Lyse Doucet | 24 October 2019 | AR | TR
Tunisia experienced a long electoral season that began in late August and ended in mid-October 2019. The elections not only resulted in the revamp of state institutions, but also shook the country and sent it into a completely different stage.
Yasser Fathy | 16 October 2019 | AR | TR
/ / Executive Summary The disruption of the Raba‘a sit-in protest in August 2013 came as [...]
Ezzeddine Abdelmoula | 03 October 2019 | AR | TR
On September 17th, 2019 the Tunisian Independent Electoral Commission announced the result of the first round of the presidential elections. The result sent shockwaves across the entire political spectrum, particularly surprising the political parties in power.
Alexey Khlebnikov | 24 September 2019 | TR | AR
Egypt arguably numbers among Russia’s strongest allies in the Middle East. Since first seizing power through a coup d’état in 2013, AbdelFateh al-Sisi has regularly been seen in the company of President Vladimir Putin
Tarek Chamkhi | 10 September 2019 | AR | TR
Tunisia’s fragile democracy has been able to survive against all odds, despite being situated amidst a region full of turmoil and civil wars
Khairi Omar | 30 April 2019 | AR | TR
Following the removal of former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir from power, debates have erupted over the future of the Islamist movement in Sudan
James M. Dorsey | 27 December 2018 | TR | AR
If any one part of the world has forced China to throw its long-standing foreign and defense policy principles out the window and increasingly adopt attitudes associated with a global power, it is the greater Middle East, a region that stretches from the Atlantic coast of Africa to north-western China.
Chafic Choucair | 07 December 2018
This paper examines the role of the jihadi movement’s "ulema" and its future, particularly in light of the dialectical relationship that links them with jihadi discourse and jihadi movements.
Zeynep Koc | 21 November 2018 | TR | AR
The Khashoggi case showed that Turkey’s role and leadership in the MENA region cannot be outsourced to other powers like Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which means both the US and Turkey need to acknowledge and address each other’s key concerns.
Ranj Alaaldin | 03 October 2018 | TR
This paper establishes the extent to which armed non-state actors can be integrated into governance structures and the political orders they have ferociously contested in recent years
