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MENASource

Jul 31, 2013

Part II: Can the Transitional Government Turn the Egyptian Economy Around?

By Mohsin Khan

Transitional governments can be very weak, since they have no popular mandate, or very strong, since they do not have to face the electorate when their term ends. To arrest the decline of the economy and put it on a trajectory of high growth and job creation, Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi’s government will have to […]

Economy & Business North Africa

MENASource

Jul 31, 2013

What the Third Square Represents

By Mai El-Sadany

Colored by General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s call to fight terrorism through a popular mandate that brought millions to the streets, Egypt is witnessing a deepened polarization of the political scene. The increasingly-armed and charged Muslim Brotherhood sit-in that is now solidly going into its second month has added to this tension, contributing to the emergence […]

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Jul 30, 2013

Hezbollah, Iran Pay Price for Syria Role

By Barbara Slavin

Two years after President Barack Obama confidently predicted a swift demise for Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president seems relatively secure. Pro-regime forces have clawed back swaths of key territory as the opposition splinters into hundreds of rebel groups.

Iran Iraq

MENASource

Jul 30, 2013

Part I: Can the Transitional Government Turn the Egyptian Economy Around?

By Mohsin Khan

Since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in January 2011, the Egyptian economy has been struggling. While much of the blame for the economic problems that the country is facing is directed at the Morsi government that took office in June 2012, the decline started over a year earlier. Indeed, in many respects economic performance under the […]

Economy & Business North Africa

Trade in Action

Jul 30, 2013

Want World Domination? Size Matters

By Garrett Workman

News The One Solution to Unemployment That Our Leaders Clearly Haven’t Thought Of | PolicyMicA successful conclusion of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment partnership would provide an unparalleled opportunity to boost economic growth and production. TTIP would provide a sizeable boost to household income on either side of the Atlantic. But if the two blocks […]

MENASource

Jul 30, 2013

Syrian Refugees: The Latest Target of Xenophobic Fervor

By Amira Mikhail

Only a few days after former President Mohamed Morsi was ousted by the Egyptian armed forces, more than 200 Syrians refugees were deported from Cairo airport. Egyptian authorities had laid down new regulations for Syrians entering the country only hours before they arrived, sending them back to the Syrian town of Latakia, their point of […]

North Africa Syria

MENASource

Jul 30, 2013

Top News: Eighty killed, 299 Injured in Cairo’s Nasr City Violence

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s Ministry of Health announced that at least eighty were killed and 299 injured in Nasr City district’s violence in the early hours of Saturday. Doctors at the field hospital of the massive pro-Morsi sit-in in Nasr City said at least 200 protesters were killed and 4,500 injured from, most of whom they say were fatally shot.

North Africa

New Atlanticist

Jul 29, 2013

Zimbabwe’s Irrelevant Election

By Bronwyn Bruton

Elections scheduled for Wednesday in Zimbabwe are shaping up to be an absolute disaster. They were organized on short notice and without adequate budget, so promise to be plagued with irregularities. Some will be deliberate—the ruling party is expected to rig the vote and violently harass the political opposition—but enormous lines, unprinted ballots, and disorganized […]

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

NATOSource

Jul 29, 2013

Some NATO Allies Concerned about Turkey’s Satellite Launching Center

By Burak Ege Bekdil, Defense News

Turkey has approved construction of its first satellite launching center to cater for the country’s mushrooming satellite programs. But Ankara’s western allies worry that the Turks intend to use their own launching pad to fire the long-range missiles they hope to build in the medium- to long-run.

Missile Defense Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jul 28, 2013

Turkey-Syria-Kurdish Fronts Heat Up

By Ross Wilson

Reports that Turkish F-16s will fly reconnaissance flights along the Syrian frontier highlight rising alarm over border security and suggest a further internationalization of the civil war in Syria with implications for it, Turkey, and the region’s Kurds.

Intelligence Security & Defense
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