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As the MENA region continues to be the epicenter of news headlines, the Atlantic Council’s MENASource is a hub for thought-provoking and hard-hitting analyses about the latest trends, ideas, and debates. This online publication provides fast reactions and in-depth commentary on breaking news and key regional topics by a diverse team of experts and contributors.

MENASource brings you up-close to a region at the epicenter of geo-political headlines. It is the Atlantic Council’s hub for in-depth commentary about breaking news, key topics, and trends from our team of experts on the Middle East and North Africa.

The views expressed in MENASource are solely those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the Atlantic Council, its staff, or its supporters.

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Top News: Frenchman Dies After Egypt Police Cell Beating

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Jul 31, 2026

Why GCC integration matters more than ever

Gulf countries can’t build their knowledge economies of the future on their own.

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Top News: Frenchman Dies After Egypt Police Cell Beating

MENASource
Jul 13, 2026

Israel’s next government must prioritize the Abraham Accords

By
Amit Yarom and Itai Melchior

The fall election could open a narrow window for Israel to reset its regional strategy and create momentum to expand normalization.

Israel
Politics & Diplomacy

Top News: Frenchman Dies After Egypt Police Cell Beating

MENASource
Aug 3, 2026

Can al-Zaidi separate the sects from the state in Iraq?

By
Munqith Dagher

The biggest challenge facing Iraq’s prime minister is how to curb the role of sectarian institutions in shaping Iraq’s state decisions.

Conflict
Iran

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MENASource

Sep 18, 2013

Top News: Frenchman Dies After Egypt Police Cell Beating

By MENASource

France’s foreign ministry says a Frenchman died while in police custody in the Egyptian capital. The ministry said Tuesday it was seeking details about the death of the man who Egyptian authorities say was killed by cellmates while in police custody in Cairo.

MENASource

Sep 18, 2013

Tunisia: Ennahda’s Uncertain Future

By Naim Ameur

With the raging war in Syria, the ouster of the first democratically elected president in Egypt, and unstable political paralysis in Libya, Tunisia’s democratic transition seems to be the last hope of the Arab spring in the region.

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 17, 2013

MENASource Discussions: A Conversation with Dr. Mustafa Abushagur

By MENASource

Karim Mezran, senior fellow with the Rafik Hariri Center, sat down with Dr. Mustafa Abushagur, former interim Libyan deputy prime minister, to ask him questions on September 12 regarding the most pertinent issues facing Libya’s transition to democracy.

Libya

MENASource

Sep 17, 2013

Top News: Brotherhood Spokesman Gehad al-Haddad Arrested

By EgyptSource

Spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood Gehad al-Haddad was arrested on Tuesday afternoon in an apartment in Cairo’s Nasr City. Haddad was arrested along with Morsi-era governor of Qalyubiya Hossam Abu Bakr.

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 17, 2013

Government Regulations to Place Mosques under Azhar Control

By Amir Beshay and Nancy Messieh

The Egyptian Ministry of Endowments recently announced that it will stop granting licenses to imams who are not affiliated with al-Azhar. In an unprecedented move, the measure will be applied retroactively, with over 55,000 imams losing their licenses in the process, while all other imam licenses will be revoked if they are not renewed within […]

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 17, 2013

Top News: Weaponry Plundering Prompts US Training Withdrawal from Libya

By MENASource

The US defense department has confirmed to the Libya Herald that US equipment was stolen in a raid by an unidentified militia on a US base in Tripoli, where US Special Forces were training Libyan army personnel. 

MENASource

Sep 16, 2013

Top News: UN Says “Convincing Evidence” of Syria Chemical Attack

By MENASource

UN inspectors said in a report Monday there is “clear and convincing evidence” that chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale in an attack last month in Syria that killed hundreds of people.

MENASource

Sep 16, 2013

Top News: Security Forces Retake Control of Islamist Stronghold in Upper Egypt

By EgyptSource

Security forces backed by armored vehicles and helicopters on Monday stormed a town south of Cairo, Delga, that had been held for over two months by militants loyal to the ousted Islamist president, swiftly taking control despite some resistance from gunmen.

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 16, 2013

Syria: The Chemistry of Continuing Conflict

By Frederic C. Hof

The framework agreement arrived at by Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, is a good beginning to a worthy end: removing all chemical weapons and their components from the arsenal of a regime that has used them in its longstanding and continuing campaign of mass terror against Syrian civilians.

Syria

MENASource

Sep 16, 2013

Libya: Divided They Fail

By Karim Mezran and Lara Talverdian

Attention in Washington to the one-year anniversary of the Benghazi attack that took the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans gives reason to believe that a commitment still exists to assist Libya as it faces grave challenges in trying to achieve the goals of its revolution.

Libya
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