Stay Updated


Content

MENASource

Jun 16, 2015

Top News: Cairo Court Confirms Death Sentence on Ousted President Morsi

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s former president Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to death by hanging and handed a life imprisonment sentence after being convicted in two cases on Tuesday.

MENASource

Jun 16, 2015

EconSource: Egypt Enters into Initial Deal for Projects Worth $10 Billion with China

By EconSource

Egyptian Trade Minister Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour has signed an initial framework agreement with representatives from the Chinese trade ministry for fifteen projects worth about $10 billion.

MENASource

Jun 16, 2015

Is This the End of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood?

By Gillian Kennedy

In the blistering heat of a Cairo courtroom in May, a resolute looking Mohammed Morsi listened as the judge announced a death sentence for charges of corruption and torture against the ousted president, which allegedly took place during his one year in power in 2012.

North Africa

MENASource

Jun 15, 2015

Turkish Coalition Politics: Prospects for the Kurdish Peace Process

By Aaron Stein

Turkey still needs a “solution” to its “Kurdish” (aka democracy) problem—and the AKP and HDP may need each other more than ever. Turkey’s fourth largest political party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), surprised many observers of Turkish politics with its strong showing in the recent general election.

Turkey

MENASource

Jun 15, 2015

Top News: Syrian Rebels Accuse Kurds of Deliberately Displacing Arabs

By MENASource

More than a dozen Syrian rebel and militant groups on Monday accused the country’s Kurdish militia of committing “ethnic cleansing” against Arabs and Turkmen in northern Syria, a charge strongly denied by the Kurds and lacking in conclusive evidence.

MENASource

Jun 15, 2015

Top News: Egypt’s Press Syndicate to Hold Emergency Meeting to Discuss ‘media crackdown’

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s Press Syndicate is to hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss the ongoing crackdown on journalists and press freedom, said Khaled al-Balshy, head of the syndicate’s freedoms committee.

MENASource

Jun 15, 2015

EconSource: Saudi Arabia Opens $585 Billion Stock Market to Foreign Investors

By EconSource

Saudi Arabia’s stock market, valued at $585 billion, opened up to direct foreign investment for the first time today, as the kingdom seeks an economic boost amid low global oil prices.

MENASource

Jun 13, 2015

The Final Mubarak Trial [+INFOGRAPHIC]

By Khaled Dawoud

The drama of the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak, which first began in August 2011 appears to finally have an end in sight. On June 4, Egypt’s highest Court of Cassation rejected a decision by the Appeals Court to drop the charges against Mubarak on technicality. Instead, it said Mubarak should be retried alone […]

North Africa

MENASource

Jun 12, 2015

ISIL, Iraq, and Syria: The Strategy Challenge

By Frederic C. Hof

Once again, President Barack Obama is taking grief for having committed truth on the subject of strategy: this time acknowledging the incompleteness thereof in the context of training the Iraqi national army.

Iraq Syria

MENASource

Jun 12, 2015

Top News: UNESCO Heritage Site Destroyed in Sana’a

By MENASource

Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Houthi strongholds destroyed historic houses in the Old City of Sana’a, a UNESCO world heritage site. At least five civilians were killed and others buried under the rubble, medical officials and witnesses said.