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Arab Spring News: August 20, 2012

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Exile leader says Tibetan immolations ignored

New York Daily News

Tibet’s political leader has noted his disappointment over the fact that self-immolations by Tibetan protestors have not received as much attention as the incident where a Tunisian fruit seller’s similar death led to the Arab Spring. Nearly 50 Tibetans …

 

Veiled Anchors, Koranic Contests and Racy Romance

New York Times

The disruptions of the Arab Spring shattered normal life in the Middle East — and make-believe. But television producers are resilient. Egyptian TV had dozens of new series during Ramadan. Syria’s output has been devastated by the conflict there, but ..

 

Not ready for (post-Spring) prime time

Haaretz‎

‪”Next time I’ll tell you a different joke,” the Egyptian ambassador in Tel Aviv says in fluent Hebrew to his Israeli friend, and the two men shake ..

 

A step closer to democracy



Philadelphia Inquirer‎

Yes, I will.” This is the unequivocal answer of Egypt’s president Mohammed Morsi to the long-pending question of whether he is willing to show …

 

Saudi Rides the Wave

Huffington Post

The reverberations from the Arab Spring that have shaken the established order across the Middle East have been felt acutely in Riyadh, where Saudi leaders were badly rattled by the spread of revolutionary sentiments. The turbulent aftermath has …

 

Egyptian Tears Up the Quran on Camera

Gatestone Institute

Could this be the real Arab Spring? The Muslim world does not have to blame Pastor Terry Jones any more for burning the Quran or non-Muslims for desecrating it. They are now in shock over seeing a YouTube post of a young Egyptian man doing the .

 

Dire Straits

Iranian

The weaponry capable of that kind of operation is not exactly of the sort with which we identify the Arab Spring. The US and its regional allies have joined the ruling Assad regime completely to militarise the terms of democratic uprising in Syria. In

 

 

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