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Arab spring News : Apr 9, 2012

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The Other Arab Spring
New York Times
ISN’T it interesting that the Arab awakening began in Tunisia with a fruit vendor who was harassed by police for not having a permit to sell food — just at the moment when world food prices hit record highs? And that it began in Syria with farmers in

New York Times
Arab spring Islamists launch US charm offensive
Al-Arabiya
(Reuters) By AFP With a White House meeting, talks at a think-tank, and interviews with newspapers, Islamists unshackled by the Arab Spring are launching a new charm offensive to reassure a nervous Washington. The rise to power of elected Islamists in

Al-Arabiya
Jerusalem prelate tells Arab Spring youth to have confidence
Monsters and Critics.com
Jerusalem – Participants in the Arab Spring should show ‘strength of will and confidence in a better future,’ Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal said Sunday in his Easter homily. Delivering his sermon in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in
Must-Read: Tom Friedman On Climate Change And ‘The Other Arab Spring
ThinkProgress
By Joe Romm on Apr 8, 2012 at 12:14 pm “The Arab awakening was driven not only by political and economic stresses, but, less visibly, by environmental, population and climate stresses as well. If we focus only on the former and not the latter,
Jesse Kline: Is Canada witnessing a ‘Western Spring‘?
National Post
Last spring, Senate page Brigette DePape held up a “Stop Harper” sign on the Senate floor and went on national media advocating a “Canadian version of an Arab Spring.” Notwithstanding the fact that Arabs have been fighting for democracy, and that we’d

National Post
Syria is battleground for Russia and US
gulfnews.com
But these countries were also at odds with moderate Arab states like Saudi Arabia and Egypt. For the US, maintaining the flow of oil from the Gulf states and protecting Israel remain the bulwark of its policy in the region. The Arab Spring has secluded

gulfnews.com
KWES NewsWest 9 / Midland, Odessa, Big Spring, TX: newswest9.com | Syrian
NewsWest9.com
Street protests against Assad erupted 13 months ago, inspired by the Arab Spring’spro-democracy uprisings in the region, but the revolt has turned violent in the face of a brutal regime crackdown. The Syrian opposition and Western leaders have
The assault on journalists and their craft
Arab News
may be creeping, feline-like, into the political systems of several countries in the Arab world. At the least, that’s what we had hoped in those heady, exhilarating days following the onset of the Arab Spring, an uprising at whose core was the demand
GÖKHAN BACIK
Today’s Zaman
At first, the Arab Spring was evaluated as the marker of the end of the traditional Arab order. Experts analyzed developments from the perspective of nation-states in the Middle East, which inevitably made way for an Arab-centered paradigm.
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