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Nov 19, 2014

US-Egypt Aid Relationship: A Work in Progress

By MENASource

Perhaps the most confusing aspect of the US-Egypt relationship lies in the assistance package provided to Egypt since its signing of the 1979 peace treaty with Israel.

North Africa

MENASource

Nov 19, 2014

Tunisians Abroad Miss Historic Votes

By Thalia Beaty

Tunisians will return to the polls on November 23 to choose a new president in the country’s first transparent election for a head of state. The vote comes just a month after parliamentary elections gave a nationalist, secular party, Nidaa Tounes, a mandate to form the next government.

North Africa

MENASource

Nov 19, 2014

EconSource: Iraq Transfers $500 Million to Kurds in Budget Deal

By EconSource

The Iraqi government transferred $500 million to the autonomous Kurdish region as part of a deal to end oil and budget disputes. The Kurdish autonomous region began moving oil to federal oil tanks in the Turkish port of Ceyhan, upholding their side of the deal to give 150,000 bpd to Baghdad. This deal marks an […]

MENASource

Nov 18, 2014

Top News: Tunisia’s Parties Endorse Candidates as Presidential Poll Looms

By MENASource

Last Sunday political party Afek Tounes announced that it would be backing candidate Beji Caid Essebsi in the presidential elections. On Wednesday, al-Aman party announced it would be backing Ahmed Nejib Chebbi’s candidacy, whose party only received one seat in the country’s legislative elections.

MENASource

Nov 18, 2014

Top News: Government Ready for Tough Response to Salafi Front “Islamic Uprising”

By EgyptSource

Any threat to police facilities “will be met with force and if necessary with live rounds,” ministry of interior spokesman Hany Abdel Latif said in an interview on Sunday.

MENASource

Nov 18, 2014

EconSource: Egypt Spent $3 Billion on Fuel Subsidies in the First Quarter

By EconSource

Egypt spent EGP 22 billion ($3.08 billion) on fuel subsidies in the first quarter of the new fiscal year. According to the oil ministry this reflects a reduction by 29 percent from the same quarter a year ago. As part of efforts to revive the economy Egypt’s government has introduced deep subsidy cuts. In July […]

MENASource

Nov 17, 2014

Civil Society’s Fundamental Role in Egypt

By Amr Hamzawy

Executive authorities in countries around the world clamp down on civil society organizations when they wish to delude citizens about what’s really going on in society.  These authorities find it particularly convenient to suppress civil society when seeking to ensure silence about the ways in which the rule of law is being violated and rights […]

North Africa

MENASource

Nov 17, 2014

What’s Next for Tunisia’s Foreign Policy?

By Alexander Nisetich

Tunisia’s interim government will soon step down, to be replaced by a president and legislature that will serve for the next five years. While the incoming government is not yet complete, its policies will differ significantly from the departing interim authorities, and the contrast may be sharpest in foreign policy.

North Africa

MENASource

Nov 17, 2014

Top News: ISIS Executes US Aid Worker and Eighteen Soldiers

By MENASource

ISIS militants released a chilling videotape on Sunday showing they had beheaded a fifth Western hostage, an American aid worker the group had threatened to kill in retaliation for airstrikes carried out by the United States in Iraq and Syria. President Obama on Sunday confirmed the death of the aid worker, Peter Kassig, a former […]

MENASource

Nov 17, 2014

Top News: Five al-Azhar Students Sent to Military Court; HRW Condemns Expansion of Military Trials

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s prosecution referred on Sunday five al-Azhar University students to a military court on charges of attacking a vital state institution, after the Cairo Criminal Court announced that it lacks sufficient jurisdiction to rule in the case.