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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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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Eleven meters
I don’t know what it means to hide behind the veil of memories, and I can’t pin down exactly when I picked up this habit. Surely it hasn’t been more than a decade since I began feeling the need to cling to images of the past--though they are pale like our streets and our facades, which we mistakenly believe are capable of improving our image.
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Where is my father?
When I sat down to write about my experience with photography in Palestine, I was overcome by sadness and fear. I realized that I had never really captured Palestine. In truth, when I was a child, my Palestinian identity was linked to my father.
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River life
A heavy mist covers everything, and the smell of the river interlaces with flowers, breezing coolly through the early morning. The only sounds are the birds shooting upward as soon as they hear footsteps approach.
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Water for Energy: A controversial deal in a thirsty region
It could become one of the largest energy projects between Jordan and Israel since the Wadi Araba Treaty was signed in 1994: the newly envisioned “water-for-energy” deal, as it has been dubbed by the media, has the potential to strengthen green, cross-border cooperation in the Middle East.
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Between the spark of war and the fire of uprising
Lebanon’s protest movement in late 2019 brought a sea of women and men from all walks of life down into the streets, becoming a sort of catharsis after years of compounding crises. What was it like to photograph it all?
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What it’s like to be Algerian: Photographic anatomy
I once read some graffiti that translated into “We are born by chance and live against all odds.” I consider this to be somewhat reflective of this situation in Algeria.
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Homage to Aleppo
Suddenly Aleppo became Barcelona and Barcelona became Aleppo, and everything related to belonging became ambiguous.
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Reflections on the First Shura Council Elections in Qatar
On October 2, 2021, Qatar held its first Shura Council (SC) elections, a new milestone in broadening the political representation and strengthening the governmental institutions in the gas-rich Gulf country. The Qatari constitution approved in a 2003 referendum calls for the elections of the legislative branch of the government, the Shura Council.
