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Moroccan King Visits White House
Photo Credit: The Maghreb Daily King of Morocco Mohammed VI visited President Barack Obama at the White House on Friday. According to Vish Sakthivel, of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy,...
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Senators Menendez and Corker Introduce Egypt Aid Amendment
Photo Credit: Pete Marovich / Bloomberg On Thursday, Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Bob Corker (R-TN) introduced amendment 2522 to S. 1197, the Senate version of the National Defense...
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Iran, P5+1 Reach Preliminary Deal
Photo Credit: US State Department/AFP The White House has released a fact sheet confirming that the P5+1 “has been engaged in serious and substantive negotiations with Iran with the goal for reaching a...
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Egyptian President Signs Anti-Protest Law
Photo Credit: New York Times Egypt’s interim president, Adly Mansour, signed into law the controversial anti-protest law that human rights groups say will “severely curtail freedom of assembly, and...
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Baghdad Mosques Close Protesting Lack of Security
Photo Credit: Nabil al-Jurani/AP Iraqi Sunni religious leaders called for all Sunni mosques in Baghdad to close down indefinitely in protest of recent violence targeted at Sunni religious leaders and...
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POMED Notes: SFRC Hearing “African Political, Economic and Security Issues”
Photo Credit: George Bajalia and Toshiro Baum On Thursday, November 21, 2013 the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs held a hearing titled,...
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Tunisian Journalist, Rapper Receives 4-month Reprieve on Sentence
Photo Credit: Reuters/Zoubeir Souissi Hind Meddeb, a French-Tunisian journalist and Aymen Fekish, a rapper commonly known as Men-Ay, received a four-month suspension on their sentences. The two were...
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Algeria Opposition Parties Demand Independent Election Commission
Photo Credit: UN Photo/Steve Tickner According to the Associated Press, a group of secular and Islamist opposition parties in Algeria have signed a statement calling for April’s presidential elections...
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Protests Erupt in Egypt Challenging New Protest Law
Photo Credit: Sabry Khaled/AP Following the introduction of the new and controversial protest law that restricts the demonstrators ability to easily organize, the Egyptian police cracked down on...
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Libyan Militia, Army Clash After Government Announces Offensive
Photo Credit: REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori Libya’s army has declared a “state of alert” and ordered all troops to report for duty, according to Al Arabiya. The announcement came after the military...
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Bahraini Government Claims 26 BICI Achievements
Photo Credit: AFP According to the state run Bahrain News Agency, the Government of Bahrain said, “it was implementing the recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI),”...
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Egypt Constituent Assembly Finalizes Draft Charter
Photo Credit: Voice of America A draft of Egypt’s new constitution has been publicly released and made available online. The next step in legalizing the draft constitution is for Egypt’s interim...
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Tunisia NCA Restarts Work; Protesters Clash with Police
Photo Credit: AFP Tunisia Live reported that the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) restarted committee meetings without opposition members “after the assembly overturned problematic changes to its...
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Libyan Government Blames Protesters for Power Outages
Photo Credit: Arab News According to Reuters, the Libyan government blamed minority groups, who are protesting for more political rights, for power outages that have reached numerous parts of the...
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POMED Notes: “The Birth of Arab Democracy: Can Tunisia serve as a Model?”
Photo Credit: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters On Monday, December 1, 2013 the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hosted an event titled “The Birth of Arab Democracy: Can Tunisia serve as a Model?” The...
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Palestinian Teachers Go On Strike Against PA
Photo Credit: Reuters/Nayef Hashlamoun According to Daoud Kuttab, a journalist at Al-Monitor, Palestinian teachers in the West Bank went on strike claiming that the Palestinian Authority (PA) was...
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Libya GNC Votes Sharia as Basis for Law
Photo Credit: Reuters / Ismail Zitouny Libya’s General National Congress (GNC) voted to make Sharia law the foundation of all legislation and state institutions in the country. Al Jazeera reported the...
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Egyptian Activists Set to Face Trials
Photo Credit: Al Ahram ABCNews is reporting that Ahmed Douma and Ahmed Maher are set to face trial following their arrests last week. The hearings would be the first prosecuted under the new protest...
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Moroccan NGO’s Criticize Ruling Coalition over Women’s Rights Bill
Photo Credit: Reuters Women’s rights and human rights nongovernmental organizations have criticized the Islamist Party of Justice and Development led coalition for not including women rights activists...
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Yemen May Postpone Southern Issue; Defense Ministry Attacked
Photo Credit: Atlantic Council Mohammed al-Hassani, of the Yemen Times, reports that members within the 8+8 Subcommittee tasked with reaching consensus on the “Southern Issue” are urging for a final...
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