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Arab Spring News : Jul 8, 2012

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In Libya elections, lessons for Arab Spring
Christian Science Monitor
The Libya elections were a step forward for a bedraggled Arab Spring. They revive the region’s cry for democracy and may set a model in how to accommodate Islam with individual rights.


Christian Science Monitor
Libya’s election hints at blow to Islamist rise in Arab Spring wake
Washington Post
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s first nationwide elections in nearly five decades brought hints Sunday of an Arab Spring precedent: Western-leaning parties making strides over Islamist rivals hoping to follow the same paths to power as in neighbors Egypt and 

Libya: unpromising soil for the hopes of the Arab spring
The Guardian
The outcome of Libya’s first parliamentary election in 47 years was always likely to be messy.


The Guardian
Libya breaks with post-Arab Spring trend by leaning towards moderate
Sydney Morning Herald
 Western-educated political scientist appeared overnight to be beating Islamist parties in Libya’s first election after Muammar Gaddafi, breaking an Islamist wave that swept across neighbouring Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco in the aftermath of the Arab 

The Arab Spring Needs a Season of Reconciliation
OUPblog (blog)
How the Arab Spring countries address the evils of yesterday affects their prospects for peace and democracy tomorrow. Today only Tunisia is reasonably stable. Egypt has just experienced a polarizing election and faces continued uncertainty whether its 

Outcome of ‘Arab Spring‘ unclear
Cincinnati.com
David Ignatius is a columnist for the Washington Post. Whatever else that might be said about the Arab revolutions, it’s obvious that they pose a problem for Israel.

After the Spring: Women of the Arab Revolution
TIME
As Libya and Egypt hold nationwide elections, LightBox presents the work of Sarah Elliott, whose photographs show those who had the most at stake after the revolutions: women.


TIME
Premature Elections Invite Political Instability
Huffington Post (blog)
Although elections and political reforms are needed in the wake of the Arab Spring, premature elections could usher in a period of continued political instability punctuated by violence, or introduce new totalitarian regimes that would assume power 


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