Yara Asmar
Short vita
Yara Asmar is the Regional Strategy Manager at FNF MENA. She is specialized in the fields of Middle Eastern studies and party politics. She is a researcher on Iran and social movements. She published a study in 2018 on regime change and contentious politics in Iran. Yara holds a BA in Communication Arts and Journalism from Notre Dame University- Lebanon and an MA in International Relations from the Central European University – Budapest where she graduated 2018. Yara Asmar started her adventure with Friedrich Naumann Foundation in 2014 at the Beirut based office.
Contributions
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Who is Qualified for the Job?
“I am not qualified for this job”.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said it in 1989 in a closed-door session of the Assembly of Experts who gathered to elect the successor of Ayatollah Khomeini. Although the Speaker of Parliament Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has expressed that Ali Khamenei was the choice of the founding father, a leaked video from 1989 reveals that Khamenei was selected to be the interim Supreme Leader for a period of one year. -
#InnovatingPolitics is What we Need in the MENA Region!
FNF MENA has been organizing for two consecutive years now its annual Innovation in Politics Forum. Between the Beirut and Amman editions, the aim was to create an annual experimental journey to expose groundbreaking political work - from new methodologies to the use of technology in politics.
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One Bold Move, Different Scenarios
No matter how one reads the aftermath of the peace deal between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel, there is one conclusion that seems to be undisputable: the so-called Abraham Accord will redesign the equation of power in the Middle East.
