Fast unravelling post-Arab spring events exposed limits of neo-liberal idealism, prompting Obama towards \’pragmatic\’ adjustments in polic A New Beginning was the title of US President Barack Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech in... Read more »
Government is entangled in complications stemming from system dominated by political parties struggling with their own weaknesses. Tunis – If Tunisia were to pursue the same measures for a long time without... Read more »
In 1971, 16-year-old Said Ferjani met Rachid Ghannouchi, his Arabic language teacher, for the first time. From that point onward Ferjani’s life would be tied to Ghannouchi and the religious and political... Read more »
COLUMN-Why Ukraine’s NATO membership is not in America’s interests (Josh Cohen is a former USAID project officer involved in managing economic reform projects in the former Soviet Union. The opinions expressed are... Read more »
Sunil John is the founder and chief executive of ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller. He has been at the heart of the public relations business in the Middle East for more than two decades. During... Read more »
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon says the document ensures the commitment of Saudi Arabia, which doesn’t have formal ties with Israel, to adhere to terms of Israel-Egypt peace treaty. Israel’s freedom of passage... Read more »
The Ennahda party was widely seen as a threat to Tunisia’s democratic transition. Instead, it helped drive it forward. Earlier this week, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Tunisia to attend the country’s... Read more »
Some officials in Europe see Russia’s hand in the rising migration crisis, accusing the Kremlin of exacerbating anti-Muslim sentiment to benefit right-wing parties at a fragile moment for the European Union. Even... Read more »
After the Jasmine Revolution of 2011, young people began disappearing from neighborhoods like Douar Hicher, a poor suburb of Tunis. It is estimated that between six and seven thousand Tunisians have gone... Read more »
The quagmire that is contemporary Syria is as infinitely complex as it was when it emerged from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. Its medley of cultures and ethnicities coexisted peaceably under... Read more »