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Mar 7, 2014

Dispatch from Cairo’s Courts: The Jazeera Trial

By Bel Trew

It was the moment the Egyptian courtroom had been waiting for: the evidence proving three jailed Al-Jazeera English journalists were involved in terrorist activity. It took almost two hours for the presiding judge Mohamed Nagi to inventory the contents of the hotel room of the “Marriot terror cell”, the nickname given by local media to […]

North Africa

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Mar 6, 2014

Top News: In Yemen, Islah Leader Killed in Clashes Between Tribes and Houthis

By MENASource

Fighting in the northern al-Jawf province between Houthi and Bani Nawaf tribal fighters have resulted in the death of an Islah leader and two of his bodyguards. Clashes are ongoing and these are the only casualties confirmed thus far, but reports suggest that many members of the Bani Nawaf tribe have arrived in the area, […]

MENASource

Mar 6, 2014

Top News: Cabinet Approves Draft Presidential Elections Law

By EgyptSource

During its first meeting, the new cabinet approved the draft law regulating presidential elections after review of the legislation by the State Council.

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Mar 6, 2014

EconSource Headlines- March 6, 2014

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Mar 6, 2014

How Syria’s Micro Shapes the Macro

By MENASource

Complex emergencies in drawn out conflicts, as is the case in Syria, are just that: complex. When dealing with multiple power players, armed groups, demolished infrastructure, refugees and the internally displaced, and an overall humanitarian disaster, the variables can paralyze the steeliest of policy makers. It becomes that much more important to focus in on […]

Syria

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Mar 5, 2014

Syria’s Neglected Refugee Crisis Presents Opportunity To Revitalize US Policy

By J. Trevor Ulbrick

President Barack Obama’s Syria policy is in the doldrums. Adrift in a sea of sectarian conflict and buffeted by savvier global and regional players, US policy has never seemed more rudderless. With a second round of peace talks in Geneva ending without “even agreement on how to negotiate,” President Obama has asked his top aides […]

Syria

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Mar 5, 2014

Constitution-Making in Libya: What Lessons From Tunisia?

By Geoffrey Weichselbaum and Duncan Pickard

The constitution adopted in Tunisia at the end of January represents the region’s best chance at achieving an elusive goal: sustainable democracy based on the rule of law. Next door, Libya two weeks ago elected a Constitutional Assembly to attempt the same.

Syria

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Mar 5, 2014

Top News: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and UAE Recall Ambassadors to Qatar

By MENASource

Citing what they view as Qatar’s failure to abide by an agreement not to interfere in the internal affairs of other Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE have recalled their ambassadors to the country.

MENASource

Mar 5, 2014

Top News: NCHR Says Pro-Morsi Supporters Initiated Violence in Raba’a Dispersal

By EgyptSource

The National Council for Human Rights, Egypt’s state-run rights watchdog, announced the results on Wednesday of its long-awaited report on last August’s bloody dispersal of a main protest camp in support of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.    

MENASource

Mar 5, 2014

Syria and Ukraine: Cause and Effect?

By Frederic C. Hof

In 1961, a young US president with an active, inquisitive, open, and skeptical mind learned the hard way that the world can be cruel; that behavior regarded in polite society as restrained, rational, and reasonable can be processed by the bullies of the world as weakness to be exploited.

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