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May 9, 2014

Top News: American Journalist Deported from Yemen as Official Warns “Others Next”

By MENASource

Adam Baron, one of only two foreign journalists with press visas in the country, was forced to leave the country on Thursday. Baron was contacted on Monday regarding an error with his paperwork, but when he went to get it resolved he was held until he agreed to leave the country. Baron says the only reason he was given […]

MENASource

May 9, 2014

Top News: Obama Nominates Ambassadors for Key Egypt and Iraq Posts

By EgyptSource

President Barack Obama said on Thursday he would nominate two career diplomats with extensive experience in the Middle East as ambassadors to Egypt and Iraq.

MENASource

May 9, 2014

The Death Sentence: Consequences of Taking the Wrong Path [Part II]

By Yussef Auf

The repercussions of sentencing hundreds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death have mostly been negative. The positions of international officials towards what happened may give a sense of the scale of the extremely negative reaction to these events.

North Africa

MENASource

May 9, 2014

The Battle Behind Campus Walls

By Eric Knecht

Egyptian universities have become too dangerous for the state to handle. Or at least it would seem that way. Students this week at Cairo University, the country’s largest national university, sat for final examinations on campuses more closely resembling high security prisons.

North Africa

MENASource

May 8, 2014

MENASource Discussions: Libya Under the Microscope

By MENASource

A new Atlantic Council report examines the threats to Libya’s stability, provides a detailed mapping of the militia landscape, and details policy options for the Libyan government and its international partners. In Libya’s Faustian Bargains: Breaking the Appeasement Cycle, the authors attribute the cycle of violence, intractable political stalemate, and weakened economy to the Libyan authorities’ […]

Libya

MENASource

May 8, 2014

Top News: Bahraini Shia Youth Risk Radicalization as Political Talks Stall

By MENASource

Scenes of masked men marching with petrol bombs and denouncing Bahrain’s king, broadcast in online videos in recent months, might once have been dismissed as a cry for attention by groups from Bahrain’s majority Shia community seeking to shore up a flagging cause for democratic reform.

MENASource

May 8, 2014

Top News: Sabbahi Vows to Continue Brotherhood Ban; Reject US Assistance

By EgyptSource

Hamdeen Sabbahi vowed to maintain the ban on the Muslim Brotherhood if he is elected president.

MENASource

May 7, 2014

Sisi in the Hot Seat: Reading Between the Lines

By Wael Eskandar

Former Field Marshall and presidential hopeful Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appeared on television for the first time in an extended interview on May 5 and May 6 of 2014. The interview was conducted by two leading presenters in Egyptian media who championed the ouster of former present Mohamed Morsi, Ibrahim Eissa, known to have been an […]

Elections North Africa

MENASource

May 7, 2014

Top News: Tunisia to Offer Amnesty to Jihadists Not Convicted of Murder

By MENASource

Tunisia’s president promised an amnesty Tuesday for jihadists who disarm and who have not been convicted of murder but gave no further details of the proposed amnesty. Under the current anti-terrorism law, adopted in 2003 under Ben Ali, heavy prison sentences can be handed to anyone linked to a banned group, whether or not the […]

MENASource

May 7, 2014

Top News: African Union to Monitor Egypt’s Presidential Elections

By EgyptSource

The African Union will send a mission of parliamentarians, journalists and civil society representatives to monitor the upcoming presidential elections, Foreign Ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty said on Wednesday.