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Jun 20, 2014

Top News: Court Sentences Brotherhood Leaders Badie, Hegazy, and Beltagy to Death

By EgyptSource

An Egyptian criminal court sentenced a number of top Muslim Brotherhood leaders to death Thursday.

MENASource

Jun 20, 2014

EconSource: Egypt reaches first deal to revise gas prices with foreign energy firm

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Jun 20, 2014

EconSource: Senate draft bill reduces US aid to Egypt

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Jun 19, 2014

Seven Important Questions on Iraq

By MENASource

Bilal Y. Saab, senior fellow for Middle East Security with the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, provides his perspective on the US role in the Iraq crisis, what’s at stake for US national security interests, and what it will really take to stabilize the situation.

Iraq

MENASource

Jun 19, 2014

The Bright Spot in the Egyptian Economy

By Mohsin Khan and Svetlana Milbert

The Egyptian economy has been slumping for the past three years. Since January 2011 economic growth has come down substantially, unemployment has been steadily rising, inflation has remained high, the fiscal deficit has expanded, and the foreign exchange reserves of the country have fallen by more than half. Clearly this is a grim picture that […]

Economy & Business North Africa

MENASource

Jun 19, 2014

Top News: Iraqi Army Controls Refinery But Militants Fight On

By MENASource

Militants stormed the complex in Baiji on Wednesday, setting fire to several storage tanks for refined products in a move that sent jitters through world oil markets. “Clashes stopped at about midnight Wednesday, but keep breaking out again from time to time,” an employee trapped inside the sprawling complex said by telephone. 

MENASource

Jun 19, 2014

Syria and Iraq: The “Skyes-Picot” Issue

By Frederic C. Hof

The violent convulsions gripping Syria and Iraq have given rise to the argument that the “Sykes-Picot” boundaries imposed by France and Britain in the Levant and Mesopotamia after the First World War will have to be redrawn to recognize and reconcile ethnic and sectarian divisions papered over by the Great War’s victorious allies.  As someone […]

Iraq Syria

MENASource

Jun 19, 2014

Top News: Egypt ranks 143 out of 162 countries in 2014 Global Peace Index

By EgyptSource

The Institute for Economics and Peace released its 2014 Global Peace Index (GPI) on Wednesday, in which Egypt ranked 143 out of 162, falling over 30 places and marking the second biggest loss in peace of any country in the world. 

MENASource

Jun 18, 2014

Egypt’s Protest Law: An Ongoing Battle

By Khaled Dawoud

Several political parties and youth movements said on Tuesday they would renew a campaign aimed at amending Egypt’s repressive protest law. The decision comes in the wake of a Cairo court issuing a surprisingly harsh fifteen-year sentence in absentia against activist and blogger, Alaa Abdel-Fattah, and twenty-four others for protesting in November against the military […]

North Africa

MENASource

Jun 18, 2014

Top News: Egypt Regains Membership in African Union

By EgyptSource

The African Union’s Peace and Security Council has unanimously agreed to unfreeze Egypt’s membership to the AU following the election of a new president, state news agency MENA reported on Tuesday.