Summary: the overthrow of President Morsi launched a new model of repression in Egypt, one that seeks not to manage dissent but to obliterate it.
Summary: the overthrow of President Morsi launched a new model of repression in Egypt, one that seeks not to manage dissent but to obliterate it.
Summary: Iraq’s water security is poor and – absent urgent action – is set to get much worse.
Summary: after eight months in office the Iraqi prime minister can point to a period of calm, increased FDI and a building boom in Baghdad as signs that his country is moving in the right direction but many Iraqis do not share his optimism.
Summary: the new Saudi Census 2022 is billed as the most advanced one yet but critics denounce it as a gross manipulation of data and an attempt to rewrite history.
Summary: Western governments have a long history of covering up for Arab dictators. The latest Home Office information notes on Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood show a new twist in an old story.
Summary: as his allies and former Arab critics rally around the Syrian president he is using the lure of lucrative reconstruction contracts to strengthen his position.
Summary: with the country’s economic crisis deepening and President Kais Saied continuing to chart an erratic and increasingly dictatorial course the World Bank lowers the boom.
Summary: as Washington pushes forward on a UN plan for an election this year in Libya, the Biden administration once again dictates that personalities rather than the interests of the Libyan people will prevail.
Summary: the conventional wisdom among critics in the West remains that erroneous assumptions led to the war and once it ended a series of blunders entrenched chaos and violence; Renad Mansour offers a more nuanced perspective.
