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For instance, human rights monitors include Algeria-Watch and Human Rights Watch’s Algeria page. Finally, the World Bank’s Algeria country portal provides economic data and briefings on the country. After nearly two decades of governance by the same ruling party, Turkish democracy suffers multiple threats – economic instability, political abuses, geopolitical uncertainty, and polarization between social and religious actors. One of the largest MENA economies and countries, Turkey struggles to navigate a delicate pathway between upholding the legacies of its Kemalist state, tolerating maximal pluralism in a diverse society, and maintaining the democratic balance in between its elections. The Middle East Regional Platform is USAID’s regional platform serving the Middle East and North Africa, supporting Agency goals by providing shared support services and technical assistance to USAID Missions and Offices with an emphasis on limited- and non-presence countries. The Middle East Regional Platform also serves as a regional convener for trainings and meetings and events based on regional or bilateral interest.

It is the birthplace and spiritual center of religions such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Manichaeism, Yezidi, Druze, Yarsan, and Mandeanism, and in Iran, Mithraism, Zoroastrianism, Manicheanism, and the Baháʼí Faith. Throughout its history the Middle East has been a major center of world affairs; a strategically, economically, politically, culturally, and religiously sensitive area. The region is one of the regions where agriculture was independently discovered, and from the Middle East it was spread, during the Neolithic, to different regions of the world such as Europe, the Indus Valley and Eastern Africa. Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves. As a result, initiatives for development, reduction of poverty, tackling of unemployment, and promotion of civil rights and freedoms have all failed.

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The state has been unable to pay civil servants and soldiers, or to provide basic services like healthcare, water, food and electricity. This is particularly alarming as four in five citizens have been dragged into poverty during the crisis, while inflation further skyrocketed in 2022. The country’s banks, complicit in funnelling the wealth of powerful Lebanese abroad, have been drawing the anger of protesters unable to access their savings. To make things worse, the country has been without a functioning government since the end of October as a new president has not been elected, further delaying crucial reforms to improve economic and monetary governance. At the bottom of the region (and the world), Yemen and Syria demonstrate the tragic impact of protracted conflict. In already weak systems suffering conflict, corruption robs the state of resources, further impairing governments’ ability to fulfil their mandate of protecting the public and rule of law.

After years of stagnation, this year’s deCPI decrease must be a wake-up call to take on urgent reforms and protect fundamental rights and freedoms across the region. Many of the countries comprising the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a political and economic union including the UAE (67), Qatar (58), Saudi Arabia (51), Bahrain (44), Oman (44) and Kuwait (42) are also declining on this year’s CPI. After the Arab Spring, the Gulf states have turned to hyper-nationalism and further repressions of civic space. Without channels for civic participation and easy access to information, the public is left out of decision-making and without avenues to drive social change.

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Established in 2009, MEI’s Turkish Studies program seeks to highlight and analyze political, economic, and social developments in Turkey through scholarly research and public events. It organizes an annual conference featuring leading experts and policy practitioners from Turkey, the United States, and the EU. In parallel, citizens have risen up to demand accountability, reforms, and an end to corruption and incompetence.

Especially in the western region and along the southern border, armed groups flame tensions as the public lead demonstrations calling for better access to basic services. The country has thus been unable to hold elections, and the UN has claimed key institutional players continue to hinder progress. Lebanon (24) has been caught in a spiral of economic, political, and social disasters since its financial sector imploded as a result of overspending and corruption.

The activities of the project are focused on awareness raising and creating economic and livelihood opportunities that are in harmony with this environment and contribute to restoring its delicate biodiversity,” said Auke Lootsma, UNDP Iraq’s Resident Representative. This initiative was launched this morning in an event held at the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) and attended by members of this trifecta partnership. Noore Alam Siddiquee is Professor of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.

With global spending on defense on the rise, the key trends in the Middle East are characteristic of governments worldwide. The majority of Middle East governments have successfully navigated the crises of the past years while maintaining trust in government. The future belongs to those who demonstrate agility in proactively engaging with the changes that the future brings while delivering on citizen needs and expectations.

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On February 21, malicious activity commenced on a web server (Web Server 1) when a netstat command was executed to retrieve a full list of all TCP and UDP connections. It most recently came to attention last year, when Microsoft linked the group to a destructive attack against the Albanian government. It assessed that Crambus was involved in gaining initial access and exfiltrating data from impacted networks. In addition to deploying malware, the attackers made frequent use of the publicly available network administration tool Plink to configure port-forwarding rules on compromised machines, enabling remote access via the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). There is also evidence the attackers modified Windows firewall rules in order to enable remote access. With more than 40 years experience serving our clients in the region, we deliver outcomes for organisations, stakeholders and communities that make a positive and sustainable impact.

This loop limits the possible candidates to those agreeing with the views held by Supreme Leader and he has the final say over all important issues. Constitutional monarchy is a form of government in which a monarch acts as head of state within the guidelines of a constitution, whether it be a written, uncodified, or blended constitution. This form of government differs from absolute monarchy in which an absolute monarch serves as the source of power in the state and is not legally bound by any constitution and has the powers to regulate his or her respective government. French is taught and used in many government facilities and media in Lebanon, and is taught in some primary and secondary schools of Egypt and Syria. Maltese, a Semitic language mainly spoken in Europe, is also used by the Franco-Maltese diaspora in Egypt. Also, due to widespread immigration of French Jews to Israel, it is the native language of approximately 200,000 Jews of Israel.

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Structured analysis, including research briefings written by reliable analysts, also proliferate online, and are devoted to monitoring and evaluating the Tunisian government’s latest policies. Tunisia Monitor at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is the best example. The World Bank’s Tunisia page has many economic and financial data and reports as well. Algeria remains one of the lesser researched countries in the MENA and Arab world, due to its past conflicts and perceived inaccessibility to many social scientists.

General Qassem Suleimani of the Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards rushed to Baghdad to organise its defences against Isis. Iranians talk a lot about defending the historic Iraqi Shia shrines of Karbala and Najaf – and loathe the Sunni extremists they blame the Saudis for backing. Hopes for internal change in the Islamic Republic have risen under President Hassan Rouhani but domestic politics are complex, with the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling the shots on national security issues, including the contentious nuclear programme. Tehran attaches huge strategic value to its relationship with its well-armed Lebanese ally Hezbollah, deployed in support of Assad as well as in the front line against Israel. MEI’s Iran program covers Iranian domestic politics, civil society and social trends, and Tehran’s soft- and hard-power approach to geopolitical competition with other regional states through research, articles, papers, and public and private events.

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The Middle East has established itself as a global Esports hub with huge commercial potential for technology and gaming companies. Young, globally connected digital natives present an untapped potential for companies to invest and reach out to a new fanbase as governments scale esports offerings across the region. With female athletes in the Middle East overcoming cultural barriers to excel in sports, there are now huge opportunities for private sector investment in this area.

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