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

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Jan 14, 2026

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

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Jan 28, 2026

Trump’s National Security Strategy doesn’t downgrade the Middle East, it redefines it

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Kristian Alexander

Trump’s strategy is a sophisticated refinement of “America First.” For the Gulf, the implications are significant, but manageable.

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National Security

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

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Jan 13, 2026

Eight questions (and expert answers) on the SDF’s withdrawal from Syria’s Aleppo

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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

MENASource

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

MENASource

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

MENASource

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

MENASource

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.

MENASource

Aug 26, 2013

Top News: Prosecutor Refers Espionage Allegations Against Political Activists to State Security

By EgyptSource

Well-known activists and founding members of the April 6 Youth movement Esraa Abdel Fattah and Asmaa Mahfouz are being investigated by the Supreme State Security Prosecution on charges of espionage.

North Africa

MENASource

Aug 26, 2013

The Regime’s Chemical Warfare Calculus

By Faysal Itani

In all likelihood, the Syrian regime used chemical weapons on a large-scale last week, killing hundreds and prompting many observers to ask: With a United Nations team deployed in Damascus specifically to investigate alleged chemical weapons use, why would Bashar al-Assad’s regime so brazenly provoke a serious international backlash and possible military intervention? The confusion […]

Syria

MENASource

Aug 26, 2013

Egypt’s Christians: Pawns in a Political Chess Game

By Amira Mikhail

Following the violent and bloody dispersal of the month-long pro-Mohamed Morsi sit-ins in Raba’a al-Adaweya and al-Nahda, a wave of attacks spread across Egypt leaving close to one hundred churches and Christian properties attacked, damaged, or fully destroyed. While there are only a few reported deaths, this is the largest, most coordinated sectarian violence that […]

North Africa

MENASource

Aug 23, 2013

This Week in Egypt – August 23, 2013

By Amira Mikhail

Catch up on the latest out of Egypt every week, with analysis, news updates, photos, videos, and more.

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