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Arab Spring News: August 9, 2012

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The Other Arab Spring – NYTimes.com

www.nytimes.com

Environmental pressures, not just political and economic ones, stirred change in the Mide

‘Arab Spring’ Update: Muslim Brotherhood Accused of Attempting to Control …

NewsBusters (blog)

Gosh, are we take this as meaning that those who doubted the legitimacy of the Brotherhood’s claims to believe in basic liberties are seeing their fears realized, and that the U.S. and world press were duped into fawning over an “Arab Spring” which was …

 

Mac Deford: Arab Spring; Israeli Fall?

Freepress Online

As the Arab world continues down its rocky road away from the secular dictatorships of the last four decades, the short-term outlook remains explosive, even dangerous, but amidst all the chaos, there’s one consoling thought: the future will surely be …

 

Arab Winter

The Weekly Standard (blog)

Ruthie Blum, former columnist and senior editor at the Jerusalem Post, is not optimistic about the Arab Spring and what it means for American interests and allies in the Middle East, Arabs as well as Israelis. Nor does she believe that many Americans …

 

A non-Arab Spring?

Manila Standard Today

Advertisement. PREVIOUS ARTICLE. A non-Arab Spring? By Francisco S. Tatad | Posted on August 10, 2012 | 12:01am |. 272 views. The Heavens literally wept when President Benigno Aquino III bamboozled the House of Representatives to terminate the

 

Press freedom group criticizes Oman for convicting 20 bloggers, activists

Washington Post (blog)

… and of insulting the nation’s ruler. The cases are part of wider crackdowns against protesters and online activists in the Arabian Peninsula country, which has seen growing calls for more political openness after last year’s unrest inspired by the …

 

Protests return to Tunisia with Sidi Bouzid street rallies

GlobalPost

A person caped in the Tunisian flag walks past a statue representing the cart of Mohamed Al Bouazizi, the fruit vendor whose self-immolation sparked the revolution that ousted a dictator and ignited the Arab Spring, on Dec. 17, 2011 in Sidi Bouzid …

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