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Arab spring News : Apr 24, 2012

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Last year’s Arab Spring is turning into this year’s Islamic spring
Globe and Mail
Egypt votes for a new president in exactly one month, the remarkable culmination of a popular uprising that, with a lot of help from the country’s military, removed the leader of the most populous Arab country and took a big step toward real democracy.

Globe and Mail
Arabian Travel Market to focus on Arab Spring
gulfnews.com
Dubai Tourism authorities, hotels and other hospitality players will for the first time since the Arab Spring broke out come together at this year’s Arabian Travel Market (ATM), the Middle East’s largest travel and tourism event, to be held in Dubai

gulfnews.com
Arab Tech Startups Try To Seize The Moment
NPR (blog)
by Tim Fitzsimons The political changes brought about by the Arab Spring have raised hopes among high-tech entrepreneurs that this will translate into an improved business climate. Here, budding entrepreneurs work at Oasis 500, a seed investment firm
Abdou Filali-Ansary and Alfred Stepan write about the “Arab Spring” in Latest
MarketWatch (press release)
“But,” he goes on to ask, “if this analysis is correct, how can we understand the persistence of calls for a return to shari’a, and the endorsement that such calls seem to receive when Arabs are allowed to exercise their democratic right to vote in
Is the Arab Spring losing its way on women’s rights?
PublicServiceEurope.com
by Zahid Mahmood What is the future for democracy in the Middle East, following the Arab Spring? “Depends how you define democracy”, says Mahmoud Salem, a political activist from Egypt. Speaking at the German Marshall Fund of the United States’

PublicServiceEurope.com
Morocco’s Islamist PM in rare criticism of king’s entourage
Al-Arabiya
Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane warned that “the Arab Spring is not over yet” and that it is “still wandering about and may feel like coming back.” (Reuters) By Souhail Karam Morocco’s prime minister has hit out at courtiers around King

Al-Arabiya
Mona Eltahawy: Women will finish what Arab Spring started
BBC News
In a striking cover article for Foreign Policy magazine, Egyptian-American writer Mona Eltahawy argues that women must finish the revolutions started by the Arab Spring. Eltahawy tells the BBC’s Katty Kay that post-Mubarak Egypt has not provided women

BBC News
Tunisian Envoy to Council of Europe Debates Role of Women in Arab Spring
Tunisia Live
Vice Speaker of the Tunisian National Constituent Assembly Mehrezia Laabidi Maiza, a prominent figure affiliated with the Ennahdha party, represented Tunisian women today during a hearing concerning the role of women in the Arab Spring at the Council

Tunisia Live
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