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Mar 7, 2014

What Mexico Can Teach Tunisia on Electoral Gender Parity

By Cory Siskind and Duncan Pickard

Tunisia’s new constitution tackles a recurring problem in republican politics: disproportionately low representation of women in national assemblies—a fact worth considering today on International Women’s Day.

North Africa

MENASource

Mar 7, 2014

Top News: Saudi Arabia Declares Muslim Brotherhood a ‘Terrorist Organization’

By EgyptSource

Saudi Arabia listed Friday the Muslim Brotherhood of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi as a terrorist organization, along with Syria’s two main militant groups, according to Al-Arabiya television network.

MENASource

Mar 7, 2014

Top News: Saudi Arabia classifies ISIS, Nusra, and Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist groups

By MENASource

On Friday, a royal decree in Saudi Arabia blacklisted the Syria-based Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) and The Nusra Front as a terrorist group along with the Muslim Brotherhood, the kingdom’s branch of the Shia Hezbollah movement, and Yemen’s Houthi movement.

MENASource

Mar 7, 2014

Dispatch: Libya’s Rome Conference

By Karim Mezran

Libya’s international partners and allies gathered in Rome yesterday in a show of support for the North African country’s transition to democracy since Qaddafi’s ouster in 2011.

Libya

MENASource

Mar 7, 2014

EconSource Headlines- March 7, 2014

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Mar 7, 2014

Syria: The Risk Factor

By Frederic C. Hof

Perhaps the single greatest cause of Obama administration paralysis on Syria is the president’s assessment of risks involved in departing significantly from his current policy.

Syria

MENASource

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

MENASource

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.

MENASource

Mar 6, 2014

EconSource Headlines- March 6, 2014

By EconSource

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