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Can Mehdi Jomaa Fix Tunisia’s Economy?

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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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Can Mehdi Jomaa Fix Tunisia’s Economy?

MENASource
Dec 7, 2025

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

By
Elise Baker and Ahmad Helmi

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

Democratic Transitions
International Norms

Can Mehdi Jomaa Fix Tunisia’s Economy?

MENASource
Nov 20, 2025

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

By
Khalid Azim

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

Economy & Business
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MENASource

Jan 29, 2014

Can Mehdi Jomaa Fix Tunisia’s Economy?

By Svetlana Milbert

Months of political stalemate finally came to an end as Tunisia’s Islamist-led government resigned transferring power to caretaker Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa.

North Africa

MENASource

Jan 29, 2014

Top News: Four Al-Jazeera Journalists and Sixteen Others Referred to Criminal Court

By EgyptSource

Egyptian prosecutors referred on Wednesday four foreign Al-Jazeera journalists and sixteen Egyptians, including Peter Greste, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, to criminal court. The sixteen Egyptian defendants face charges including belonging to a terrorist organization, harming national unity and social peace, and using terrorism as a means to their goals.

MENASource

Jan 29, 2014

Syria in The State Of The Union Address

By Frederic C. Hof

In Syria, we’ll support the opposition that rejects the agenda of terrorist networks… American diplomacy, backed by the threat of force, is why Syria’s chemical weapons are being eliminated, and we will continue to work with the international community to usher in the future the Syrian people deserve—a future free of dictatorship, terror and fear.

Syria

MENASource

Jan 28, 2014

The Collapse of the Phrase ‘Constitutional Pragmatism’

By Amr Hamzawy

Some of the political groups, parties and public personalities that raised the banner of democracy and supported the constitutional draft issued by the appointed Committee of 50 worked to encourage participation in the recent referendum, calling on citizens to vote ‘yes.’ As part of this campaign, they employed a hollow and misleading phrase: ‘constitutional pragmatism.’

North Africa
Political Reform

MENASource

Jan 28, 2014

YemenSource – Headlines January 28, 2014

By YemenSource

TOP STORY The Yemen Policy Initiative, a joint effort of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council and the Project on Middle East Democracy, issued a statement congratulating the Yemeni people on the formal conclusion of its National Dialogue Conference, and calling upon the United States and the international community […]

MENASource

Jan 28, 2014

Top News: Egypt’s Minister of Interior Aide Shot Dead in Giza

By MENASource

 General Mohamed al-Saeed, head of the minister of interior’s technical office, was shot and killed by unknown militants on Tuesday morning on al-Haram Street, said a statement issued by the ministry of interior.

MENASource

Jan 28, 2014

Top News: Morsi Appoints Defense Lawyer, Trial Postponed to February 22

By EgyptSource

Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood went on trial at a Cairo police academy on Tuesday on charges in connection with a mass jail break during the 2011 uprising. The trial was postponed on Tuesday to February 22, while the prosecution ordered the arrest of 109 more fugitive defendants. 

MENASource

Jan 28, 2014

EconSource Headlines- January 28, 2014

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Jan 28, 2014

Yemen Faces Fresh Challenges as National Dialogue Ends

By Danya Greenfield

Amidst troubling reports of setbacks in the Arab awakening countries – ongoing militia violence in Libya and repressive measures in Egypt by the military-backed government – Yemen offers an inspiring and hopeful example with the recent completion of its National Dialogue Conference (NDC).

Yemen

MENASource

Jan 28, 2014

Egypt’s Descent in Media Freedoms: How Far Can it Go?

By Miriam Berger

The terms “banned” and “terrorist” are once again affixed to mention of the Muslim Brotherhood in nearly all Egyptian media. State and private media alike tout the military-backed government’s lines. Newspapers and talk shows on TV, Egypt’s most popular medium, extol the military for reclaiming the revolution and sinisterly warn against traitors who dissent. All […]

North Africa
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