Sisi needs to establish his credibility in the West, says Dr. Claire Spencer, Head of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chatham House. Brokering a cease-fire presents Egypt as a power to be reckoned with, she adds.
"It's really a question of time before the Annan plan becomes hollow," said Claire Spencer, head of the Middle East and North Africa program at the London think tank Chatham House. "The testimony from survivors - when you hear it from children - as opposed to people who have a vested interest in pre
Date: May 29, 2012
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Peter Goodspeed: The glamorous face of Syria's dictatorship
Forced now to be a silent stage prop at political rallies, Ms. Assad has joined the wives of other Middle Eastern dictators as what Claire Spencer of the Chatham House think-tank in London called the acceptable face of a less acceptable reality.
Date: Jan 13, 2012
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Russia regretful over US decision to delay Arab-Israeli peace step
"The Quartet has never been a mediator, it's always been a backup group for U.S. negotiations," said Dr. Claire Spencer who heads the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chatham House, a London-based think-tank.
Moussa is now juggling a new series of demands. One of his jobs, says Claire Spencer, head of the Middle East and North Africa programme at the thinktank Chatham House, is to test ordinary people's reaction to a variety of positions on behalf of the Arab League's members.
Date: Mar 21, 2011
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Can Morocco's King Mohammed VI outpace Morocco's 'winds of change'?
Claire Spencer, the head of Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Programme, called the kings speech momentous but said that most experts and ordinary Moroccans were waiting to see is how much life will be breathed into the often moribund political parties in Morocco in coming months.
Date: Mar 10, 2011
Category: World
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Britain's alliance with Libya turns sour as Gaddafi cracks down
According to Claire Spencer, head of the Middle East and North Africa programme at Chatham House, the rapprochement with Libya in 2004 was founded on assumptions that dominated for a decade post-9/11, obsessed as the west was with the fight against al-Qaida, the wider "global war on terror" and fear