خلق الحوار. التأثير على السياسة.
Generating Dialogue. Impacting Policy.
Early November 2018, the Kurdistan Parliament duly held its first session for the members to take oath. Like their Iraqi counterparts, the parliamentarians kept the session open, a gambit that stalls government formation deadlines until the parties are ready to agree.
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Despite limited media coverage of the uprising in Sudan and the Omar al-Bashir regime’s subsequent efforts at repression, the popularity of these uprisings is increasing day by day, spreading across many of the largest cities in the country.
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David Pollock, Catherine Cleveland, and Mohamed Abdelaziz
President Donald Trump’s sudden December 19 announcement via Twitter that the United States would withdraw its troops from Syria took much of the world by surprise. Notably, Arab officials are avoiding any explicit criticism of Trump’s latest shift.
Just as President Trump’s announced decision to withdraw troops from Syria has garnered intense analysis from American media, the media outlets of regional actors involved in Syria are similarly occupied discussing likely scenarios for the country's future.
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In November, Secretary-general Haba El-Okb gave a speech on behalf of the Algerian President acknowledging Algeria’s widespread issue of corruption at a provincial governors’ conference held in Algiers. Through his proxy, Bouteflika warned that “bribery, nepotism, suffering, and iniquitous bureaucratic maneuvering—these ills have festered in the body of our society, and become crippling parasites.”
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New findings from a reliable Egyptian public opinion poll reveal very divided popular attitudes, both about the country’s domestic direction and about its outside partners. Yet Egyptians mostly agree with their government on several key foreign policy issues.
