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Feb 7, 2014

Top News: Protesters in Yemen Commemorate Third Anniversary of Uprising

By MENASource

Ten of thousands of Yemenis gathered in Sana’a today, marking the third anniversary of the popular uprising that ousted former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

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Feb 7, 2014

EconSource Headlines- February 7, 2014

By EconSource

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

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Feb 6, 2014

Gamal Abdel Nasser: Method Actor

By Maged Atiya

Marlon Brando, who saw his acting talent as an undesired gift, explained his method as inhabiting the character so thoroughly that all his actions were produced by its logic rather than his thinking. The intimate link between politics and theater has always been with us, Shakespeare wrote of it, the Greek dramatists never missed it, […]

North Africa

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Feb 6, 2014

Top News: Tunisia marks one year since opposition leader’s assassination

By MENASource

Thursday marks one year since the assassination of Chokri Belaid. Belaid was a prominent politician and critic of the Islamist government. His assassination triggered massive anti-government protests and a political crisis from which Tunisia has only recently started to emerge, with the adoption of a consensus constitution last month.

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Feb 6, 2014

Top News: Al-Jazeera English Journalists Moved to Lower Security Detention

By EgyptSource

The family of detained Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy said on Wednesday that he and his two colleagues were moved to a lower security section of the Tora prison complex.  “It is confirmed that Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed are now in a lower security prison held together in the same cell,” said Fahmy’s […]

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Feb 6, 2014

EconSource Headlines- February 6, 2014

By EconSource

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

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Feb 6, 2014

Is the Gulf Rethinking Egypt’s Presidency?

By MENASource

Gulf countries have thrown their weight enthusiastically behind Egypt’s military-backed government, but recent signals indicate hesitation over the new Egyptian Field Marshal General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s ascension to the presidency.

North Africa

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Feb 5, 2014

Egypt’s Presidential Elections: From the Outside Looking In [Part II]

By Nader Bakkar

Despite personal convictions about holding presidential elections first, mentioned in the first part of this article, the nomination of two military candidates, in Minister of Defense Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and former Chief of Staff Sami Anan, has become a foregone conclusion. (At least at the time of writing.) While some candidates may already have garnered […]

Elections North Africa

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Feb 5, 2014

Top News: Regime Hits Mosque With Barrel Bomb; Refugees, Fleeing Bombs, Stuck At Turkish Border

By MENASource

Men pull a girl from the rubble and haul her onto a dirty sheet of plastic, while another child, coated in white dust save for a red streak of blood from his nose, lies with his crushed leg dangling off a gurney—the grisly aftermath from the dropping of a crude “barrel bomb” by Syrian forces […]

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Feb 5, 2014

Top News: Morsi ‘Presidential Palace’ Trial Adjourned to March 1

By EgyptSource

During its fifth hearing, the trial of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and fourteen co-defendants has been adjourned until March 1. Morsi, his presidential aides and senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders are accused of inciting the murder and torture of opposition protesters outside the presidential palace in December 2012. Civil rights lawyers also requested that Defense Minister Abdel […]