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Efforts to Fight Extremism in Education Miss the Point

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May 28, 2025

Sectarianism, social media, and Syria’s information blackhole

Since Assad’s December ousting, Syrians have struggled to sift the truth from fake claims about security incidents across the country.

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Efforts to Fight Extremism in Education Miss the Point

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May 28, 2025

Mickey goes to the Gulf: The UAE’s wish upon a soft power star

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Amit Yarom

In a region often defined by hard power rivalries, Abu Dhabi has chosen to compete through visibility, credibility and imagination.

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Efforts to Fight Extremism in Education Miss the Point

MENASource
May 27, 2025

Jordan-Israel security cooperation continues quietly but unabated 

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Emily Milliken

Despite diplomatic setbacks from the Israel-Gaza war, military and intelligence cooperation continues to thrive between the two neighbors.

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Apr 24, 2015

Efforts to Fight Extremism in Education Miss the Point

By Ursula Lindsey

On April 13, photos circulated in the Egyptian media of a book-burning ceremony. Several Ministry of Education officials can be seen in the pictures standing in a school courtyard, holding Egyptian flags and watching while a small pile of books turn to ashes in front of them. The books, reportedly from the school library, all […]

North Africa

MENASource

Apr 24, 2015

Top News: Saudi-Led Coalition Will Continue to Combat Houthi Violence

By MENASource

Restarting political dialogue in Yemen remains the only solution for ensuring the country’s future, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States said on Wednesday.

MENASource

Apr 24, 2015

Egypt’s Draft Cybercrime Law Undermines Freedom of Expression

By Ragab Saad

In 2007, blogger Karim Amer was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of insulting Islam and the president. It was the first instance in which Egyptian authorities targeted an individual on charges relating to online freedom of expression. Over the years, the public debate on online freedoms has grown, prompted by the advent […]

North Africa

MENASource

Apr 24, 2015

Top News: Execution Brigade Claims Responsibility for Tahoun’s Assassination, Warns Other Police Officers

By EgyptSource

An obscure terrorist group identifying itself as the Execution Brigade has claimed responsibility for the assassination of Wael Tahoun, the chief investigation officer of the Matariya Police Station. The group said the attack was meant to avenge lawyer Karim Hamdy, who was found dead in his cell at the Matariya police station on February 24. 

MENASource

Apr 24, 2015

EconSource: Rebel Seizure of Syrian Border Post Hits Exporters Across Region

By EconSource

Syrian rebels’ seizure of the main frontier crossing with Jordan has dealt a heavy blow to the Damascus government’s efforts to revive a once thriving export trade crippled by civil war, hurting businesses across the region.

MENASource

Apr 23, 2015

Top News: United States Concerned Iranian Ships May Carry Arms to Yemen

By MENASource

The United States is concerned a group of Iranian cargo ships may be carrying advanced weapons to Yemen, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday, as he called on Iran to avoid “fanning the flames” of the conflict with arms deliveries.

MENASource

Apr 23, 2015

Top News: No Parliamentary Elections Before Ramadan, Says Minister

By EgyptSource

Transitional Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ibrahim al-Heneidy announced that the parliamentary elections will not be held until after Ramadan, due to technical and security issues. “We are ‎back to square one again and I do not expect the poll to ‎be held anytime soon ahead of the holy Islamic month of ‎Ramadan [which is […]

MENASource

Apr 23, 2015

EconSource: ISIS Fills Coffers With Iraqi Government Cash, Sells Oil to Assad Regime

By EconSource

The Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) is skimming money from its enemies in both Damascus and Baghdad, making millions out of selling oil to the Assad regime and taxing Iraqi government money sent to civil servants in its fiefdom, according to a new BBC documentary.

MENASource

Apr 23, 2015

Tales of Blasphemy in Egypt

By Ishak Ibrahim

Dr. Mahmoud Dahroug, a man of over sixty, lives in a constant state of suspense, fearing he will be arrested to serve a five-year prison sentence issued against him late last year for being a Shiite. Most of his acquaintances have distanced themselves from him, and Dahroug spends his time reading and surfing the Internet […]

North Africa

MENASource

Apr 22, 2015

US Senators Call for Safe Zones in Syria

By Andrea Taylor

After four years of conflict in Syria – with a humanitarian atrocity that emerged from peaceful protests on the streets of Damascus and Aleppo – the horror of the statistics may have surpassed fully comprehendible proportions; many Americans seem to have turned a blind eye to this atrocity, unable to see a way past the […]

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