TIMEP’s legal unit serves as a resource on legal, judicial, and accountability-related issues for a non-technical audience, unpacking, presenting, and contextualizing the top developments in analysis pieces, explainers, and reports.

A decade after the Assad regime silenced the mass peaceful demonstrations with brute military force across Syria, the government continues to consolidate its power by criminalizing freedom of speech and expression, and shrinking civic spaces to stifle any form of dissent or perceived opposition. The…


This brief delves into some of the primary issues affecting and implicating the country’s religious minorities,…

January 1, 1970
Legislating in Sudan: The Transitional Period
October 18, 2021

On October 3, 2020, the parties signed the Juba Peace Agreement, which amended the Charter and…

January 1, 1970
Vaccine Access and Distribution in MENA
September 20, 2021

While international debates over intellectual property, vaccine nationalism, and global access have taken center stage, a…

On August 4, 2020, tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been neglected at the Beirut Port…

January 1, 1970
Access to Information in Tunisia
June 25, 2021

Five years after the law’s passing, how does has it fared, what has implementation looked like,…

January 1, 1970
Access to Information Laws in MENA
June 25, 2021

In a new four-part series, our authors unpack the importance of this right in the MENA…