Nabil Salib Heads Egypt’s Supreme Electoral Commission

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May 27, 2025

Beyond ceasefires: Reimagining stability and engagement in Libya

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Karim Mezran and Roberta Maggi

With all major political institutions mired in crisis, a renewed approach to peace enforcement is pivotal to building stability.

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Nabil Salib Heads Egypt’s Supreme Electoral Commission

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May 14, 2025

Choppy waters: Egypt’s waning patience with President Trump

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Shahira Amin

The US president’s Suez Canal demands signal “a shift in US-Egyptian relations” which experts describe as “at their lowest ebb in decades.”

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Nabil Salib Heads Egypt’s Supreme Electoral Commission

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Mar 11, 2025

The Mediterranean must work collectively to harness the power of renewables

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Karim Elgendy

The EU Commission’s recent release of its Clean Industrial Deal underscored regional commitment to decarbonization. To capitalize on this momentum, the Mediterranean must engage in cross-border collaboration to overcome geopolitical tension and limited finance to achieve its renewables goals.

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Nabil Salib Heads Egypt’s Supreme Electoral Commission

MENASource
May 16, 2025

The killing of Abdul Ghani al-Kikli may be a turning point for Libya

By
Karim Mezran and Dario Cristiani

The killing is considered to be part of a push to eliminate influential militia leaders and consolidate GNU loyalist control over Tripoli.

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Nabil Salib Heads Egypt’s Supreme Electoral Commission

MENASource
Apr 30, 2025

From Tripoli to Tehran: Lessons from Libya in US-Iran nuclear talks

By
Yaseen Rashed

Twenty-one years later, the nuclear disarmament of Libya serves as a model for the United States in current nuclear negotiations with Iran.

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Nabil Salib Heads Egypt’s Supreme Electoral Commission

MENASource
Apr 16, 2025

Solving Libya’s economic collapse will require confrontation—not consensus

By
Emadeddin Badi

If the status quo continues, the next phase of Libya’s crisis will not be quiet erosion. It will be public revolt.

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Sep 11, 2013

Nabil Salib Heads Egypt’s Supreme Electoral Commission

By Mohamed Elgohari

Egyptian interim president Adly Mansour issued a presidential decree forming the new Supreme Electoral Commission on September 11. The committee will supervise the post-June 30 referendum, as well as the subsequent presidential and parliamentary elections, to be held according to the July 3 road map announced by Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. According to the […]

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 11, 2013

No End in Sight for Libya’s Oil Drama

By Matthew M. Reed

Libyan oil production collapsed this summer after essential facilities were taken over by federalists and disgruntled workers. The country’s economic recovery has been jeopardized as a result. As the Libyan government struggles to control discontent and restore oil output, it reveals how little authority it actually commands.

Libya

MENASource

Sep 11, 2013

An Assassination Attempt Widens the Gap between Egyptians

By Fady Salah

Since Mohamed Morsi’s ouster on July 3, comparisons to Algeria have been common, but they have been eclipsed by comparisons to the low-level insurgency Egypt itself witnessed in the nineties. The recent attempt to assassinate the current minister of interior, Mohamed Ibrahim, is a reminder of that past, and begs two questions – why did […]

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 11, 2013

Top News: Six Soldiers Confirmed Dead in Twin Suicide Bomb Attack on Egyptian Military in Sinai

By EgyptSource

Six soldiers were killed on Wednesday morning in a double suicide car bomb attack at a military intelligence headquarters and a nearby military checkpoint in the northern Sinai town of Rafah.

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Sep 11, 2013

Beyond Benghazi: Libya’s Transition and the Future of US-Libyan Relations

One year after the deadly attack in Benghazi that claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, the Libya Working Group–a joint initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, the Project on Middle East Democracy, and Freedom House–convened a panel discussion to assess developments in Libya and […]

Libya

MENASource

Sep 10, 2013

The Nour Party’s Gamble on the Interim Government

By Sarah El-Rashidi

While emerging unexpectedly in the wake of the January 25 revolution, the Salafist political trend is one of the few Islamist movements still involved in the current political process, in the form of one of one of the largest Salafi political parties – the Nour Party. While giving cover to the current government, with a […]

North Africa

MENASource

Sep 10, 2013

Egypt’s Draft Constitutional Amendments (Part I)

By Yussef Auf

The process of creating Egypt’s 2012 constitution was accompanied by considerable debate—from the formation of the constituent assembly tasked with drafting it to its ratification last December. Up until his ouster, the constitution was one of the major crises facing former President Mohamed Morsi’s regime, so it comes as no surprise that it is a […]

North Africa

Libya Working Group

Sep 10, 2013

Renewing US Engagement with Libya

By MENASource

The Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East together with the Project on Middle East Democracy and Freedom House lead the Libya Working Group, which convenes regular roundtables with experts to discuss a range of political, security, and economic issues in post-Qaddafi Libya.

Libya

Libya Working Group

Sep 10, 2013

Foreign Policy Experts Call on Secretary Kerry to Actively Support Democratic Transition in Libya

One year ago this week, an attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya tragically claimed the lives of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Ambassador Stevens was widely respected as a champion of serious US commitment to Libya and broad engagement with its people. In the year since his death, however, the United […]

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Sep 9, 2013

The West is Accelerating its Strategic Decline

By François Heisbourg, Financial Times

[T]he west was inevitably going to lose some of its ability to set the global agenda and to conduct foreign military operations. This process has been accelerated by the west’s economic slowdown since 2007.

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