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Dec 4, 2013

Top News: Minister of information asserts that Syria’s Assad will lead any transition process

By MENASource

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will remain president and lead any transition agreed upon in Geneva peace talks planned for next month, a government minister insisted on Wednesday. “If anyone thinks we are going to Geneva II to hand the keys to Damascus over [to the opposition], then he might as well not go,” Information Minister […]

MENASource

Dec 4, 2013

Top News: PM Urges Roadmap Supporters to Vote on Referendum; Islamists Say it Will be Rigged

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s interim Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawy has urged those who took to the streets on June 30 to also show their support by voting for the recently amended constitution. The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, a pro-Morsi coalition led by his Muslim Brotherhood movement, has said it rejects the country’s newly amended constitution, but has stopped short of […]

MENASource

Dec 4, 2013

EconSource Headlines-December 4, 2013

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Dec 3, 2013

Tunisia: How the Region’s “Best Hope” Needs Help

By Lara Talverdian

Despite signs of an increasingly divided society, the recent stalemate between Tunisia’s ruling Troika (led by Ennahda and two smaller, secular parties) and the opposition will likely be resolved through the national dialogue currently underway. It still faces many difficult hurdles, however, and support from the international community is essential.

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MENASource

Dec 3, 2013

Egypt’s Protest Law: The Interim Government and the Fabrication of Problems

By Nader Bakkar

While the Nour Party represented the second largest bloc in the Shura Council, it was critical of the council’s inability to fulfill its basic role. It was also critical of the manner in which it issued one law after the other, as if in a race against time, the deadline looming set by the next […]

North Africa

MENASource

Dec 3, 2013

Top News: Activist Ahmed Douma Arrested, April 6’s Ahmed Maher to Remain in Detention

By EgyptSource

Prominent activist Ahmed Douma was arrested at his home in Cairo and taken to a police station on Tuesday morning, he said via Twitter. He did not specify the reason for his arrest. Meanwhile, activist Ahmed Maher, a co-founder of the April 6 Youth Movement, will remain in detention for four days pending investigations on charges related to violating a […]

MENASource

Dec 3, 2013

Top News: Report finds corruption growing in Middle East hot spots

By MENASource

An international watchdog group says its annual survey shows the most violent nations in the Middle East are perceived to be the region’s most corrupt and are getting worse. Transparency International’s 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index ranks more than four-fifths of countries in the Middle East below fifty on a scale where zero is a country perceived to be […]

MENASource

Dec 3, 2013

Highlights from Egypt’s Draft Constitution (Part 2)

By Mai El-Sadany

On December 2, 2013, head of the fifty-member Constituent Assembly Amr Moussa presented the full text of the draft Constitution to interim president Adly Mansour, who is expected to approve it promptly. The draft comes into an Egypt that finds itself mired in political tension, unresolved issues of transitional justice, and attempted usurpations of the […]

North Africa Political Reform

MENASource

Dec 3, 2013

EconSource Headlines-December 3, 2013

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Dec 3, 2013

Mohsin Khan on an IMF Agreement with Egypt

By MENASource

Ever since the start of Egypt’s efforts toward a democratic transition began in 2011, repeated attempts by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help economically stabilize Egypt have been met with abortive efforts from the subsequent Egyptian governments.

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