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Top News: Algerians Head to Polls Amid Fears of Election Fraud

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Dec 16, 2025

What will 2026 bring for the Middle East and North Africa?

As 2025 comes to a close, our senior analysts unpack the most prominent trends and topics they are tracking for the new year.

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Top News: Algerians Head to Polls Amid Fears of Election Fraud

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Dec 7, 2025

One year after Assad’s fall, here’s what’s needed to advance justice for Syrians

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Elise Baker and Ahmad Helmi

The second year of a post-Assad Syria requires structural reform, victim-centered leadership, and international reinforcement.

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Top News: Algerians Head to Polls Amid Fears of Election Fraud

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Nov 20, 2025

Saudi Arabia’s next horizon: Building human capital beyond Vision 2030

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Khalid Azim

Riyadh still needs to take fully support small and medium-sized enterprises—the true engines of job creation.

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Apr 17, 2014

Top News: Algerians Head to Polls Amid Fears of Election Fraud

By MENASource

Algerian voters are heading to the polls today, April 17, to vote in a presidential election overshadowed by accusations of fraud and calls for the ruling regime to step down. Incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seeking an unprecedented fourth term amid widespread worries about his health, and following allegations that the results of the previous […]

MENASource

Apr 17, 2014

EconSource: Russia to supply Egypt with LNG

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Apr 17, 2014

Silence Please, Algeria is Dying: Interview with Kamal Benkoussa

By Richard Nield

Today is Election Day in Algeria and analysts predict that the aging and ailing incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stands to win yet another term in office, effectively making him president for life. The political space has remained closed since the government canceled the country’s first democratic elections in 1991, which Islamists were poised to win. […]

North Africa

MENASource

Apr 17, 2014

Syria is Not a Stalemate

By Mohammed Alaa Ghanem

Last week, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was quoted as saying that “This year the active phase of military action in Syria will be over.” Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah sounded a similar note, stating, “The danger of the Syrian regime’s fall has ended.” They do not believe the military situation in Syria is a stalemate. As […]

Syria

MENASource

Apr 16, 2014

Top News: Jordanian Jets Strike Vehicles on Syrian Border

By MENASource

Jordanian military warplanes struck a convoy of “camouflaged” vehicles as they were trying to enter Jordan from Syria, the army said in a statement Wednesday, in an unusual move at a time of tensions between the desert kingdom and Damascus. A Syrian military official said the vehicles did not belong to the Syrian army.

MENASource

Apr 16, 2014

Top News: Sabbahi Campaign says Government Dismisses Complaint of Bias; Succeeds in Collecting Signatures

By EgyptSource

The official campaign of leftist presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabbahi said on Tuesday that Egypt’s government has dismissed a complaint it lodged against perceived bias shown by officials in favor of his main rival in the polls, ex-army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.

MENASource

Apr 16, 2014

EconSource: Egyptian government to adopt new economic stimulus package

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Apr 16, 2014

Syria: Is There a Conscious Administration Strategy?

By Frederic C. Hof

At a recent regional conference hosted by the Lebanese Armed Forces in Beirut, a very prominent, careful, and well-connected journalist offered a stunning hypothesis that achieved instant credibility with a roomful of mainly Arab defense, foreign policy, and academic intellectuals: that far from being at sea in terms of Syria policy, the Obama administration is […]

Syria

MENASource

Apr 16, 2014

Are Jordan’s Elite Blind to Classism?

By Amani Al-Khatahtbeh

The recent Twitter war of words that erupted in Jordan last week illustrates just how divided the country is between the haves and have-nots, and how the pervasive sense of injustice and corruption continues to boil under the surface.

MENASource

Apr 15, 2014

Egypt 2014: Dismantling the Myth of the Candidate of Necessity

By Amr Hamzawy

There is a myth now being promoted by intellectual, political and media groups who favor the regime that followed the July 3 2013 overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, and support former Defense Minister Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s run for president. While this myth deals with Egypt’s current situation, its structure is far from new. In […]

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