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.

On August 4, 2020, tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been neglected at the Beirut Port exploded, killing at least 207 victims, injuring another 7,500, and leaving 300,000 homeless. One year later, accountability in any form remains far from being realized.

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…


January 1, 1970
Access to Information in Jordan
June 23, 2021

Although Jordan has a law to guarantee access to information, its vagueness, exceptions regime, and relationship…

January 1, 1970
Access to Information in Lebanon
June 23, 2021

Lebanon’s Access to Information Law was passed in 2017 with very little media coverage and public…

Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, many courtrooms have gone remote. While the…

January 1, 1970
Organizing in Syria: Legislative Fact Sheet
March 26, 2021

A fact sheet by TIMEP's Legal Unit explores how the Syrian regime has used the law…

January 1, 1970
Organizing in Egypt: Legislative Fact Sheet
February 4, 2021

Since the January 25 Revolution, Egyptian authorities have passed a number of laws that severely affect…