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Apr 29, 2014

FACTBOX: Backlash Over Egypt’s Mass Trials

By EgyptSource

On April 28, another 683 Morsi supporters were sentenced to death in a mass trial before the same Minya judge who sentenced 529 defendants to death late last month. Following is a summary of where each verdict stands, local and international responses to the verdict, as well as the Egyptian government’s response to criticisms of […]

North Africa

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

Iraq’s Maliki, A Third Term?

By Ramzy Mardini

Today, Iraqis head to the polls to take part in the country’s parliamentary elections, the first since the United States completely withdrew its military forces in December 2011. While elections will only initiate the game in shaping the next government in Baghdad, it is the post-election gamesmanship, which involves an interplay of internal and external […]

Iraq

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

Why the US Should Continue Funding Democracy and Governance Programs in Iraq

By Beza Tesfaye

While US policymakers shift away from Iraq, recent events threaten to plunge that country into a new civil war. Sectarian conflict has become a source of chronic tragedy: So far this year, terrorist attacks and bombings have killed over 2,000 civilians. As Iraqis head to the polls in the first election to be held since […]

Iraq
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Trade in Action

Apr 29, 2014

TTIP Action: April 29

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

Top News: Explosions Kill Forty-Five in Homs; Fourteen Dead, Eighty-Six Injured in Damascus

By MENASource

Mortar shells slammed into a religious school campus in central Damascus on Tuesday, killing at least fourteen people and wounding eighty-six. The school, an Islamic law center where students from Syria and abroad study religious jurisprudence, taught students as young as fourteen, but it was not immediately clear if there were children among the dead or wounded. […]

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

Top News: Egyptian and International Groups Condemn Minya Death Sentences

By EgyptSource

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy has called for protests against the death sentences passed against 683 people in Minya on Monday. In a protest against the death sentences in Damietta, a man was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Monday.

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

YemenSource | New NDC Implementation Panel Created

By YemenSource

President Hadi created a new panel to oversee implementation of the outcomes and conclusions of the National Dialogue Conference (NDC). This panel will be comprised of eighty-two delegates who participated in the NDC. The formation of the panel was mandated by the concluding document of the Dialogue, though it remains unclear what specific powers, scope, […]

Yemen

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

EconSource: Tunisia’s currency reserves fall to record low

By EconSource

Follow the latest in economic news and developments about the Arab transition countries. 

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

Syria: Pull Together Resources, Rationalize the Response

By Frederic C. Hof

In a recent panel discussion conducted under Chatham House rules, a United States Senator explained the essence of an absent US leadership role in bringing about political transition in Syria: “to pull together the resources and rationalize the response.”

Syria

MENASource

Apr 29, 2014

Egypt’s Politicized Judiciary Undermining Rule of Law

By MENASource

Yesterday’s mass death sentence for supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi by a local judge in Egypt sparked an uproar among Egyptian activists and international observers. Another judge also banned the April 6 Youth Movement, a key revolutionary actor in the January 2011 uprising.

North Africa
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