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Lebanon is presented with the most serious challenges it has faced in the past decade. The economy is struggling, the internal security situation is deteriorating and the country’s neighbors pose real threats. In …

In a corner of Hamra Street amid the daily hustle and bustle, motorists and passersby may not notice this family of four — a single mother, two girls and a …

Tunisia’s coalition government, its first to emerge from free and fair elections, has been on a steep learning curve through its first year in office. In the October 2011 vote …

Lebanon first fell into the crosshairs of the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in 2011. Pressure from OFAC — effectively the world’s anti-money …

Nothing ever happens in Jordan, it is often said, yet 2012 has been an altogether eventful year, which prompted some pundits to wonder if the country could be the next …

Yemen has always been a country of halves,and 2012 was no different. Half dictatorship, half elections, half reform and some even claim merely a half a revolution, given that past …

One of the main questions surrounding the Syrian uprising at the beginning of 2012 was if and when an economic collapse would occur. As the year draws to a close, …

For the Palestinians the passage of time offers little reprieve. While their circumstances have changed this past year, they have only changed for the worse. Israel has systematically worked to …

It seemed to many that President Mohammed Morsi was paving the way for his own dictatorship at the end of November when he issued a game-changing constitutional declaration radically expanding …

  It has been a year of dreaming dangerously for some Lebanese Sunnis who see the perpetually impending downfall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as an opportunity to reassert their …