s, the sultanate discovered that its oil reserves were substantially smaller than previously thought and Oman’s sovereign wealth fund is a fraction of the size of other GCC nations.

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

MENASource

Jan 29, 2016

Top News: Syrian opposition not in Geneva on the day of peace talks

By MENASource

UN officials said Syrian peace talks will begin in Geneva as planned Friday, despite an ongoing boycott by the main Syrian opposition group, which continues to stay away pending assurances from the UN chief on the implementation of Security Council resolutions related to humanitarian issues.

MENASource

Jan 29, 2016

A US War Resolution Against ISIS, Revisited

By Daniel R. DePetris

On December 6, 2015 President Barack Obama spoke to millions of Americans in a nationally televised address on the progress that has been made in the war against the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) in both Iraq and Syria.

Iraq Syria

MENASource

Jan 29, 2016

EconSource: Morocco Suspends Contacts with EU Delegation Over Trade Row

By EconSource

Morocco has suspended contacts with the European Union (EU) delegation in Rabat over a trade dispute, a move that could slow multi-million dollar development projects.

MENASource

Jan 29, 2016

Five Years On: Egypt’s Minorities

By Elissa Miller

The climate for Egypt’s religious minorities has improved little since the 2011 revolution. Coptic Christians, Shias, Baha’is, and atheists have been subject to discrimination, hate-speech, arrests, and violence under successive governments.

North Africa

MENASource

Jan 29, 2016

Top News: Reuters Says EgyptAir Mechanic Suspected in Russian Plane Crash; Russia, EgyptAir Deny

By EgyptSource

In a report Friday Reuters, citing sources familiar with the matter, said an EgyptAir mechanic whose cousin joined the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) in Syria is suspected of planting a bomb that brought down a Russian passenger plane in Egypt late October. A senior security official at the airline denied that any of its […]

MENASource

Jan 28, 2016

Top News: Human Rights Remain in Crisis in Egypt says HRW in Annual Report

By EgyptSource

Human Rights Watch said in its annual review on Wednesday that human rights remained in crisis in Egypt in 2015. In the introduction to the review of over 90 countries, HRW’s Executive Director Kenneth Roth wrote “the spread of terrorist attacks beyond the Middle East…led many governments to curtail rights in misguided efforts to protect […]

MENASource

Jan 28, 2016

Top News: United States weighs military options in Libya

By MENASource

The United States is weighing potential military options in Libya as Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) extremists expand their influence, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said on Wednesday.