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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...

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Youth 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...

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A 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”...

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Inclusive 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...

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Egypt’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.

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Will 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...

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Drafting 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...

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Egypt’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...

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Beating 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...

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How 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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