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Arab spring News : Feb 24, 2012

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The Arab Spring on the verge of oblivion
Al-Arabiya
Some believe that this Arab Spring has been diverted from its original noble goals and hijacked from the younger generation, who dazzled the world and captured the imagination in an unprecedented fashion. We have seen these revolutions hijacked by 

Al-Arabiya
Wadah Khanfar: Iran Strike Would Be A ‘Disaster’ For Fragile Arab Spring
Huffington Post
Khanfar, who traveled to Washington, DC, to discuss the ongoing transformations in the Arab world and his new project, the Sharq Forum, said he worried the fragile Arab Spring could become an unintended casualty of a war because the new, 
Tunisia: tourists slow to return after Arab Spring
Telegraph.co.uk
One year on from the Arab Spring, the country is calm and prices are low – so why haven’t British tourists returned? By David Blair At first glance, the russet-brown ruins on a hill beside the Gulf of Tunis do not look like remarkable monuments to 

Telegraph.co.uk
How kingdoms survived Arab Spring?
The Nation, Pakistan
In words of Michael L. Ross of University of California: “The Arab Spring uprisings are a reminder of the virtually universal appeal of democracy. But they should also serve as a reminder that oil wealth is one of the most stubborn obstacles to 
An Arab vision in focus
Aljazeera.com
Read about the role satellite media played in the Arab Spring in an excerpt from chapter six of The Invisible Arab. Editor’s note: This article is an excerpt from chapter six, and the sixth of a series of excerpts that Al Jazeera will be publishing, 

Aljazeera.com
Arab Spring Brings the Decline of Secularism in Tunisia
AINA (press release)
John R. Bradley, in his book After the Arab Spring, offers an alarming glimpse into Tunisia’s future governance: “[Ghannouchi] is for democracy ‘as a system of government and a method of change’ but — and here comes the conversation stopper — only 
SA could face own Arab Spring
Independent Online
By Barbara Cole South Africa could face its own Arab Spring if the situation was not handled carefully, world-renowned author and award-winning scenario planner Clem Sunter warned in Durban yesterday. Sunter said that the country had the same trends as 

Independent Online
The Global Note: Syria’s “Friends”…The Koran Protests Spread…Betting On 
ABC News (blog)
It’s the largest-scale effort yet to find answers to the carnage inside Syria – Hillary Clinton and officials from 69 other nations are meeting in the country where the Arab Spring began. But as these “Friends of Syria” gather, a brutal round of 
EU to freeze assets of Syrian central bank
San Jose Mercury News
.The birthplace of the Arab Spring hosts a landmark conference on Syria by high-level US, European, Turkish and Arab League officials. TUNIS, Tunisia—The European Union will freeze the assets of Syria’s central bank at its meeting on Monday, 
Nations want ‘tsunami wave’ of pressure on al-Assad
CNN
Meeting in the cradle of the Arab Spring, the Friends of Syria conference began setting the groundwork for a political transition in Syria, not unlike the international planning that forged the changes in Libya, where Moammar Gadhafi’s regime was 
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