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Mar 12, 2013

Top News: Egypt Will Not Sign “Emergency” IMF Loan, Shura Council to Draft New Election Law

By Egypt Source

An Egyptian parliamentary panel decided on Monday to draw up a new election law, aiming to avoid delays after a court cancelled President Mohamed Morsi’s decree calling for parliamentary elections in April. 

MENASource

Mar 12, 2013

Is Inflation Hurting Growth in the Arab Transition Countries?

By Mohsin Khan

Since 2011 several countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have undergone significant political transitions, whether through regime change (Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen) or through reforms undertaken by the existing governments (Jordan and Morocco). The central economic objective of all these countries is to create sufficient jobs for their young and […]

Middle East

MENASource

Mar 11, 2013

Syria’s Opposition: Ready or Not?

By Frederic C. Hof

As the Syrian uprising approaches its second year surely it is fair, with the passage of so much time, to pose a question: what good is an opposition that is not prepared to govern? 

International Organizations Politics & Diplomacy

MENASource

Mar 11, 2013

Top News: Islamist political parties form electoral alliance

By Egypt Source

 Seven Islamist political parties have launched the Umma Alliance (Nation Alliance) announcing their collaboration to protect the "achievements of the January 25 Revolution" and stand against those who interrupt the "constitutional path that allows people to choose their ruler."  GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION Presidential source: Morsi to call for new national dialogue President Mohamed Morsi will […]

MENASource

Mar 9, 2013

Egypt’s Police Strike and the Need for Reform

By Tarek Radwan

A long-brewing battle within Egypt’s ministry of interior has culminated into a potentially indefinite countrywide strike by police officers. The build up to this massive breakdown in the command and control structure inside the government’s primary security apparatus began as a few scattered protests across the different governorates of Egypt. Some of the police conscripts […]

MENASource

Mar 8, 2013

Off the Egyptian Press: To Boycott or Not?

By Andrew Ver Steegh

Reactions to the National Salvation Front’s decision last week to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections – which have since been delayed due to legal wrangling – generally followed well-established rhetorical lines. Supporters of the boycott lamented President Morsi’s mismanagement, the ‘brotherhoodization’ of the country and saw a boycott as a way to deny the current […]

MENASource

Mar 8, 2013

Top News: Egypt Police Strike, Want ‘Out of Politics’

By Egypt Source

Policemen across Egypt staged a strike on Thursday to demand the resignation of the interior minister, saying they no longer wanted to be used as a political tool, security officials said.  GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION Egypt’s opposition senses chance in election debacle To Egypt’s opposition, a court ruling throwing the electoral process into limbo offers an opportunity to […]

MENASource

Mar 8, 2013

Can Syria Be Saved?

By Frederic C. Hof

Syria’s descent into state failure now seems unchecked and inevitable. Nearly two years of turmoil have produced over a million refugees, with at least two million more internally displaced. Fighting rages on between a family-based regime willing to destroy the country rather than yield power, and a disjointed opposition whose fragmentation makes victory and defeat […]

Syria

MENASource

Mar 7, 2013

Top News: Morsi Refuses to Challenge Court Ruling Delaying Parliamentary Elections

By Egypt Source

The president’s office released a statement Wednesday evening saying it would not appeal an earlier court ruling that could delay upcoming parliamentary elections

MENASource

Mar 7, 2013

Yemen: A Glass Half-Full

By Danya Greenfield

Nearly every news article on Yemen begins with a detailed laundry-list of challenges the country faces on a daily basis (violent separatism in the South, humanitarian crises, unemployment); it is far more difficult to paint a positive picture of progress in a troubled land with deep political cleavages. However, in the world of glass half-empty […]

Yemen