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IranSource

Dec 3, 2019

New protests expose widening rift between Iran’s regime and ‘the people’

By Borzou Daragahi

Whether one is navigating past truckers driving along country roads, visiting underground parties in the capital, or holding heated debates with members of different political persuasions in cafes or shared taxis, Iran doesn’t feel like a totalitarian dictatorship.  Forty years after a violent revolution that overturned a small Western-oriented elite, Iranians remain irrepressible and irreverent—as […]

Digital Policy
Iran

AfricaSource

Dec 2, 2019

Sudan’s prime minister comes to Washington

By Cameron Hudson

Thus far, the prime minister has done a poor job of managing the outsized expectations of his people to be out from under Washington’s punitive regime. Many will surely be disappointed when and if he returns home without one of these large deliverables, but Hamdok need not leave Washington empty-handed.

Africa
Civil Society

In the News

Dec 1, 2019

Lindsay Guest Editor and Op-Ed in Urban-X

By Atlantic Council

Civil Society
Digital Policy

In the News

Nov 28, 2019

Bello and Yade in Wathi: N’oublions pas le pastoralisme dans l’agenda climatique

By Atlantic Council

Africa
Climate Change & Climate Action

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Nov 26, 2019

How the exclusion of women has cost Libya

By Emily Burchfield

Libya experts frequently call for greater inclusion of civil society and local governance leaders in peace-building efforts in order for the peace process to be more representative of ordinary Libyans. And yet, Libyan women’s powerful role in civil society and the fact that they make up half of the population of “ordinary Libyans” is often overlooked.

Libya
Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

MENASource

Nov 25, 2019

Stranded on the island of Lesbos, refugees remain in limbo

By Sarah El-Rashidi

The Greek island of Lesbos is a unique island with a symbolic statue of liberty standing tall since 1922. Lesbos became a place for refuge following the Greco-Turkish war of 1919 and today is home to thousands of refugees. Located in the Aegean Sea near the shores of Turkey, the island first became a place […]

Conflict
Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Nov 25, 2019

Kadhim quoted on Politico praising US non-intervention in Iraq protests

By Atlantic Council

Conflict
Iraq
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IranSource

Nov 25, 2019

Iranians endure internet shutdown with despair and disarray

By Khosro Sayeh Isfahani

On November 16, 2019, the Iranian government shut down the Internet throughout the country following a decision to triple the price of fuel overnight.

Digital Policy
Economy & Business

In the News

Nov 22, 2019

The high price of impeachment

By Atlantic Council

For The Hill, Dr. Mathew Burrows, Director of the Atlantic Council's Foresight, Strategy and Risks Initiative, and his Research Associate Julian Mueller-Kaler elaborate on the persistency of populist discourse, the establishment's failure to tackle the phenomenon successfully, and the political price of impeachment.

Corruption
Democratic Transitions

In the News

Nov 21, 2019

Itani writes on Lebanon’s protests for MEI: This complicated country has changed irreversibly

By Atlantic Council

Corruption
Middle East

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