🇩🇿 #Algeria is set to hold a presidential election on September 7, in which incumbent President Abdelmadjid #Tebboune is expected to win. Andrew G. Farrand explains why Algeria is unlikely to see a smooth transfer of power. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasour…

🗓️ September 5 | 🕘 9:00 AM ET Join us and ACGlobalChina for a discussion on China’s evolving approach to the #MENA featuring Jonathan Fulton, Michael Schuman, Mohammed Baharoon, Dawn C Murphy, Camille Lons, and Jonathan Panikoff. Register below ⬇️ atlanticcouncil.org/event/chinas-c…

🗓️ September 5 | 🕘 9:00 AM ET Join us and ACGlobalChina for a discussion on China’s evolving approach to the #MENA featuring Jonathan Fulton, Michael Schuman, Mohammed Baharoon, Dawn C Murphy, Camille Lons, and Jonathan Panikoff. Register below ⬇️ atlanticcouncil.org/event/chinas-c…

🎊We’d like to offer a warm welcome to Adam Kozloski as a nonresident senior fellow at the N7 Initiative! Adam previously served as Senator Joni Ernst’s foreign policy advisor and has written legislation to advance the #AbrahamAccords. Read more:➡️ bit.ly/3MC5ONK

Our editor @HDagres gave a lecture at TEDxMidAtlantic highlighting Gen Z Iranians’ perspective on their country’s future and how they might shape it. Watch her full TED Talks lecture below ⬇️ youtube.com/watch?v=XtUotL…

The practice of marriages between cousins, known as consanguineous marriage, is notably common in the #MENA. Take a look at which countries in the region have the highest consanguineous marriage rates.

📅 September 18 | 🕑 11 a.m. ET / 6 p.m. KSA Join the #WInFellowship for a conversation in partnership with U.S. Embassy Riyadh, PepsiCo Middle East, and @AmChamKSA on navigating the future of women entrepreneurship in #SaudiArabia! Register below ⬇️ atlanticcouncil.org/event/the-stat…

⚖️ In June, the Court of Appeal of Paris upheld the arrest warrant against #Syria’s Bashar al-Assad for his use of chemical weapons against civilians. Jeanne Sulzer and Clémence Witt analyze the impacts of the Court’s ruling below ⬇️ atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasour…

The Court of Appeal of Paris’s ruling against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in June suggests that there is no such thing as absolute immunity for a sitting head of state, write Jeanne Sulzer and Clémence Witt. bit.ly/47d5rmy

🔴 TODAY | 🕘 9:00 AM ET Join us and ACGlobalChina for a discussion on China’s evolving approach to the #MENA featuring Jonathan Fulton, Michael Schuman, Mohammed Baharoon, Dawn C Murphy, Camille Lons, and Jonathan Panikoff. Register below ⬇️ atlanticcouncil.org/event/chinas-c…

🇩🇿 #Algeria is set to hold a presidential election on September 7, in which incumbent President Abdelmadjid #Tebboune is expected to win. Andrew G. Farrand explains why Algeria is unlikely to see a smooth transfer of power. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasour…

"11 months after #Hamas's horrific terrorist attack on #Israel and the ensuing war that has taken thousands of innocent lives, #Beijing's intentions and evolving strategy toward the Middle East has come into focus,” explains Jonathan Panikoff. Watch more: ➡️ bit.ly/47fdoHI

“[#China’s] approach to the region would have to be more muscular because it had relied on on US stabilization to security interests and I think in #Beijing, they no longer felt that was a realistic policy,” explains Jonathan Fulton. Watch more: ➡️ bit.ly/47fdoHI

“[#China’s] analysis is they're not gonna be able to actually affect the outcome of the current crisis and so their focus is on the longer term resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” explains Dawn C Murphy. Watch more: ➡️ bit.ly/47fdoHI

GCH is happy to announce our Nonresident Senior Fellow Michael Schuman and Atlantic Council Middle East Initiatives Nonresident Senior Fellow Jonathan Fulton’s report on China’s Middle East policy shift has been published! Read it here: atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-resea…

“#China use to be seen as a one dimensional superpower focusing only on economy,” explains b'huth بحوث’s Mohammed Baharoon. "It has started to change that by using some sort of diplomatic power,” he adds. Watch more: ➡️ bit.ly/47fdoHI

🇩🇿 Polls have predicted that incumbent Algerian President Abdelmadjid #Tebboune is set to win the country’s upcoming elections. Andrew G. Farrand explains the political and economic implications behind the potential reelection of Tebboune. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…

🇮🇶 Iraqi parliament recently proposed an amendment to the Personal Status Law that many observers have warned could potentially legalize child marriage. Nibras Basitkey analyzes the proposals of the amendment and their potential impact on Iraqi girls. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasour…