Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 49

5-Dec-2011

Political Comment (5 December 2011)

The Arab League and Turkey have imposed sanctions on the embattled Syrian regime. Islamists have formed coalition governments with secular parties in Tunisia and Morocco, and are leading in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections. Iranian demonstrators have trashed the British embassy in Tehran, deepening the country's international isolation. Bahrain has formed a commission to consider the...