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Geneive Abdo

Former Brookings Expert

Visiting Fellow , Brookings Doha Center

Yahia H. Zoubir

Former Brookings Expert

Professor & Director , Research in Geopolitics, KEDGE Business School

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Tarik M. Yousef

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy

Director - Brookings Doha Center

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Research

Muscat, Oman.- In photos taken on November 13, 2020, it shows the streets of Muscat during the coronavirus pandemic. Oman has received $ 1 billion in direct financial aid from Qatar, at a time when the sultanate is trying to mitigate its economic crisis, which has been exacerbated by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and falling oil prices.

Report

Oman, Ten Years After the Arab Spring: The Evolution of State-Society Relations

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

People are seen, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt January 5, 2021. Picture taken January 5, 2021. REUTERS/Ahmed Fahmy

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Policy and Institutional Responses to COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa: Egypt

Robert P. Beschel Jr.

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Hand Out photo dated Auguts 26, 2020 of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), not pictured, executes a passing exercise with Turkish Navy frigates TCG Barbaros (FF 244) and Burgazada (F 513) in the Mediterranean Sea. Tension is simmering in the waters of the Eastern Mediterranean as Greece and Turkey, NATO allies but historic rivals, inch toward a possible military confrontation that could end up engulfing the region. Naval vessels from both countries made a show of force in the contested region of the Eastern Mediterranean this week as a race for gas and oil reserves adds a new point of friction to old disputes. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Louis Thompson Staats IV via ABACAPRESS.COM

Report

Turkey, Europe, and the Eastern Mediterranean: Charting a way out of the current deadlock

Galip Dalay

Thursday, January 28, 2021

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Blog Posts

Moroccan protesters hold up posters of Maati Monjib, a Moroccan professor of political history, to support him during a demonstration in the capital, Rabat, October 21, 2015. Monjib started a second hunger strike last Wednesday after authorities banned him from boarding a plane to Norway for an international conference on journalism in Lillehammer. The sign reads, "Even if you use repression, your intimidation is useless". REUTERS/Stringer

Order from Chaos

The arrest of Maati Monjib and the continued retreat of human rights in Morocco

Adel Abdel Ghafar

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

FILE PHOTO: The Committee to Protect Journalists and other press freedom activists hold a candlelight vigil in front of the Saudi Embassy to mark the anniversary of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul, Wednesday evening in Washington, U.S., October 2, 2019. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger/File Photo

Up Front

GCC News Roundup: US report finds Saudi crown prince approved Khashoggi murder, Gulf states impose new restrictions to stem virus surge (February 1-28)

Monday, March 8, 2021

A member of Hashd al-Shaabi (paramilitary forces) holds a flag of Kataib Hezbollah militia group during a protest to condemn air strikes on their bases, in Baghdad, Iraq December 31, 2019. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily

Order from Chaos

Biden’s decision to strike Iran’s proxies is a good start

Ranj Alaaldin

Friday, February 26, 2021

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Op-Eds

A view shows the Arab Maghreb Union countries foreign ministers meeting in Algiers, July 9, 2012. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi (ALGERIA - Tags: POLITICS)

Op-Ed

BDC Snapshots: Intra-regional economic integration would boost Maghreb economies

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Thursday, March 4, 2021

A young protester makes a victory sign as he took part in anti-government demonstration held on Avenue Habib Bourguiba in the capital Tunis, to protest against the government of the prime minister Hichem Mechichi, and in support of the protest movements that hit Tunisia in several cities overnight over the past few days. Protesters clashed with the security forces who fired tear gas and used pepper spray in attempt to disperse them. They also claimed for the release of youths arrested by the police during the latest protests, and denounced the high cost of living and the increase in poverty. Tunisia, on January 19, 2021. Un jeune manifestant fait le signe de victoire alors qu'il participe a une manifestation anti-gouvernementale qui se tient sur l'avenue Habib Bourguiba dans la capitale Tunis, pour protester contre le gouvernement du premier ministre Hichem Mechichi, et pour soutenir les mouvements de protestation qui ont touche la Tunisie dans plusieurs villes dans la nuit de ces derniers jours. Les manifestants se sont heurtes aux forces de l'ordre qui ont tire le gaz lacrymogene et intervenu au gaz poivre pour tenter de les disperser. Ils ont egalement reclame la liberation des jeunes arretes par la police lors des dernieres manifestations, et denonce le cout eleve de la vie et l'augmentation de la pauvrete. Tunisie, le 19 janvier 2021.NO USE FRANCE

Op-Ed

BDC Snapshots: Tunisia’s persistent economic woes may endanger its fledgling democracy

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Monday, February 1, 2021

Op-Ed

BDC Snapshots: Neutral Oman is clear winner of Gulf crisis and resolution

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

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Events

Getting to accountability: The role of diasporas in transitional justice in MENA

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A decade of protests: Why governance reform is critical in the Arab World

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM AST

After the Al-Ula Summit: Prospects for a GCC Rapprochement

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM AST

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Brookings Doha Center

One year of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa: The fate of the ‘best performers’

Economic diversification in the Gulf: Time to redouble efforts

Picking up the pieces: The path to Gulf reconciliation

Heavy lies the crown: The survival of Arab monarchies, 10 years after the Arab Spring

Experts

Geneive Abdo

Former Brookings Expert

Visiting Fellow , Brookings Doha Center

Yahia H. Zoubir

Former Brookings Expert

Professor & Director , Research in Geopolitics, KEDGE Business School

Tarik M. Yousef

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy

Director - Brookings Doha Center

Research

Oman, Ten Years After the Arab Spring: The Evolution of State-Society Relations

Policy and Institutional Responses to COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa: Egypt

Turkey, Europe, and the Eastern Mediterranean: Charting a way out of the current deadlock

Blog Posts

The arrest of Maati Monjib and the continued retreat of human rights in Morocco

GCC News Roundup: US report finds Saudi crown prince approved Khashoggi murder, Gulf states impose new restrictions to stem virus surge (February 1-28)

Biden’s decision to strike Iran’s proxies is a good start

Op-Eds

BDC Snapshots: Intra-regional economic integration would boost Maghreb economies

BDC Snapshots: Tunisia’s persistent economic woes may endanger its fledgling democracy

BDC Snapshots: Neutral Oman is clear winner of Gulf crisis and resolution

Events

Getting to accountability: The role of diasporas in transitional justice in MENA

A decade of protests: Why governance reform is critical in the Arab World

After the Al-Ula Summit: Prospects for a GCC Rapprochement