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Arab Spring News : Jul 17, 2012

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Tunisia Keeps the Arab Spring Alive
Bloomberg
Egypt is in a full-blown constitutional crisis. Syria is in a borderline civil war. Yemen elected its former vice president — who ran unopposed. Is the Arab Spring dead? If not, where is it living?
 
A Rush to Do Business in the Middle East
New York Times
American businesses that wait too long to investigate opportunities in Egypt, Libya and newly liberalized nations could be left behind, some argue.
 

New York Times
The Arab Spring’s Nobel Laureate Says the Revolution Isn’t Over
TIME
Change Square has changed, but not for the better. The tent city outside Sana’a University that was the focal point of year-long protests against Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh did not fold up after the dictator was finally ousted at the end of 
 

TIME
Charles Krauthammer | Arab Spring shifts toward an Islamist ascendancy
Kansas City Star
Good news, but tentative because Libya is less a country than an oil well with a long beach and myriad tribes. Even if the government of Mahmoud Jibril is able to rein in the militias and establish a functioning democracy, it will be the Arab Spring 
 
Israel’s old certainties crumble
The Guardian
Menachem Klein, a political scientist at Bar Ilan University, believes theArab spring has pushed Israel deeper into a defensive “bunker mentality” in the face of events it perceives as existential threats rather than as circumstances that have been 
 

The Guardian
Revolutionizing Revolutions: Virtual Collective Consciousness and the Arab 
Huffington Post (blog)
Think about what history will now remember as the Arab Spring. This recent wave of revolutions has yielded some successful and significant regime changes including, so far, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. One year after, established social movements’ 
 
A Ray of Light in Islamist Gloom
Daily Beast
Since early last year I have been warning (in The National Interest online and, more recently, in these pages) that the “Arab Spring” most likely will end up as an Arab Winter and that the main result of the year and a half of tumult in the Middle East 
 

Daily Beast
Kings trump aid for Arab spring nations
Moneycontrol.com
Back in May 2011, at the Deauville summit in France, the Group of Eight leading industrialised nations promised close to USD 40bn in assistance to Egypt and Tunisia, with the amount set almost to double once Morocco and Jordan were added to the list.
 

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