Reports

POMED Reports offer a focused, analytically rigorous look into specific trends or emerging issues relevant to democratic development in the Middle East and North Africa. Reports highlight original, innovative research managed by POMED Staff and Fellows. For more information, please contact Daniel Tavana, Research Associate.

The following reports have been produced by POMED. To jump to a specific year, click the appropriate link below.

2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008

2013

A Guide to Iran’s Presidential Election
Daniel Tavana, June 2013

Moving Beyond Rhetoric: How Should President Obama Change U.S. Policy in the Middle East?
Project on Middle East Democracy, January 2013

2012

One Year Later: Assessing Bahrain’s Implementation of the BICI Report
Project on Middle East Democracy, November 2012

The Federal Budget and Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2013: Democracy, Governance, and Human Rights in the Middle East
Stephen McInerney
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, July 2012

An Arabic version of the Federal Budget and Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2013 report is also available here.

Backgrounder: Previewing Libya’s Elections
Daphne McCurdy
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, July 2012

The Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: Appropriations Bills, FY13
Cole Bockenfeld
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, June 2012

Summary and Highlights: The Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs House Appropriations Bill, FY13
Cole Bockenfeld
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, May 2012

Updated Backgrounder: The Campaign Against NGOs in Egypt
Daphne McCurdy
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, March 2012

Backgrounder: The Campaign Against NGOs in Egypt
Daphne McCurdy
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, February 2012

2011

Summary and Highlights of the FY12 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Bills
Cole Bockenfeld
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, October 2011

A Guide to the Tunisian Elections
Daphne McCurdy
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, October 2011

The Federal Budget and Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012: Democracy, Governance, and Human Rights in the Middle East
Stephen McInerney
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, July 2011

An Arabic version of the Federal Budget and Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012 report is also available here.

2010

Assessing the Pre-election Political Environment in Egypt
Stephen McInerney
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, November 2010

For the Common Good: Revitalizing Mutilateral Cooperation for Political Reform in the Middle East
Tuqa Nusairat
The Project on Middle East Democracy and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, June 2010

The Federal Budget and Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011: Democracy, Governance, and Human Rights in the Middle East
Stephen McInerney
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, April 2010

After Cairo: From the Vision of the Cairo Speech to Active Support for Human Dignity
Edited by Andrew Albertson, Barak Hoffman, and Tuqa Nusairat
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, January 2010

Strategies for Engaging Political Islam
Shadi Hamid and Amanda Kadlec
Project on Middle East Democracy and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, January 2010

2009

The Federal Budget and Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2010: Democracy, Governance, and Human Rights in the Middle East
Stephen McInerney
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, July 2009

Looking Forward: An Integrated Strategy for Supporting Democracy and Human Rights in Egypt
Gregory L. Aftandilian
Project on Middle East Democracy, May 2009

Speaking Clearly: What Should President Obama Say to the Middle East?
Stephen McInerney (ed.)
Project on Middle East Democracy, January 2009

2008

Religion and State Relationships: A Middle East, U.S. and EU ‘Trialogue’
David M. DeBartolo & Amanda Kadlec
Project on Middle East Democracy and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, December 2008

Middle East Reform: Recommendations from the Region
Project on Middle East Democracy and Americans for Informed Democracy, July 2008

The President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2009 &
Democracy, Governance, and Human Rights in the Middle East
Stephen McInerney
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, May 2008

Perceptions of U.S. Democracy: Middle Eastern & American Views
David DeBartolo
Project on Middle East Democracy Report, May 2008