Brookings Doha Center Publications

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President Donald Tusk, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President of Egypt and Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Arab League's secretary general, attend a news conference during a summit between Arab league and European Union member states, in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, February 25, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany - RC1A493D83D0

Mapping European leverage in the MENA region: Egypt

Adel Abdel Ghafar

December, 2019

Spanish civil guards are seen during an operation in which they arrested two people accused of connections with Islamic militants, in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta, January 13, 2017. REUTERS/Jesus Moron - RC1F0ED06740

Mapping European Leverage in the MENA region: Morocco

Yasmina Abouzzohour

December 2019

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh speaks during a cabinet meeting of the new Palestinian government, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 15, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman - RC18BBEC7170

From confusion to clarity: Three pillars for revitalizing the Palestinian national movement

Thursday, December 12, 2019

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Beijing calling: Assessing China’s growing footprint in North Africa

Adel Abdel Ghafar and Anna L. Jacobs

Monday, September 23, 2019

Palestinian men make leather products for sale in a factory in the West Bank town of Dura, south of Hebron July 2, 2017. Picture taken July 2, 2017. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma -

Youth employment in the Middle East and North Africa: Revisiting and reframing the challenge

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Younes Fekraoui, 26, who is an unemployed graduate, holds his degree certificates at a street at the impoverished Zhor neighborhood of Kasserine, where young people have been demonstrating for jobs since last week, January 28, 2016. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - GF10000288051

Regional development in Tunisia: The consequences of multiple marginalization

Monday, January 14, 2019

A member of the Iraqi security forces stands guard as Ameen Mukdad, a violinist from Mosul who lived under ISIS's rule for two and a half years where they destroyed his musical instruments, performs at Nabi Yunus shrine in eastern Mosul, Iraq, April 19, 2017. REUTERS/ Muhammad Hamed - RC167F7F0AE0

Sectarianism, governance, and Iraq’s future

Monday, November 26, 2018

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrives at the EU council in Brussels, Belgium May 15, 2018.

Europe and the future of Iran policy: Dealing with a dual crisis

Ali Fathollah-Nejad

Monday, October 22, 2018

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) during a photo opportunity ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, February 17, 2018.

India’s pursuit of strategic and economic interests in Iran

Kadira Pethiyagoda

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Supporters of the Islamist Ennahda movement wave party flags during a campaign event in Tunis October 24, 2014. Tunisia will hold parliamentary elections on October 26 and a presidential ballot in November. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

Islamist parties in North Africa: A comparative analysis of Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt

Adel Abdel Ghafar and Bill Hess

Sunday, July 22, 2018

Young entrepreneurs work at the Amman-based Oasis 500, a seed investment firm which finances start-up firms in the region's information technology sector, November 2, 2011. Across the Middle East and North Africa, the Arab Spring uprisings have hurt many businessmen. Economies have slowed sharply as political uncertainty deters investment, new governments focus on trying to restore social stability instead of reforming economic policy, and labour unrest disrupts production and drives up costs. Oasis 500's Executive Chairman Usama Fayyad said governments had become more careful about appearing even-handed towards companies, even in countries that have been relatively untouched by the Arab Spring. In the long term, though, a cleaner, fairer business environment could, even more than other economic reforms such as deregulation and fiscal policy changes, help to solve one of the Arab world's biggest problems: job creation. A more level playing field could spur the growth of similar small and medium-sized firms. Picture taken November 2, 2011. To match Mideast Money ARAB-BUSINESS/SPRING REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) -

Marginalized youth: Toward an inclusive Jordan

Beverley Milton-Edwards

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

People walk with their belongings as they flee the rebel-held town of Hammouriyeh, in the village of Beit Sawa, eastern Ghouta, Syria March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Writing atrocities: Syrian civil society and transitional justice

Noha Aboueldahab

Monday, May 7, 2018

Flames emerge from flare stacks at the oil fields in Basra, southeast of Baghdad, Iraq January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani

Resource regionalism in the Middle East and North Africa: Rich lands, neglected people

Robin Mills and Fatema Alhashemi

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

A Saudi money changer, pictured through a glass, arranges U.S banknotes at a currency exchange shop in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia September 29, 2016. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser

Sustaining the GCC currency pegs: The need for collaboration

Monday, February 19, 2018

A customer exchanges U.S. dollars to Egyptian pounds in a foreign exchange office in central Cairo, Egypt, March 7, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Egypt’s IMF program: Assessing the political economy challenges

Tuesday, January 30, 2018