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MENASource

Jul 22, 2015

Top News: Right to Information Law to Criminalize Spreading Rumors on Social Networks

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s cabinet will reportedly begin discussing the final draft of the new Right to Information Law next week, upon Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab’s return from a trip to Italy.

New Atlanticist

Jul 22, 2015

Communications, Public Diplomacy, and National Security

By Mark Seip

Part One: Understanding the evolution of audiences (Note: This article is taken from a forthcoming report by the Atlantic Council on public diplomacy and its role in national security due to be released this fall.) Much has been written about public diplomacy in the 21st century and its need to evolve. In order to do […]

MENASource

Jul 22, 2015

EconSource: UAE to Scrap Subsidized Price Controls on Fuel

By EconSource

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said it would said it would do away with fuel price controls in a politically sensitive reform that could save the government billions of dollars. Authorities plan to begin linking fuel prices to global prices as of August 1.

UkraineAlert

Jul 22, 2015

We Are All Ukrainians Now

By Diane M. Francis

My first visit to Ukraine was in February 1992 and the City of Kyiv was gray, bleak and joyless as was the rest of the Soviet Union. Last month I re-visited—23 years and several other assignments later—to find a new nation of extremes. There is prosperity and there is poverty; there is peace and war; […]

Ukraine

MENASource

Jul 21, 2015

Egypt through the Lens of the State Department’s Terrorism Reports

By Elissa Miller

The Department of State (DOS) recently released its 2014 Country Reports on Terrorism, offering an in-depth look at terrorism around the world and efforts various countries are taking aimed at its eradication. Several trends can be identified from the 2014 reports’ discussion of terrorism and counterterrorism efforts in Egypt, which are especially relevant given a […]

North Africa

Europe After The Vote

Jul 21, 2015

The Greek Debt Crisis—Latest Developments

By Demetrios Papageorgiou

This time last week, Greece faced an ultimatum: enact a laundry list of economic reforms—known as “prior actions”—by July 15 in order to start negotiations on the country’s third financing program in five years, or face expulsion from the nineteen-member currency union. Determined to keep the euro, even in the face of new austerity, the […]

Greece

New Atlanticist

Jul 21, 2015

Taking the War on the Islamic State Online

By Alexa Lipke

The media frenzy surrounding the rise of the Islamic State (IS) focuses heavily on the United States’ military strategy. But since IS’ influence transcends the battlefields of Iraq and Syria, it is equally important that the United States develop a coherent strategy to counter the group’s social media reach. The twenty-four-hour news cycle and the […]

MENASource

Jul 21, 2015

Top News: Prominent Libyans Face EU Sanctions

By MENASource

European Union (EU) foreign ministers met yesterday in Brussels to try and push forward the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Peace Accord. The EU is looking at preparing asset freezes and travel bans against five named Libyans.

MENASource

Jul 21, 2015

ISIS Attempts to Shake the Gulf

By Mona Alami

Another suicide bombing has shaken the Gulf region, as young Saudi Abdallah Fahd Abdallah Rashid blew himself up at a checkpoint in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on July 16. Rashid conducted the bombing just after killing his uncle, a colonel with the Saudi Ministry of Interior.

International Organizations Iran

MENASource

Jul 21, 2015

Top News: Sexual Harassers in 340 Reports Released After Girls Failed to Sign Police Report

By EgyptSource

Perpetrators of sexual harassment in 340 incidents during the first day of Eid al-Fitr, mostly verbal, were reportedly released because the women who were harassed did not go to police stations to sign the police reports.

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