Who will save Tunisia’s democracy?
Tunisia’s president has been carrying out a creeping coup, demolishing the country’s hard-fought democratic gains bit by bit. With an economy in turmoil and a splintered opposition, is there… Read more »
Category: Middle East/North Africa
Defying Taliban, Afghan women protest to demand rights
Afghan women and girls demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Education in Kabul on March 26, 2022, demanding that high schools be reopened for girls. (Photo by Ahmad SAHEL… Read more »
‘Breaking the Impasse’? Jordan’s democratic reforms
Jordan is currently wrestling with a bold timeline of democratic reforms introduced by a royal commission in October 2021 and ratified by parliament in January, notes a new report from… Read more »
Tunisia: From nascent democracy to nascent dictatorship?
Without the amplifying force of smaller parties & powerful civil society groups, esp @UGTT_TN, Citizens Against the Coup’s roadmap to restore Tunisia’s constitutional order will be a dead letter, @MonicaLMarks… Read more »
Afghanistan: Money cannot win hearts and minds.
Why did the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan collapse so suddenly? Tens of thousands of people flooding the Kabul airport to escape the Taliban’s rapid advance prompted foreign policy analysts to… Read more »
‘World’s Best Protesters, World’s Worst Democrats’?
In the first of a new video series from the Project on Middle East Democracy, “Between the Lines,” leading Egypt scholar and New York University professor Mona El-Ghobashy discusses her new… Read more »
Balkans ‘solidarity countries’ welcome Afghan refugees
A group of 67 Afghan citizens, employees of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as well as their family members, arrived at the Skopje… Read more »
‘Erdogan’s End Game’: Undermine Turkish democracy to retain power?
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian populism has lost its magic, notes Soner Cagaptay, a Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of A Sultan… Read more »
‘Wallowing in political uncertainty’: Can Tunisia forge a new democratic bargain?
As Saied steers #Tunisia toward a national dialogue & constitutional referendum that critics say may cement his authoritarian rule, pressure is growing on him to fulfill his pledge. https://t.co/SbbYhuZb1t —… Read more »
‘Refusal not an option’: Why Albania opened its doors to Afghan refugees
Albania was one of the first nations to throw open its doors to Afghans when the Taliban took over on August 15. Within hours, Prime Minister Edi Rama had announced… Read more »