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EconSource: Egypt to Invite IMF to Assess Economic Reforms

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Jul 29, 2025

‘I can barely stand or make it through the day’: First-hand views of Gaza’s starvation

Israel has systematically denied aid entry into Gaza, and perpetuated false narratives intended to discredit the humanitarian community.

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EconSource: Egypt to Invite IMF to Assess Economic Reforms

MENASource
Jul 31, 2025

Beyond tariffs: Building a win-win relationship between the US and Iraq

By
Ahmed Tabaqchali

Iraq is among the countries to face a 30 percent tariff starting August 1 on its exports to the United States.

Energy Markets & Governance
Iraq

EconSource: Egypt to Invite IMF to Assess Economic Reforms

MENASource
Jul 30, 2025

After Swaida: How Syria’s periphery is shaping its future

By
Ibrahim Al-Assil

What comes next in Syria will not be determined by battlefield victories or summit declarations, but by the evolving realities on the ground.

Conflict
Democratic Transitions

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Sep 15, 2014

EconSource: Egypt to Invite IMF to Assess Economic Reforms

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and analysis about the Arab transition countries. 

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Sep 14, 2014

Syria: The Effect of Airstrikes on Aid

By Matthew Timmerman

The Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham’s (ISIS, ISIL, or the Islamic State) cavalier brutality draws headlines in the media, but its obstruction of aid in several Syrian governorates proves that it possesses more subtle means of inflicting cruelty.

Syria

MENASource

Sep 12, 2014

Top News: Progress Made in Talks Between Government and Houthis

By MENASource

Reports Thursday afternoon suggested progress in talks between the government and Houthi protesters, with the government allegedly agreeing with the Houthi leadership to roll back fuel subsidy reform by twelve percent and to possibly form a new government.

MENASource

Sep 12, 2014

Egypt’s Authorities Re-engineer the Public Space

The January 25 revolution brought Egypt nothing more than trouble and turmoil, bringing Egypt to the brink of civil war and collapse–or so the thinking goes among the firmly entrenched authoritarian mindset controlling the country.

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 12, 2014

Top News: Foreign Minister Says Egypt Won’t be Part of US Alliance against ISIS

By EgyptSource

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Thursday that it is not logical to mobilize international resources to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) when Egypt is prevented from accessing these resources while fighting a similar enemy internally.

MENASource

Sep 11, 2014

The Ongoing Campaign to Restrict Egypt’s Public Space

By Sarah El Sirgany

Today, all TV journalists working in Egypt know that tasreeh—a monthly-renewable permit issued by the interior ministry for accredited journalists to film on the streets—is back. In the wake of the January 25 Revolution, it had disappeared from the bureaucracy, but now police are once again preventing journalists from filming without permission. While some, myself […]

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 11, 2014

Expert Reactions to President Obama’s Speech on ISIS

President Barack Obama has faced tremendous pressure to respond to the stunning growth of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS, ISIL, or Islamic State). The group’s videos, showing the beheading of two American journalists, brought the conflict to bear directly on the United States in a way that captured domestic attention as never […]

Iraq Syria

MENASource

Sep 11, 2014

Top News: Militant Group Leaves Signed Note on Eighth Decapitated Body Found in Sinai

By EgyptSource

Residents in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula said on Wednesday they found a beheaded corpse bearing a note signed by an Islamist militant group, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, linked to the Syria and Iraq-based Islamic State in Syria and al-Sham (ISIS), accusing the victim of being an Israeli spy.

MENASource

Sep 11, 2014

Top News: Obama Presents ISIS Strategy; Allies Balk at Airstrikes

By MENASource

In a nationally televised address. President Barack Obama on Wednesday laid out his four-point strategy to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS or Islamic State). (Full text here.) While ruling out the deployment of US combat troops, the president has authorized US airstrikes for the first time in Syria. The […]

MENASource

Sep 11, 2014

EconSource: Tunisia–WB to Provide $1 Billion a Year in 2015 and 2016

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries. 

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