Senior Policy Fellow
Libyan affairs; politics, governance and development in the Arab world
English, Arabic
Tarek Megerisi is a senior policy fellow with the North Africa and Middle East programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is a political analyst and researcher who specialises in Libyan affairs and more generally politics, governance and development in the Arab world.
Megerisi started his career in Tripoli, Libya with the Sadeq Institute and various INGOs providing diverse research and democratisation assistance to Libya’s post-revolutionary authorities between 2012-2014.
Megerisi returned to London in 2014 and has since been working freelance as an analyst and researcher, advising on Libya policy to a range of international missions to Libya, commentating on Libyan developments for publications like Foreign Policy, and co-authoring policy briefs or assisting with the Libya programming of a variety of think-tanks. He has also authored commissioned papers for organisations such as WPF and the Legatum Institute and contributed to wider publications for journals like ISPI. In 2017 he was part of the UN OHCHR team to update the Pinheiro Principles on Home, Land & Property Rights for the Middle East.
Haftar’s weakening position will have ramifications for the stability of Eastern Libya, the activities of regional states that have based their policy on him, and on the diplomatic efforts to unify Libya’s fragmented political and security actors
How the EU can move on from a deal to support a peaceful post-revolution politics in Libya
The outcome leaves Dbeibah stronger for now, but only underlines the need for a still absent political process
Tarek Megerisi comments on the political implications of the recent clashes
Both have long since stopped serving the country’s interests, but only their own
From Tarek Megerisi’s point of view, both Dbaiba and Bashagha have failed to gain legitimacy
They can weaken a major Russian foreign policy interest, stabilize a key energy route between North Africa and Europe, and transform a source of instability into a valuable partner
Tarek Megerisi is quoted on the potential for European engagement with Libya
Haftar’s official classification as a war criminal will make his political ambitions more difficult
Tarek Megerisi’s comment on the consequences of the ruling of the US Federal Court of Eastern Virginia, which has found General Khalifa Haftar guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity
He doesn’t have the support or the governance nouse to build a new political system, and when the economy collapses, you won’t have a political system that can salvage it
Tarek Megerisi comments on the political challenges faced by Tunisia’s President Kais Saied
