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Mar 4, 2014

Top News: Sisi Gives Clearest Sign Yet of Presidential Run

By EgyptSource

Egyptian armed forces chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has sent the clearest signal yet that he will run for president, saying he cannot ignore the demands of the “majority,” the state news agency MENA reported on Tuesday. 

MENASource

Mar 4, 2014

Top News: Three Policemen Killed in Bombing at Bahrain Protest

By MENASource

Amid demonstrations against the death of a twenty-three year old protester in police custody, a bomb was remotely detonated as police attempted to disperse the crowd.

MENASource

Mar 4, 2014

Lebanon Stuck Between Leaky Borders and Politics

By Maya Gebeily

A twenty year-old girl and a ten-year old boy were killed by Syrian government airstrikes last week. It would sound like any other day in Syria, except these strikes took place on the Lebanese side of the border, killing two Lebanese civilians and wounding several others.

Middle East Syria

MENASource

Mar 4, 2014

EconSource Headlines- March 4, 2014

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transitions. 

MENASource

Mar 3, 2014

Libya’s Parallel Tracks Could Avert a Train Wreck

By Karim Mezran and Lara Talverdian

For months now, Libya has found itself in a deteriorating security situation that hampers political progress. Since the revolution in 2011, Libyan authorities and their international partners regarded the country’s security challenges as the source of the problem rather than a symptom of deeply rooted political woes. 

Libya

MENASource

Mar 3, 2014

Top News: Khaled Said’s Killers Sentenced to Ten Years in Jail

By EgyptSource

Alexandria criminal court has sentenced two policemen to ten years in jail for killing Khaled Said, in a June 2010 incident that became one of the triggers for the uprising that toppled veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak. 

MENASource

Mar 3, 2014

EconSource Headlines- March 3, 2014

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transitions. 

MENASource

Mar 3, 2014

Top News: Libya’s GNC Relocates After Attack

By MENASource

The General National Congress (GNC) moved into a five-star Tripoli hotel Monday, a day after rioters armed with knives and guns stormed the legislature building, torching furniture, killing a guard, and wounding six lawmakers in the latest episode of turmoil in the country.

MENASource

Feb 28, 2014

Not the Saudi Arabia You Hear About

By MENASource

More than 100,000 young Saudis are currently studying in the United States, and this population is seen by many as a positive force that will inevitably catalyze change in conservative Saudi society. 

Saudi Arabia

MENASource

Feb 28, 2014

Top News: Egypt’s Presidential Decree Revises SCAF and the National Defense Council

By MENASource

Interim President Adly Mansour has issued a presidential decree reconstituting the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to be headed by the defense minister and not the president for the first time in Egypt’s history.