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Of particular focus and interest are the minorities, women, and the youth populations across the region and how they are affected by the changing environments.

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Problems With Neighbors: Turkey, Iraq, and the Syrian Kurds

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Jul 29, 2025

‘I can barely stand or make it through the day’: First-hand views of Gaza’s starvation

Israel has systematically denied aid entry into Gaza, and perpetuated false narratives intended to discredit the humanitarian community.

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Problems With Neighbors: Turkey, Iraq, and the Syrian Kurds

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Jul 31, 2025

Beyond tariffs: Building a win-win relationship between the US and Iraq

By
Ahmed Tabaqchali

Iraq is among the countries to face a 30 percent tariff starting August 1 on its exports to the United States.

Energy Markets & Governance
Iraq

Problems With Neighbors: Turkey, Iraq, and the Syrian Kurds

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Jul 30, 2025

After Swaida: How Syria’s periphery is shaping its future

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Ibrahim Al-Assil

What comes next in Syria will not be determined by battlefield victories or summit declarations, but by the evolving realities on the ground.

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MENASource

Nov 29, 2012

Problems With Neighbors: Turkey, Iraq, and the Syrian Kurds

With reports of clashes between Kurdish militias and jihadist elements of the Syrian opposition in the ethnically mixed town of Ras al-Ain on the Syrian-Turkish border, the question of how Syria’s Kurdish population will fit into a post-Assad state has been forced to the front. For the past twenty months Syrian opposition forces have challenged […]

Iraq Syria

MENASource

Nov 29, 2012

NATO Partnerships in the Middle East: Time for a New Look

By Richard LeBaron

NATO’s efforts to establish patterns of cooperation with countries in the Middle East and North Africa have not prospered. With the exception of the Libya campaign, the Alliance has not played a significant role in addressing conflicts in the region. NATO has assiduously avoided involvement in the Syria conflict or in countering Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Formal […]

Middle East NATO

MENASource

Nov 28, 2012

Two Wrongs Do Not Make A Democracy

By Tarek Radwan

When Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi announced his now infamous constitutional decree last week, he probably expected some pushback – but nothing on the scale of what Egypt is witnessing today. In this turbulent transition, mistakes are bound to be made but Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood appear insistent on making it worse by not listening […]

MENASource

Nov 28, 2012

Another Election “Crisis” in Kuwait

By Richard LeBaron

Kuwait has more experience with elections than any other country in the Gulf and more than most countries in the Middle East and North Africa.  Its tiny population of eligible voters (currently around 400,000) has been going to the polls since 1975, and the number of crises involving the ruling al-Sabah family and the 50 […]

The Gulf

MENASource

Nov 28, 2012

Top News: Egypt Constitution Draft to be Finished Wednesday; President Stands by New Powers, Chief of Staff Says

By Egypt Source

The head of the assembly drafting Egypt’s new constitution said the final draft would be finished on Wednesday, and three other members of the assembly told Reuters the document would be put to a vote on Thursday.

MENASource

Nov 27, 2012

The Trust Deficit

By Mirette F. Mabrouk

Mohamed Morsi may be a new president but he’s developing a very steep learning curve. Last Thursday, possibly buoyed by his success in negotiating a ceasefire in Gaza, Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi released a new constitutional declaration giving himself almost unlimited, if supposedly temporary power. The declaration says that any law or decision issued by […]

MENASource

Nov 27, 2012

Why is the Muslim Brotherhood Waging War against the Media?

By Ahmed Naje

Nothing annoys the powers that be in Egypt like the media. In a speech after Friday prayers a few weeks ago, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi warned the public about the dangers of foreign-funded satellite channels, saying they distort the facts and slow progress. Days later, the prime minister announced that the broadcast of Egypt’s network, Dream, […]

MENASource

Nov 27, 2012

Top News: Morsi ‘optimistic’ about current instability; another Constituent Assembly member resigns

By Egypt Source

For up to the minute updates from the Tahrir protest today, follow: Ahram Online, Egypt Independent President Mohamed Morsi is optimistic that Egyptians will overcome the current political instability caused by his recent constitutional declaration, presidential spokesperson Yasser Ali said Monday, as the only woman on the Constituent Assembly’s drafting committee withdrew from the constitution-drafting […]

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Nov 27, 2012

Morsi tries with the judiciary what he did to the SCAF – and fails

By Michele Dunne

President Mohammed Morsi’s November 22 constitutional decree attempted to do to the judiciary what he did to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in August 2012:  strip it of political power, eliminate its influence over the constituent assembly and constitution, and remove it as an obstacle to his authority.  But Morsi is now […]

MENASource

Nov 26, 2012

The ‘Authoritarian’ Declaration / الإعلان الاستبدادي، لا الدستوري

By Yussef Auf

The 22nd of November will go down in history as the day President Mohammed Morsi issued, not a constitutional decree, but rather an authoritarian decree. Referring to his declaration as constitutional is an infringement on the nation’s very constitution as well as on its laws. At the same time, describing the decree as authoritarian may […]

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