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