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As the MENA region continues to be the epicenter of news headlines, the Atlantic Council’s MENASource is a hub for thought-provoking and hard-hitting analyses about the latest trends, ideas, and debates. This online publication provides fast reactions and in-depth commentary on breaking news and key regional topics by a diverse team of experts and contributors.

MENASource brings you up-close to a region at the epicenter of geo-political headlines. It is the Atlantic Council’s hub for in-depth commentary about breaking news, key topics, and trends from our team of experts on the Middle East and North Africa.

The views expressed in MENASource are solely those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the Atlantic Council, its staff, or its supporters.

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Top News: Egypt’s Sisi Sworn in as President

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Jan 14, 2026

Voices from Iran: As rejection of government reaches all-time high, Iranians also wary of foreign intervention

If Trump is serious about peace, stability, and a lasting legacy, the path forward does not run through air strikes or transactional deals with a failing theocracy.

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Top News: Egypt’s Sisi Sworn in as President

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Jan 28, 2026

Trump’s National Security Strategy doesn’t downgrade the Middle East, it redefines it

By
Kristian Alexander

Trump’s strategy is a sophisticated refinement of “America First.” For the Gulf, the implications are significant, but manageable.

Middle East
National Security

Top News: Egypt’s Sisi Sworn in as President

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Jan 13, 2026

Eight questions (and expert answers) on the SDF’s withdrawal from Syria’s Aleppo

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Atlantic Council experts

Our experts unpack why violence erupted, what it means for Kurdish safety and integration in Syria, and how Washington is engaging.

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Jun 9, 2014

Top News: Egypt’s Sisi Sworn in as President

By MENASource

Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has been sworn in as the eighth president of Egypt at a ceremony in Cairo. Sisi took the oath-of-office before the Supreme Constitutional Court on Sunday, beginning his four-year presidency.

MENASource

Jun 9, 2014

Top News: Sisi Sworn in as Egypt’s Eighth President, Reappoints Mahlab as PM

By EgyptSource

Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has been sworn in as the eighth president of Egypt at a ceremony in Cairo. Sisi took the oath-of-office before the Supreme Constitutional Court on Sunday, beginning his four year presidency. He reappointed on Monday the country’s prime minister Ibrahim Mahlab to head a caretaker government shortly after the cabinet tendered its resignation.

MENASource

Jun 9, 2014

EconSource: Egypt turns to Western advisers, signaling possible reforms

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Jun 6, 2014

Lebanon: Being the Daughter of the Resistance

By Hanin Ghaddar

Hanin Ghaddar, the Beirut-based Managing Editor of NOW, recently published an eloquent but hauntingly sad account of the status of Lebanese Shia who disagree publicly with the policies and ideology dictated by the leadership cadre of Hezbollah.

Iran Middle East

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Jun 6, 2014

Marginalized in Mansoura

By Eric Knecht

If you were looking for a place to understand why Egypt’s younger voters were the least well represented at the presidential polls in May where the choice came down to presidential hopefuls Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Hamdeen Sabbahi, you could do worse than visiting Mansoura. The bustling Nile delta city, once sharply divided in its […]

Elections North Africa

MENASource

Jun 6, 2014

Top News: Outgoing President Mansour Issues Several Laws Before Leaving Office

By EgyptSource

Just forty-eight hours before he is to leave office and return to his original position as head of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court, Egypt’s outgoing interim President Adly Mansour signed into law a number of pieces of legislation on Thursday evening.

MENASource

Jun 6, 2014

Open Letter to Ban Ki-moon on the Crisis in Libya

By Commission on the Libya Crisis

Four renowned experts have called on Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon to provide immediate support for Libya to avert a growing and dangerous crisis at the center of the North African region.

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MENASource

Jun 5, 2014

Choices for the Government and Opposition after the Presidential Elections

By Amr Hamzawy

As the official results have been announced with President-elect Abdel Fattah al-Sisi winning Egypt’s elections with 97 percent of the vote, major state and societal actors which influence the ruling system in Egypt will face many of the same questions that they have been confronted with in the past.  These questions will continue to be […]

Elections North Africa

MENASource

Jun 5, 2014

Sisi and Russia: No Replacement for the United States

By Mark N. Katz

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s election as president—which President Vladimir Putin indicated his support for when the two leaders met this past February in Moscow—will see a deepening of the Russian-Egyptian rapprochement that these two leaders have already begun.  Moscow is pleased that Sisi has ended Egyptian support for the Syrian opposition against Assad that ousted President […]

Elections North Africa

MENASource

Jun 5, 2014

The Egypt Effect on North Africa

By MENASource

With the election of former defense minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the presidency of Egypt, many analysts worry about the effect of such a regressive development on the other Arab transitioning countries throughout the region.

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