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Aug 28, 2013

Top News: Egypt Backs Away from Plan to Dissolve Muslim Brotherhood

By EgyptSource

Egypt should not ban the Muslim Brotherhood or exclude it from politics after the army’s overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, the interim prime minister said on Tuesday, reversing his previous stated view.

North Africa

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Aug 28, 2013

Is Libya Finally Walking the Walk?

By Karim Mezran

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan has announced the launch of a national dialogue initiative to address some of the most important challenges hindering the country’s progress toward a pluralistic and transparent political system.

Libya

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Aug 28, 2013

Consent and Legitimacy

By David Johnson

This article should begin with the explicit acknowledgement that the author, as you might have guessed on seeing the byline, is not Egyptian. Thus, it is inherently that much more dangerous, as an outsider, to speak about what it seems the Egyptian people want. Of course, given the limited extent of public opinion polling in […]

North Africa

MENASource

Aug 27, 2013

MENASource Discussions: Prospects for Kuwait with Dr. Mary Ann Tétreault

By MENASource

Senior fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center and former ambassador Richard LeBaron and Dr. Mary Ann Tétreault, a former professor of international affairs and expert on Kuwait, held a discussion on Kuwait’s prospects for political development in light of recent regional turmoil.

MENASource

Aug 27, 2013

Top News: Secularists to Dominate Egypt’s Final Constitution-Drafting Process

By EgyptSource

Informed sources close to the ten-member technical committee tasked with drafting the constitutional amendments revealed to Ahram Online that: “The presidency has already received the names nominated by political, religious, social and economic institutions to form the fifty member committee.” The lists show that secular forces are slated to gain a majority in the fifty member committee

North Africa

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Aug 27, 2013

A Sad Melody at the End of the Road

By Ahmed Naje

The time for retreat is past and all the chances to avoid this path have been burned up. The incendiary speeches are escalating from every side and are morphing from incitement to war speeches. The television stations put up the slogan “Egypt is fighting terrorism” written in English and no one tells us who and […]

North Africa

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Aug 27, 2013

Top News: West Readies Attack After Syria Gas “Obscenity”

By MENASource

US allies were drafting plans for air strikes and other military action against Syria on Tuesday, as President Bashar al-Assad’s enemies vowed to punish a poison gas attack that Washington called a “moral obscenity.”

MENASource

Aug 27, 2013

Syria: The Kerry Statement

By Fred C. Hof

Secretary of State John Kerry’s August 26, 2013 statement on Syria was powerful and direct. In the absence of a diplomatic deus ex machina it clearly indicates that an American military strike is coming.

Syria

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Aug 26, 2013

Ways Out of Political Crisis in Tunisia

By Duncan Pickard

Tunisia is amid its most turbulent political crisis since the revolution that toppled Zine El Abidine Ben Ali over two years ago. A confluence of factors has brought the crisis to a head.

North Africa

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Aug 26, 2013

Top News: UN Mission Suspended After Being Targeted by Snipers

By MENASource

Unidentified snipers shot at UN experts on Monday, forcing them to suspend their attempt to investigate claims that chemical weapons had been used near Damascus. UN weapons investigators were due on Monday to inspect the site of a suspected chemical attack which killed at least 1,300 people last week in Damascus suburbs.