| Vale, godfather of the Arab Spring The Australian GHASSAN Tueni, the long-time editor of the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar who died last Friday, was undoubtedly the greatest Arab journalist of his age. But he was also something more: he symbolised the liberal idea for his generation in the Middle East … |
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| What Israel could learn from the Arab Spring Jerusalem Post By ADAM HJ The Arab Spring—or Winter—is, as Winston Churchill might have put it, “one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.” Its uncertain path is at the same time both comforting and worrying. But precisely because the … |
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| Despite Arab Spring, Saudi Arabia leads a counter-revolution Alaska Dispatch This push for integration was clearly linked to what happened during the Arab Spring.” At a May summit, Saudi’s King Abdullah proposed creating a closer political, economic and military union with the five other Arab monarchies that comprise the Gulf … |
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| Do You Still Believe It’s an Arab Spring? The Atlantic By Jeffrey Goldberg Last year, I interviewed women leaders of the anti-Mubarak uprising, who believed they could usher in a new era of women’s empowerment in Egypt. From the ferocity of the assault, some of the victims said it appeared to have been an … |
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| The summer’s books offer good reads for just about every taste San Jose Mercury News The most Harry Potter-ish action-adventure romance unfolds against the backdrop of the Arab Spring. And respected 20th-century newscaster Walter Cronkite shares space on the TV shelf with the guy behind Bravo’s “Real Housewives” shows. |
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| LIMITS OF FACEBOOK REVOLUTION Livemint Ihad just finished a panel discussion on Turkey and the Arab Spring at a regional conference here (in Istanbul), and, as I was leaving, a young Egyptian woman approached me. “Mr Friedman, could I ask you a question? Who should I vote for? |
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| Netanyahu – Settler Showdown IsraCast Meanwhile just over the borders in Egypt and Syria, Analyst David Essing is of the view that the term ‘Arab Spring‘ has obviously become a media oxymoron. Is Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the champion of West Bank settlement, … |
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