November 5, 2024

A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in the greater Middle East and North Africa, usually posted on Tuesdays and occasionally updated throughout the week.

The Al-Zaytuna Mosque in Tunis, Tunisia, the oldest mosque in the city. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Kassus (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Past Middle East Elections

Iraq, Kurdistan Regional Parliamentary Elections: October 20, 2024

Stella Martany, AP (October 30, 2024): Dominant Kurdish parties maintain their sway in the election for the parliament in the Iraqi region

Tunisia Presidential Election: October 6, 2024

Sarah E. Yerkes and Sabina Henneberg, Foreign Affairs (November 4, 2024): How Autocracy Prevailed in Tunisia

Basma El Atti, The New Arab (November 1, 2024): Tunisia sentences influencer to 4 years in prison, arrests four others, after new TikTok ‘morality law’

Ishac Diwan, Hachemi Alaya, and Hamza Meddeb, Carnegie Endowment (October 31, 2024): A Path Out of Tunisia’s Economic Crisis

Algeria Presidential Election: September 7, 2024

AP (November 1, 2024): Algeria pardons and releases journalist who became a key voice during 2019 pro-democracy protests

Turkey Local Elections: March 31, 2024

AFP (November 4, 2024): Turkey sacks three more mayors in Kurdish-majority southeast

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