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ARAB SPRING – Ten years after the Arab Spring (Al Jazeera)

Ten years after Arabs mobilised in their millions, we take a retrospective look at the media’s role and the damage that has been done...

EU PARLIAMENT/EGYPT – EU Parliament calls for action over Egypt’s human rights abuses (Al Jazeera)

The European Parliament has passed a resolution urging member states to consider imposing targeted restrictions against Egypt for its crackdown on human rights activists. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/19/eu-parliament-passes-resolution-over-egypts-human-rights-abuses

ARAB SPRING/TUNISIA – Moncef Marzouki: Has the Tunisian revolution succeeded? (Al Jazeera)

It has been 10 years since a Tunisian fruit seller set himself on fire in protest against police who had beaten him and seized...

AUTHORITARIANISM – How Huntington and Fukuyama got the 21st century wrong (Howard Brasted, Shafi Mostofa, Al Jazeera)

What is going on in the 21st-century world of international politics? With very few exceptions, national elections are revealing degrees of partisanship and ideological...

SUDAN – Sudanese demand ‘justice’ two years after protests erupted (Al Arabiya)

Thousands of demonstrators marched through Sudanese towns on Saturday calling for change, two years since the start of a protest movement that led to...

CANADA/USA – Huawei exec’s lawyers open new front in extradition trial: Report (Al Arabiya)

Canada would violate international law by extraditing a Huawei executive to the United States, her lawyers argue in new documents cited by the Canadian...

LEBANON – Why Hezbollah is losing the support of Lebanon’s Shia community (Hanin Ghaddar, Al Arabiya)

Hezbollah’s adventurism in Syria and the wider region has alienated the support of many Lebanese Shia. The organization has also lost its military discipline...

USA/YEMEN – President-elect Joe Biden can help end the war in Yemen (Khaled H. Alyemany, Atlantic Council)

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/president-elect-joe-biden-can-help-end-the-war-in-yemen/

WEST/CHINA – Global Strategy 2021: An Allied Strategy for China (Matthew Kroenig and Jeffrey Cimmino, Atlantic Council)

This paper benefited from discussions in the Atlantic Council’s Strategy Consortium, a forum that brings together strategists from diverse sectors—think tanks, academia, government, and the private sector—to...

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