Tunisia and Libya recently took diverging tracks in their political transitions. A USIP field mission to both countries to meet with political and civil society leaders
The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon continues to grow amid continuing speculations that the violence is likely to continue in Syria.
For decades, human rights defenders across the Arab region have relied on foreign resources rather than local funding to support human rights initiatives.
While some analysts perceived Rouhani’s presidential victory as a subtle maneuver, others looked at it as a belated fulfillment of the 2009 “Green Revolution.”
The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon continues to grow amid continuing speculations that the violence is likely to continue in Syria.
The Arab region has experienced a number of historical developments in the last two years, a dynamic of change unseen since the 1950s. Analyzing the whereabouts of this dynamic might be pretentious for a grantmaking organization like the Arab Human Rights Fund (AHRF);
Posted on December 6, 2012 by IHRFG
Only three decades ago, the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in filling the gaps resulting from the public sector’s shortcomings was intensively debated in a context of extreme caution (by governmental stakeholders).
USIP’s Elie Abouaoun, based in the Institute’s Baghdad office, discusses the al-Sadr movement – and why it once again stands to be a destabilizing force in Iraq and region.
This paper is not meant to be a thorough analysis or to bring answers to complex questions. It was written more as a food for thought about major and almost unprecedented political developments in the region.