The Copts and the Arab Spring
New York Times
Like the peace that Sadat wrought with Israel, the Coptic community is holding fast, but it’s feeling threatened by the Arab Spring. Copts joined with Muslims in Tahrir Square to overthrow Hosni Mubarak, but the unity forged in that popular up-rising …
Morocco is the Quiet Success Story of the Arab Spring With New Constitution …
Sacramento Bee
Dr. Herzenni’s visit has been sponsored by MoroccoTomorrow, a non-profit, non-political organization which serves as an information source for Moroccan-Americans and others interested in the historic changes brought about by the Arab Spring. …
Yemen’s Arab Spring Yields Results: Saleh Steps Down
Novinite.com
Yemen’s long-time dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh has finally stepped down as President after ten months of intense public protests against his rule. Saleh signed Wednesday in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh a power transition agreement endorsed with the …
Tunisia’s newly elected assembly gets to work
eTaiwan News
By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA AP Tunisia’s newly elected assembly held its inaugural meeting Tuesday, ready to start shaping the constitution and the democratic future of the country that sparked the Arab Spring uprisings. And it didn’t take long for the …
Analysis: Arab League breaks habit, turns on Syria
msnbc.com
Stephanie Rafael via AP What led to this is a mixture of Syria’s blindness to – or at least determination to ignore – change brought with the Arab Spring; Damascus’s choice of friends which has for years riled Arabs particularly in the Gulf; …
EU-ACP Assembly: indebtedness, Somalia, Arab Spring
European Parliament (press release)
MEPs and MPs from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries passed resolutions on the consequences of indebtedness for development, the crisis in the Horn of Africa, especially Somalia, the impact of the Arab Spring on Sub-Saharan Africa, …
Would Saddam Hussein Have Survived the Arab Spring?
PolicyMic
With the “Arab Spring” uprising seeming to challenge President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, one of the most authoritarian rulers in the region, the question must be asked: Would Saddam Hussein have been able to survive an “Arab Spring” revolt in Iraq were …
