Rached Ghannouchi and Tunisia’s Transition
Last week, my colleague Ed Husain and I hosted a meeting with Rached Ghannouchi—the cofounder and president of Tunisia’s Islamist Nahda party—at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. The audio...
View ArticleYouth Unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa
As the graph makes painfully clear, the Middle East and North Africa face significant challenges when it comes to youth unemployment. A World Economic Forum report from 2012 notes, “Unemployment in the...
View ArticleA User’s Guide to Democratic Transitions
Let’s face it: Democracy is struggling. Sure, it surged after the fall of the Berlin Wall, reaching a high-water mark in the first years of the 21st century with various inspirational “colored”...
View ArticleInclusive Economic Growth and Brazil’s Protests
Brazil’s weeklong protests, which have brought hundreds of thousands of people into the streets across the country, have scored their first victory: officials in the major cities of Sao Paolo and Rio...
View ArticleEgypt’s Protests: Three Things to Know
Isobel Coleman, CFR’s senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy, highlights three things to know about the political upheaval in Egypt. Watch the video here.
View ArticleWill Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood survive?
In a stunning reversal of fortunes, Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsy was deposed by a military coup just one year after being sworn in as president. The Egyptian protesters who took to the streets by...
View ArticleDrafting Discord: Why Egypt’s next constitution won’t fulfill the democratic...
In the midst of violence and counter-revolution, Egypt’s military-backed government is about to present a new constitution to the people — the country’s second in a year. On Dec. 1, a 50-member...
View ArticleEgypt’s deeply flawed draft constitution
Egypt’s constitutional assembly pulled an all-nighter last week to hastily approve a controversial draft of a new constitution. However, the constitutional battle is far from over. Yesterday, protests...
View ArticleBeating Boko Haram: Why It Attacks Schools — And How to Fight Back
The abduction last month of 276 schoolgirls in northeastern Nigeria by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has become international news. In a video that surfaced this week, Boko Haram’s leader...
View ArticleHow terrible is it to be born a girl?
How terrible is it to be born a girl in the world today? The almost daily headlines about another cruel act of violence and discrimination against women — from the kidnapping of nearly 300 school girls...
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