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Jun 24, 2014

Egypt’s New Law for Parliamentary Elections Sets Up a Weak Legislature

By Scott Williamson and Nathan J. Brown

In an uncharacteristically immodest burst of activity, Egypt’s humble and stolid acting president, Adly Mansour, issued a series of last-minute decree-laws before handing authority over to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Some dealt with harassment, preaching, and littering. He still showed caution and restraint in some significant areas—for instance, a set of legislative changes designed to […]

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Jun 24, 2014

Top News: ISIS Moves to Capture Iraqi Border Crossings With Syria and Jordan

By MENASource

The Sunni militant extremists who have seized a broad area of Iraq extended their control on Monday to the country’s entire western frontier, having secured nearly all official border crossings with Syria and are fighting to gain the only crossing with Jordan, giving them the semblance of the new independent state that they say they intend to […]

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Jun 24, 2014

Top News: US Urges Egypt to Pardon Journalists; Sisi Refuses to Interfere in Judicial Rulings

By EgyptSource

In a statement issued on Monday, the White House condemned the sentencing in Egypt of three Al Jazeera journalists, and fifteen others, to seven to ten years in jail for aiding a “terrorist” organization. Sisi, however, said on Tuesday he will not interfere in court rulings, rebuffing calls from the United States and other Western governments.

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Jun 23, 2014

Factbox: Egypt Court Jails Jazeera Journalists

By EgyptSource

On Monday, the Giza Criminal Court sentenced eighteen people in the Al Jazeera trial to prison sentences ranging from seven to ten years. Only two of the defendants were acquitted.

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Jun 23, 2014

Top News: Jazeera Journalists Sentenced to Seven to Ten Years in Jail

By MENASource

Three Al Jazeera journalists were sentenced to seven years in a maximum security prison in Egypt on Monday after a court convicted them of helping a “terrorist organization” and spreading false news.

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Jun 23, 2014

Top News: Kerry Meets with Sisi on Sunday and US Aid is Released; Jazeera Journalists Sentenced to Jail on Monday

By EgyptSource

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Cairo on Sunday to hold talks with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The United States has released about $575 million of the suspended funds to Egypt over the past ten days, Reuters reported an unnamed State Department official as saying. Meahwhile, three Al Jazeera journalists were sentenced to […]

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Jun 23, 2014

EconSource: Libya approves overdue budget

By EconSource

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

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Jun 21, 2014

Domestic Violence: A Cultural Ailment

By Sarah El-Rashidi

Domestic violence is a widespread phenomenon in Egypt which, despite its prevalence, is largely misconstrued. 60 percent of Egyptian women conceded to being victims of domestic violence according to a 2012 Egyptian Centre for Women’s Rights (ECWR) report, and a lack of women’s rights was arguably one of the driving factors behind high female participation […]

North Africa

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Jun 20, 2014

Syria: Farmers, Teachers, Pharmacists, and Dentists

By Frederic C. Hof

In his June 19 press remarks about the situation in Iraq, President Barack Obama was asked whether the expansion of Syria’s war into Iraq courtesy of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) had changed his mind about the urgency of providing meaningful military assistance to Syrian nationalists ready and willing to fight jihadists […]

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Jun 20, 2014

Top News: US to Send Up to 300 Military Advisers to Iraq

By MENASource

President Barack Obama said Thursday that he would deploy up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to help its struggling security forces fend off a wave of Sunni militants. Stating that the militants pose a threat not just to Iraq but also to the United States.