Manal Shehabi

Nov 27, 2023 | foreignpolicy.com | Manal Shehabi

Argument An expert's point of view on a current event. A worker walks past the logo of COP28 in the United Arab Emirates in Dubai on Nov. 27.

May 3, 2023 | carnegieendowment.org | Bessma Momani |Manal Shehabi |Olivia Lazard |Kelsey P. Norman

Table of ContentsThe economies of the Arab region are directly shaped by anemic global economic growth and uncertainties around disruptions including inflation trends, China’s economic future after its pandemic-related slowdown and reopening, rising debt levels, capital outflow from emerging market economies to advanced economies, and the trajectory of commodity and energy prices.

May 3, 2023 | carnegieendowment.org | Frederic Wehrey |Bessma Momani |Manal Shehabi |Olivia Lazard

Table of ContentsAn alluring narrative has arisen about the Arab world’s recent evolution that goes something like this. The dislocations of the 2011 Arab uprisings, which dominated headlines and rippled across the region in the shape of crackdowns, civil wars, and so-called proxy conflicts, have largely subsided.

May 3, 2023 | carnegieendowment.org | Marc Jones |Bessma Momani |Manal Shehabi |Olivia Lazard

Table of ContentsThe Middle East has experienced rapid, albeit asymmetrical, digitalization over the past twenty years. Despite the benefits of technology, there is increasing evidence that it is being used to engage in new practices that fundamentally alter the repressive capacity and reach of the state. Here authoritarian states are shifting to emergent totalitarian states.

May 3, 2023 | carnegieendowment.org | Dalia Kaye |Frederic Wehrey |Bessma Momani |Manal Shehabi

Table of ContentsThe Middle East is in once again in a state of dramatic flux. The turbulent, post-2011 era of civil wars, adventurism, and proxy rivalries appears to have peaked. Regional insurgent and terrorist groups, namely the Islamic State, have been severely degraded. The strength of transnational political Islam has faded as well and, with the consolidation of power by President Kais Saied in Tunisia, so too has the prospect of democracy taking root and spreading.