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

MENASource
Dec 7, 2025

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

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

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

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
Middle East

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

MENASource
Nov 10, 2025

The Nile at a crossroads: Navigating the GERD dispute as Egypt’s floodwaters rise

By
Alessia Melcangi

The latest escalation between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia coincides with a diplomatic shift from the United States.

Africa
Climate Change & Climate Action

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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.

North Africa

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.

North Africa

MENASource

Dec 3, 2013

EconSource Headlines-December 2, 2013

By EconSource

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

MENASource

Dec 2, 2013

An IMF Program for Egypt in 2014?

By Mohsin Khan

Discussions on an International Monetary Fund (IMF) program for Egypt have been going on for almost three years without a deal being struck. The two sides came close to an agreement in June 2011 and then in late 2012, but each time the Egyptian government walked away from the table. As recently as August this […]

North Africa

MENASource

Dec 2, 2013

Top News: Egypt May See Presidential Vote First, President to Receive Draft Constitution

By EgyptSource

The fifty member Constituent Assembly tasked with amending the 2012 constitution finished its final vote on the constitution on Sunday evening, pending four contentious articles which did not pass. The committee is scheduled to hand the draft document to Interim President Adly Mansour on Tuesday. Egypt’s political transition was pitched into uncertainty on Sunday when a draft constitution […]

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