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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.
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Amman Innovation in Politics Forum 2020
This is not a conventional conference. It is experimental journey meticulously designed to reflect the power of ideas through unconferencing methods enabling two-way interaction and communication between our audience and experts.
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Idea, Innovation, and Impact
Through the iValues Awards, we seek to transform values into actions and projects that will help improve politics and policy making in the MENA region. We dissected politics into two main categories: politics as practice and politics as a theory. Through different formats, we created a space to discuss the impact of innovation on our day-to-day interaction with policies and politics and to explore the potential of new methodologies in shaping our behavior towards
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Questions looming over Morocco’s role as a climate champion
Morocco presents itself as a pioneer in climate policy, from the ban on plastic bags to designing the world's largest solar power plant. The kingdom is also the focus of European hopes to produce green electricity from the desert in the future. However, Morocco's image as a climate champion is increasingly cracked.
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Take Me By The Hand
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Innovate to Investigate
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Iran 1400 Brief: Beyond the Headlines
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MENA on the Map
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ZENTRUM for political change.
Lebanon now more than ever, is in desperate need of administrative reform and a significant increase in policy making to pave the way for a true change and boost the positive impact of young politicians.
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Tunisia at the Crossroads - Why Tunisia’s power shift should be a cause for concern
Tunisian president Kais Saied has assumed sole power in the country and now represents the executive, the legislative and the judiciary unified in one person. Tunisians are celebrating his power grab. Observers in the region and in Europe are awaiting his next steps. The country is at a dangerous pathway.
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One year after the disastrous explosion
August 4th marks the commemoration of the catastrophic Beirut blast, which killed more than 200 people, injured more than 6,000, and destroyed large parts of city. Many people have not been able to come to terms to what has happened. This comes as no surprise since for many, everyday life has become a never-ending nightmare: the lack of medicine, the long queues in front of gas stations, or the collapse of
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Julia Vinnen's Internship with FNF MENA
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Jordan’s Momentum for Economic Reforms
There is no doubt for the international community and the Jordanian authorities that 2021 was to be yet another challenging year for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Jordanians. 2020 saw the coronavirus pose one of many exogenous shocks to the Kingdom, after a decade of socioeconomic strains ranging from an influx of Syrian refugees, closure of physical borders with some neighboring countries due to security concerns, and threats to energy supplies.
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The Dwindling Shadow of Iran - PART II
Part I of this article studied the geopolitical similarities between Iraq and Lebanon. Part II will overview the recent political developments in Iraq, in an effort to construct a possible general framework of Lebanon’s short-term future, testing the previously discussed idea that Iraq’s present is Lebanon’s future.
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Euro-MENA Show 2021
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ELECTIONS IN MOROCCO: Containing Political Islamism with Mathematics
The Uprisings in the Arab World did not lead to radical change in Morocco, as was the case in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. The regime remained intact and its ruling elite was able to preserve power. However, it was a very important year for Moroccan Moderate Islamists (Parti de la Jeu-nesse et du Dévelopement), as they won elections for the first time in their history taking control of the much-coveted parliamentary majority.
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