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Syria: Thinking Strategically

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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Syria: Thinking Strategically

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

Syria: Thinking Strategically

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

Feb 19, 2013

Syria: Thinking Strategically

By Frederic C. Hof

What is it that the United States wants to accomplish in Syria?  What should be done to achieve it? These are simple questions. Yet there are no simple answers. What we want and how to get it are contentious issues. Yet when it comes to matters of national security there are few governmental processes more […]

Syria

MENASource

Feb 18, 2013

Top News: SCC Declares Five Articles of Election Law Unconstitutional

By Egypt Source

The Supreme Constitutional Court rejected five articles of a draft election law on Monday and sent the text back to the Shura Council for redrafting in a move that may delay a parliamentary poll due in April.  

MENASource

Feb 16, 2013

This Week in Egypt – February 16, 2013

By Egypt Source

Catch up on the latest EgyptSource content every week, with analysis, news updates, photos, videos and more.

MENASource

Feb 15, 2013

Learning to Stare at the Sun

By Alaa Al Aswany

Some years back the US press uncovered a scandal in which Catholic priests were abusing children at church. The US press fought to document the abuses until the church finally apologized and the accused priests went on trial. The church recently appointed a special investigator, Father Robert Oliver, to look into any sexual abuse within […]

MENASource

Feb 15, 2013

Top News: NSF and Nour Party Agree – Qandil and Cabinet Must Go

By Egypt Source

The Salafist Nour Party met with members of the National Salvation Front (NSF) opposition umbrella group in a closed meeting on Thursday. The NSF and Nour Party agree on the importance of the resignation of Hisham Qandil’s cabinet.

MENASource

Feb 14, 2013

Top News: Cabinet Passes Restrictive Protest Law

By Egypt Source

The Cabinet approved a new draft law to regulate public demonstrations on Wednesday. The new law, yet to be approved by the Shura Council, has been met with criticism, the provisions within the law suggest that it restricts civilians’ right to demonstrate and seeks to justify police crackdowns on protesters.

MENASource

Feb 13, 2013

Egypt’s Mock Authoritarianism

By Zeinab Abul-Magd

Last month, after large-scale protests in the Suez Canal region, President Mohamed Morsi declared a state of emergency, imposing a curfew across three major cities in the area. Army tanks rolled into Suez, Port Said and Ismailia, to enforce Morsi’s decision. Instead, residents of these cities engaged in late night festivities in a willful, and […]

MENASource

Feb 13, 2013

Top News: US concerned over Egypt’s “climate of impunity”

By Egypt Source

The United States expressed concern on Tuesday about growing political polarization in its major ally Egypt and a "climate of impunity" over abuses by police and security forces in the most populous Arab nation.

MENASource

Feb 12, 2013

At Last, Public Participation in Constitution-Making in Tunisia

By Duncan Pickard

The deplorable and tragic assassination of Chokri Belaid last week has emboldened the lines of battle in Tunisian politics. Rallies and counter-rallies have fallen along partisan divisions, between the largely secular opponents and Islamist supporters of the Ennahda-led government. Some secularists accuse Ennahda of orchestrating the assassination despite unequivocal condemnations by Ennahda leaders, and some […]

North Africa

MENASource

Feb 12, 2013

The Day After: A Photo Essay

By Roy Gunnels

One day after the Mubarak regime fell on Feburary 12 2011, Tahrir Square was scintillating with excitement and hope, and that ever-present Egyptian humor. The Square was the heart of the revolution, where many had suffered, been maimed or killed, and where many found courage they never knew they had. The invisible layers of past anguish […]

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