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Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun (C) meets with Prime minister-designate Saad al-Hariri (R) and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon December 18, 2016. Dalati Nohra/Handout via Reuters

Lebanon: Electoral Law is the New Government’s Big Challenge

by Paula Astih | Dec 29, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut – Contrary to the status quo that prevailed in Lebanon by the end of 2015, the situation today in the Mediterranean country looks significantly more positive, especially following the election of a new Lebanese president in October and the formation of a unity...

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Morocco’s Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane wipes his forehead during the closing news conference after a summit of Mediterranean neighbours at Verdala Palace outside Valletta October 6, 2012. Leaders from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Malta are meeting in Valletta for the second 5+5 Dialogue Summit. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi (MALTA – Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) – RTR38UT2

Morocco Elections…Death or Survival

by Abdul-Kabir Al-Minawi | Oct 2, 2016 | Features

Marrakesh- More than 15 million Moroccan voters are expected to participate in the parliamentary election on Friday, which is the second to take place after the new constitution in 2011 and the fourth under the rule of Mohammed VI of Morocco. The regulatory law of the...

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An Iraqi Kurdish man leaves a voting booth before casting his ballot during the Kurdistan’s legislative election at a polling station on September 21, 2013 in the northern Kurdish city of Arbil. (AFP/ PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Kurdish KDP official “sorry” for PUK election failure

by Ma'ad Fayad | Sep 25, 2013 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Kurdistan parliamentary elections’ preliminary results have drawn a mixed reaction from supporters of the main parties. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) said they would have preferred their party to have had a large enough makority to...

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A picture taken on September 12, 2013 shows an Iraqi Kurdish man walking past electoral campaign posters of candidates running in the Kurdistan parliament election, in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil. (AFP)

Kurdistan: PUK rallies support as elections approach

by Sherzad Shekhani | Sep 18, 2013 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, has sought to rally support as the Kurdistan Region Government (KRG) elections enter its final week. The PUK named the final week of election campaigning the...

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An anti-Mursi protester covers her mouth with an image and writes Arabic words on her forehead that read “Leave” in front of the Muslim Brotherhood’s national headquarters in Cairo’s Moqattam district. (R)

Are the Egyptian Secularists Right?

by Manuel Almeida | Mar 27, 2013 | Opinion

The new Egyptian constitution, a worrying document for women, journalists and religious minorities alike, was the tipping point for many of those observers that still granted the Ikhwan the benefit of the doubt. After Mohammed Mursi’s signature in late December, which...