Islamists Win Morocco’s Arab Spring Election
TIME
27, 2011 (RABAT, Morocco) — The victory of an Islamist Party in Morocco’s parliamentary elections appears to be one more sign that religious-based parties are benefiting the most from the new freedoms brought by the Arab Spring. Across the Middle East ..
Telegraph.co.uk
Live rolling coverage from around the Middle East as Egypt prepares for a ‘Last chance million-man protest’ and the Syrian opposition is set to meet with the Arab League. By Harriet Alexander, and Amy Willis 21.36 We’re going to call it a day there but …
KEYSTONE INFLUENCE: SYRIA’S ARAB SPRING AND THE RACE FOR REGIONAL HEGEMONY
Huffington Post
The Arab Spring is changing the political and strategic map of the Middle East as we know it in ways that will persist for decades to come. Notwithstanding the domestic developments in each country, the Arab Spring is uprooting long-standing …
Arab Spring bears fruit of freedom
Sydney Morning Herald
CAIRO: Long lines of voters stretched along the crowded streets of Egypt’s capital as voting began yesterday, with people openly excited about their role in what is being billed as Egypt’s first free and fair election in decades. …
Canada Free Press
Ever since the Arab Spring began videos have been making the rounds of massacres in Syria and Bahrain, photos of violent protests in Egypt, excited tweets, bloodied faces, Molotov cocktails and all the rest of the revolutionary chatter. …
Morocco elections aren’t a model for the Arab Spring as West claims
Christian Science Monitor
The West has been veritably giddy about King Mohammed VI’s “progressive” democratic reforms – implemented to head off Arab Spring turmoil and appease protesters. American Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton heralded the constitutional reforms …
Journalist bridges Arab Spring and OWS
NYU Washington Square News
by Sarah Skirmont Renowned journalist Anand Gopal compared his experiences covering the Arab Spring and covering the Occupy Wall Street protest in a disucssion entitled “From Egypt to Wall Street: How Are Revolutions Made?” The event was sponsored by …
Judge sentences G20 accused, who use court soapbox to evoke ‘Arab Spring‘ and …
National Post (blog)
Hopperton compared his group’s struggle against societal injustice to the Arab Spring, calling his prosecution “deeply political.” “Many chose only to hear a call to chaos and destruction, but to hear only this is to miss something important,” he said. …
US’ neo imperialism
Deccan Herald
The genuine desire of ordinary folks apart, the Arab Spring seems to have been backed by a US policy of destabilisation. It’s a familiar scenario. A major political event occurs and the mainstream media opts for simplistic explanations. …
