Middle East and North Africa
We are an open Haus for innovation and a global liberal think-tank, with the aim of enhancing the values and goals of freedom worldwide. With our activities and publications, we encourage and support individuals in exercising their right of political participation. Our offices in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) work within the frame of freedom and human rights in their national context. Our office is based in Amman, Jordan. FNF MENA has three main programs that encourage inter-country cooperation: MENA-NET | MENA-EU | MENA-GEOPOL. We advise and motivate relevant stakeholders and shape and promote solutions that are based on enhancing individual freedom and responsibility.
News
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The New West
Russia’s brutal war of aggression against Ukraine has profoundly changed the global political situation. Fundamentally new conditions for political decision-making have emerged all over the world. Hope for a peaceful Europe has been shaken. The value-based Western model – which combines open societies, free markets, democracy, the rule of law, and human rights – has experienced multiple crises since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. None, however, compares to today’s challenge to this “Western model of democracy”
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Martha's platform is a unique educational platform
Have you ever wondered how to communicate with people who are Deaf?
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From COP22 to COP27: Solidarity and Actions
On December 6th, 2022, and for four days, the Al Hurriya Liberal Network (AHLN), a network that FNF supports in the MENA, kicked off its second General Assembly and third Climate Change seminar entitled "From COP22 to COP27: Solidarity and Actions" in Beirut, Lebanon.
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iValues Awards Ceremony
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation Middle East & North Africa continues to support the active and growing civil society and community of innovators and entrepreneurs across the MENA region. FNF acknowledges their determination and courage in engendering positive change – regardless of the challenges that are facing the region on the security, political, and economic levels. As such they have developed a new initiative called the “iValues: Rethink Politics in MENA"
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Take Me By The Hand
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Innovate to Investigate
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MENA on the Map
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Office Manager Vacancy
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) Middle East and North Africa is looking for an Office Manager to join the team.
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Communications Officer Vacancy
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) Middle East and North Africa is looking for a Communications Officer to join the Jordan team.
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Project Coordinator Vacancy
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) Middle East and North Africa is looking for a Project Coordinator to join the Jordan team.
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Office Manager
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) Middle East and North Africa is looking for an Office Manager to join the team.
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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine – A new Impetus for Morocco’s politico-economic Aspirations
A closer look at recent food consumption price hikes reveals: The Kingdom of Morocco is suffering considerably less on a comparative, regional scale (8.6% increase compared to 13.6% in Algeria and 24.8% in Egypt). Ranking 12th in the world with regards to wheat importation, roughly a fifth of which comes from Ukraine and Russia..
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Tarah Lynn's Internship with FNF MENA
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A Silent War
When the first planes appeared in the sky, Fatima* was outside, working in the backyard. As the first bomb fell on her family’s house in Sanaa, she did not run away. Instead, she rushed back, trying to make her way through the flames and the smoke that were slowly engulfing the building, to reach the room where she had left her three-year-old daughter.
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Recalibrating regional order? The rising Egypt-Jordan-Iraq alignment and its impact in reconfiguring the Levant
The motivation behind the project features common elements: the disdain of the previous US administration, the economic dependence on Gulf countries and the willingness to address common security issues. How could this new partnership recalibrate regional order?
