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After Swaida: How Syria’s periphery is shaping its future

What comes next in Syria will not be determined by battlefield victories or summit declarations, but by the evolving realities on the ground.

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Did the Israel-Iran war expose China’s Middle East policy?

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The region’s importance in Beijing’s foreign policy is limited and, thus, not much energy and resources are invested in long-term planning.

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MENASource

Dec 6, 2013

The ‘New’ Draft Constitution Part I: A Flawed Beginning

By Yussef Auf

As the fifty-member committee tasked with amending the suspended 2012 Constitution has finished its work, criticism of the committee, its formation and its amended text have continued. Undoubtedly, the most significant criticism of the committee is the fact that it was appointed by the July 3 authority responsible of theouster of former president Mohamed Morsi. […]

North Africa Political Reform

MENASource

Dec 6, 2013

English Translation of Egypt’s 2013 Draft Constitution

By EgyptSource

With a popular referendum on Egypt’s draft constitution expected in January, the final draft has been submitted to interim President Adly Mansour for his approval. The referendum is expected to take place in the first or second week of January. Doing away with much of the original 2012 constitution drafted under ousted president Mohamed Morsi, […]

North Africa Political Reform

MENASource

Dec 6, 2013

Top News: Al-Qaeda-claimed attack in Yemeni capital kills fifty-two

By MENASource

At least fifty-two people were killed and 167 wounded after a car bomb rocked the defense ministry in the capital Sana’a on Thursday, an Al Arabiya correspondent reported. Six doctors, including a Venezuelan and two from the Philippines, were among the people killed, Agence France-Presse quoted medical and security sources as saying.

MENASource

Dec 6, 2013

Ambassador Fred Hof Address to the Harvard National & International Security Program on Syria

By MENASource

After months of tentative dates, preliminary conferences, and backroom wrangling, the Geneva II peace talks are now penciled in for January 22. Considering the track record of delays, it is fair to wonder if this new date will stick. But the larger question facing the Geneva process is whether a diplomatic solution to the Syrian […]

Syria

MENASource

Dec 6, 2013

Top News: Egypt No Longer Allows Visits to Ousted President

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s Interior Ministry says it will no longer allow visits to the country’s ousted president, now held in a remote desert prison. 

MENASource

Dec 6, 2013

EconSource Headlines-December 6, 2013

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Dec 5, 2013

Rags and Tatters: The Moments Egypt’s Revolution Forgot

Rags and Tatters opens to a scene of shaky cell phone footage inside an Egyptian prison in 2011. You hear the voice of a man saying, “Please film this,” as you prepare to launch into an hour-and-a-half of moments that Egypt’s revolution forgot. 

North Africa

MENASource

Dec 5, 2013

Is International Mediation the Way Out of Tunisia’s Political Conflict?

By Bassem Bouguerra & Duncan Pickard

Tunisia is in the midst of the most intractable political conflict since the 2011 revolution. The debate pits the ruling Islamic party, Ennahda, against a coalition of secular forces led by Nidaa Tunis, an opposition party founded in 2012.

North Africa

MENASource

Dec 5, 2013

Top News: Universities Consider Enforcing Protest Law on Campuses

By EgyptSource

A number of Egyptian universities, including Cairo, Ain Shams and Helwan Universities are studying the possibility of applying Egypt’s newly passed protest law on their campuses. 

MENASource

Dec 5, 2013

Top News: Gunmen kill US teacher in Benghazi

By MENASource

Gunmen shot and killed an American chemistry teacher working at an international school in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi on Thursday, according to medical and security sources. The teacher had been jogging near the US Consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other personnel were killed in an assault in September 2012.

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