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MENASource

Aug 25, 2015

Top News: Egyptian Religious Authority Says Brotherhood Seeks to Legitimize Violence

By EgyptSource

Dar al-Ifta, Egypt’s major authority on religious edicts, said the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood group has sought to “legitimize violence” after a document affiliated to the group urged what Dar al-Ifta called “terrorist acts” and the killing of police and military personnel.

MENASource

Aug 25, 2015

EconSource: Iraq Oil Minister Says $9 Billion in Arrears Paid to Oil Firms

By EconSource

Iraq has paid foreign oil companies $9 billion in remaining arrears for 2014 and will pay outstanding fees for 2015 in stages until the beginning of next year, Oil Minister Adel Abel Mehdi said

MENASource

Aug 24, 2015

Facing up to Fear

By Amr Hamzawy

I face up to it, this fear that day in, day out curses my family – our security, stability, and happiness – and my own wellbeing. This fear might silence my outspoken opposition to the increasing injustice holding us under siege on all fronts. It might compel me to disregard the moral and social imperative […]

North Africa

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Aug 24, 2015

Top News: Egypt Arrests Three Under New Terrorism Law

By EgyptSource

Egyptian police have arrested, under a new anti-terrorism law, three individuals who are accused of spreading Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) propaganda through Facebook.

MENASource

Aug 24, 2015

Top News: ISIS Blows Up Ancient Temple At Palmyra

By MENASource

The Islamic State (ISIL or ISIL) set off explosions at a temple in the ancient ruins of Palmyra in Syria on Sunday, continuing a pattern of destruction that they have visited upon historical sites across the territory they control there and in Iraq.

MENASource

Aug 24, 2015

EconSource: Fitch Revises Saudi Arabia’s Outlook to Negative From Stable

By EconSource

Fitch Ratings revised its outlook on Saudi Arabia to “negative” from “stable,” citing lower oil prices and increased spending tied to the accession of King Salman.

MENASource

Aug 21, 2015

Tunisia Needs Entrepreneurs

By Mohsin Khan and Hanane Lahnaoui

The lack of jobs was one of the most important factors in creating the conditions for the uprising in January 2011 in Tunisia that launched the so-called Arab Spring. In the decade 2000-2010, with the economy growing at an average annual rate of 4.5 percent, overall unemployment averaged nearly 14 percent and youth unemployment hovered […]

North Africa

MENASource

Aug 21, 2015

Top News: Israeli Air Raids On Syria Kill Five People

By MENASource

Syrian state television reported Friday that Israel’s air force carried out a drone strike in the village of Kom in southern Syria’s Quneitera province killing five people. One soldier was killed and seven others wounded in a separate Israeli air raid overnight.

MENASource

Aug 21, 2015

Top News: HEC Approves Foreign, Local Organizations to Monitor Parliamentary Elections

By EgyptSource

Khalid Sultan, head of the Solidarity Ministry’s Central Administration of NGOs, said that forty-five NGOs received approvals to monitor the parliamentary elections after they fulfilled conditions set by the ministry.

MENASource

Aug 21, 2015

EconSource: Tunisia to Adopt Investment Code in Early October

By EconSource

Tunisia’s House of People’s Representatives (HPR) will adopt a set of economic bills at the beginning of October, Minister of Communication Technology and Digital Economy Noomen Fehri said, including an investment code.