| Arab Spring may not bring democracy after all The Korea Herald And most people in the West, after jubilantly watching the Arab Spring’s amazing revolutions last year, wanted to believe them. But now we can see that these Islamic groups are taking us for fools. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood promised that it … |
| HUSAIN: The frozen Arab Spring Yale Daily News Hundreds of people remain behind bars alongside al-Khawaja for participating in mass protests against despotism and discrimination in Bahrain since the outbreak of the Arab Spring. Amnesty International has demanded that al-Khawaja be released … |
| Whatever Happened to the Arab Spring? CounterPunch Caught off-guard by the initial wave of the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia, the US and its allies struck back with a vengeance. They employed a number of simultaneous tactics to sabotage the Arab Spring. These included (1) instigating fake instances … |
| Sandstorm after Arab Spring reshapes US-Egypt relations China Post When last year’s Arab Spring revolt toppled the longtime rule of President Hosni Mubarak, the once predictable political paradigm of US-Egyptian ties soon became clouded. Though the revolution against Mubarak’s secular but authoritarian rule was not… |
| A post-Arab Spring strategy Korea Times By Volker Perthes BERLIN ― More than a year into the Arab revolts, their outcomes remain highly uncertain. But some initial lessons for international politics ― and for Western, particularly European, foreign policy ― merit serious consideration. |
| Was the Arab Spring really a Facebook revolution? New Scientist The western world was quick to celebrate the success of new media, and the idea of the Arab Spring as a “Facebook Revolution” spread as fast as the tweets. One Egyptian couple even named their baby Facebook. Was social media a vital component that … |
| The Arab Spring: Youth, freedom and the tools of technology Daily News Egypt The seminal use of social media as vehicles for change in the Arab Spring uprisings exemplifies the power of web-based communication and makes a strong case for Internet freedom. Web-based communications have been used by young, tech literate activists … |
| Andy Carvin visits campus to talk about Tweeting the Arab Spring University Daily Kansan By Hannah Barling Famous in the Twitter world as @acarvin, he has reported on Arab Spring, a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protest in the Arab world, since it began in late 2010. Carvin leads NPR’s social media efforts and was interviewed by … |
