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Sunday, September 8, 2024
La abstención protagoniza las elecciones argelinas en las que el actual presidente barre con el 94,65% de los votos

“La indiferencia es una señal del debilitamiento de la democracia. El país, como muchos otros de la región, está retrocediendo en cuanto a indicadores democráticos”, señala a El Independiente Dalia Ghanem, investigadora del think tank Middle East Council on Global Affairs.

Dalia Ghanem
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels are looking to gain from continuing conflict in the Middle East

According to Faozi al-Goidi, a fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, the rebels are not likely to be deterred anytime soon and could also target vessels further out in the Indian Ocean.

Faozi Al-Goidi
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Does Israel have an end game?

Omar H. Rahman
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Ground Offensive Begins in Lebanon

Omar H. Rahman
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Arab Think Tank Network launched

The Middle East and North Africa (Mena) Think Tank Forum, co-hosted by the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (ME Council) and the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut, concluded successfully in Doha on September 24.

Monday, September 23, 2024
Was the latest escalation in Lebanon inevitable?

Omar H. Rahman
Friday, September 20, 2024
Can there be any hope for true democracy in Algeria, if no one trusts the vote?

Can there be any hope for true democracy in Algeria, if no one trusts the vote?

Dalia Ghanem
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
History As It Happens: 1967 and the West Bank today

In this episode of History As It Happens, Omar Rahman of the Middle East Council on Global Affairs explains how Israel’s occupation of the West Bank functions with its two separate justice systems — one for Jews, one for Arabs — more than 50 years after the Jewish state took control of the land in the Six-Day War in June 1967.

Omar H. Rahman
Friday, September 13, 2024
Killing of Turkish-American Activist Aysenur Ezgi-Aegi by Israel

Galip Dalay