Arab Spring awakens Kurdish dreams of autonomy
Vancouver Sun
An unintended though predictable consequence of the Arab Spring is what can be called the Kurdish Awakening. … The 25 million Kurds, who live mostly in the mountainous terrain where Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran meet and who have been persecuted by those governments throughout history, are the …
The Nation
With the latest massacre in Syria, in the battle for Aleppo, there was evidence that theArab Spring was by no means over, that the forces unleashed upon its President, Bashar Al-Assad, were so strong that they would probably sweep him away, even though …
Haaretz
Selective Memri. One can only expect that such an institution, as well as other news sources, would present a more nuanced picture of the changes taking place in the Arab world in the wake of the Arab Spring. By Dr. Assaf David | Aug.03, 2012 | 4:03 AM
Daily Beast
With Kofi Annan citing the escalating Syrian violence in his resignation as U.N. envoy, activists tell Mike Giglio they’re agonizing over their …
How ‘pro-regime’ Aleppo became one of Syria’s biggest battlegrounds
Christian Science Monitor
Aleppo was long regarded as immune to the uprising sweeping the rest of Syria, but the deaths of several students helped galvanize a dormant ..
Arab spring: a new entity born?
The Voice of Russia
Today the weekend Burning point is focusing on another aspect of the Arab Spring revolutionary process, that is – how have almost 20 months
Manthorpe: Arab spring, kurdish awakening
Vancouver Sun
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Disillusion for the revolutionaries who thought the Arab Spring would bring freedom and secularism
National Secular Society (blog)
Disillusion for the revolutionaries who thought the Arab Spring would … this week proposed a bill in parliament that would prohibit ‘blasphemy’.
Sudan protesters killed with automatic rifle ammunition: Amnesty
Reuters
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Eight Sudanese protesters killed this week at an anti-government demonstration in the Darfur region were shotwith ..
