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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.

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Top News: The Supreme Constitutional Court Rejects Mekki Proposal to Unify the Judicial Bodies

MENASource
Mar 26, 2026

As Iran attacks, the US should provide air defense for Iraqi Kurdistan

Washington faces a choice: Continue to defer to Baghdad’s procedural objections while Iran conducts unimpeded strikes on Kurdish territory or acknowledge the strategic reality and take decisive action.

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Top News: The Supreme Constitutional Court Rejects Mekki Proposal to Unify the Judicial Bodies

MENASource
Mar 17, 2026

A crisis in Egypt could be a warning sign for the global economy 

By
Khalid Azim

Market watchers should keep an eye on Egypt as an oil shock could cause financial turmoil.

Economy & Business
International Financial Institutions

Top News: The Supreme Constitutional Court Rejects Mekki Proposal to Unify the Judicial Bodies

MENASource
Mar 11, 2026

Three lessons from Libya for the war in Iran

By
Frank Talbot

Any outside power using force to attain a political outcome must define the end state it seeks, align coalition partners around a shared strategy, and establish credible escalation controls.

Conflict
Iran

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Aug 16, 2012

Top News: The Supreme Constitutional Court Rejects Mekki Proposal to Unify the Judicial Bodies

By Egypt Source

A judicial source at the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) rejected the idea of merging judicial bodies coupled with the abolition of the SCC, asserting that this is not permissible in any way and that each competent body considers the issues that fit its mandate. The source added that the SCC has the duty to interpret […]

MENASource

Aug 16, 2012

Review: Bradley Hope’s Last Days of the Pharaoh Paints a Human Picture of Mubarak

By Nancy Messieh

The first thought that comes to mind when reading Bradley Hope’s Last Days of the Pharaoh is that Hosni Mubarak is a human being. Over the past year and a half, this is a fact that has become all too easy to forget. We see him only as the tyrant, so full of arrogant pride […]

MENASource

Aug 15, 2012

Lagarde to Visit Egypt: Is an IMF Program in the Offing?

By Mohsin Khan

The announcement on August 15 that IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde will visit Cairo on August 22 has created considerable speculation that an IMF program will be implemented soon.

North Africa

MENASource

Aug 15, 2012

Top News: Mekki Finalizing Judicial Independence Law

By Egypt Source

Minister of Justice Ahmed Mekki will transfer authority over the Judicial Inspection Directorate from the Ministry of Justice to the Supreme Council of the Judiciary (SCJ), effectively ending one of the main ways the executive branch controlled the judiciary. 

MENASource

Aug 15, 2012

Morsi’s Check, Not a Checkmate

By Tarek Radwan

President Mohamed Morsi delivered a tremendously game-changing blow to the military with the dismissal of defense minister and head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi along with his chief of staff Sami Anan. The broad reshuffle of Egypt’s security personnel and the SCAF set activists, think-tanks, and egyptophiles ablaze […]

MENASource

Aug 14, 2012

Tantawi and Anan’s Appearance at the Presidential Palace Signals their Acceptance of a Forced Retirement

By Nancy Messieh

Most signs pointed towards former Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi and former Chief of Staff Sami Anan quietly accepting their dismissal at the hands of President Mohamed Morsi on Monday. Their acquiescence is now confirmed after appearing at the presidential palace to receive medals of honor, presented to them by Morsi himself.

MENASource

Aug 14, 2012

Libya: The Election of Magarief and National Reconciliation

By Karim Mezran

The election of Mohammed Magarief as president of Libya’s General National Congress on August 10 is a sign of the Libyan people’s search for unity and will to continue on the path toward democratization. Despite increasing security problems and the many centrifugal pressures present in the Libyan polity, the Congress managed to elect a president […]

Libya

MENASource

Aug 14, 2012

Top News: Morsy Has No Intentions to Reinstate Parliament, Spokesperson Says

By Egypt Source

President Mohamed Morsy has no intentions to reinstate the dissolved Parliament, presidential spokesperson Yasser Ali said Monday. Ali said the parliamentary elections would be held within two months of the completion of the new constitution. 

MENASource

Aug 13, 2012

On Paper Morsi is More Powerful Than Mubarak and Tantawi Put Together

By Nancy Messieh

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces’ (SCAF) official Facebook page featured one new post on Monday: a CV of sorts detailing the 35 year military career of the new SCAF leader and Minister of Defense, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The post signals that President Mohamed Morsi’s  move on August 12, forcing SCAF heavyweights, Field Marshal Hussein […]

MENASource

Aug 13, 2012

Top News: Egypt Military Shows No Sign Of Opposing President

By Egypt Source

Egypt’s military has shown no sign of opposing the president’s surprise decision to retire the defense minister and chief of staff and seize back the powers the military grabbed from his office. Nearly a full day after the order, no unusual military movements were reported anywhere across the nation. 

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