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| Arab Spring: Link between thought and reality MENAFN.COM (MENAFN – Arab News) For over two decades, the Arab region – replete with historical events – has been passing through a turbulent phase. This phase reached its peak with the Arab Spring revolutions over a year ago. This phase gave an indication that … |
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| Once Tolerated, Alcohol Now Creates Rift In Tunisia NPR by Steve Inskeep A monument to Mohammed Bouazizi, a fruit seller who touched off the Arab Spring by setting himself on fire in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid. The graffiti reads, “For Those Who Yearn To Be free.” A vendor sells fruit in the … |
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| Trudy Rubin: Can Islamist parties and democracy mix? San Jose Mercury News By Trudy Rubin DOHA, Qatar — As the Arab Spring morphs into a hot Arab summer, activists around the region are debating whether Islamist parties and democracy can mix. Given the triumph of religious parties in parliamentary elections in Tunisia and … |
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| Morning Bits Washington Post (blog) “In the wake of the Arab Spring, US leaders have promised to reverse the United States’ long reliance on autocratic, unrepresentative leaders who enrich themselves at the expense of their citizens. There’s only one problem: Just as top American … |
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| Confronting Social and Economic Challenges AllAfrica.com Eighteen months after prompting the onset of the Arab spring, Tunisia still can boast of an ongoing, successful transition. The former regime, which stood for corruption and social injustice, is gone and democratic gains are palpable. |
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| How Israel’s Fear of Arab Democracy Leaves the Jewish State More Isolated AlterNet Middle East expert Reem Abou-El-Fadl explains how Arab solidarity with the Palestinians is being reflected at the official level in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Sign up to stay up to date on the latest World headlines via email. |
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| The Storied History Of A Tunisian Tuna Pastry Called Bric WAMU Over the next couple of weeks, NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep is taking a Revolutionary Road trip across North Africa to see how the countries of the Arab Spring are remaking themselves after revolutions last year. |
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| Complaint about article on oil price increases Sydney Morning Herald The caption read “Scarcely noticed … the Arab Spring pushed up oil prices”, an apparent reference to a claim in the article that the biggest cause of recent oil price increases was the Arab Spring and the disruption to Libyan oil supplies. |
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| Interest in Foreign News Declines Pew Research Center for the People and the Press Public interest in foreign news stories has been modest so far this year, in stark contrast to 2011 when several overseas news stories, from the Japanese tsunami and nuclear disaster to the “Arab spring,” attracted substantial attention. |
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| Reforms ‘must to tackle ME jobs crisis’ Trade Arabia … Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Arab World, is a direct response to helping solve the region’s unique problems in the wake of the Arab Spring as it bids to sustain early gains generated from transitions of power in some countries. |
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| What It’s Like To Be a Jewish Journalist In Tunisia Today Daily Beast by Peter Beinart Jun 4, 2012 3:00 PM EDT Over at Jewcy, Armin Rosen has written a gripping account of encountering vitriolic anti-Zionism as a journalist covering the Arab Spring in Tunisia. It’s frightening and fascinating: As journalists, … |
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| Henry Kissinger: Syrian Intervention Risks Upsetting Global Order Spyghana.com The Arab Spring is generally discussed in terms of the prospects for democracy. Equally significant is the increasing appeal — most recently in Syria — of outside intervention to bring about regime change, overturning prevalent notions of … |
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| MidEast Daily News The Media Line At the same time, Abbas warned that because of changes brought about by the Arab Spring, time for an agreement between the Palestinians and Israel is not unlimited. He urged Israel to accept his pre-conditions to come to the bargaining table having … |
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| Prime Minister back home Petra News Agency Tarawneh delivered a keynote address in a session dedicated to the repercussions of the Arab spring, in which he affirmed that the spring in Jordan was and will remain green, where the political sphere is open and based on tolerance. |
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| Int”l trade union body says 2011 was difficult year for workers MENAFN.COM Of the 76 people murdered for their trade union activities, not counting the workers killed during the Arab Spring, 29 lost their lives in Colombia. And in Guatemala yet again trade unionists paid a heavy price, with 10 assassinations committed with … |
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| World Economic Forum Expert Group Assists Ukraine MarketWatch (press release) The Summit brought together more than 1000 leaders from business, government, academia and civil society representing over 70 nations. Eurozone crisis, Syria, youth unemployment and the aftermath of the Arab Spring topped the agenda. |
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| Author Discusses Libyan Families, End of Gadhafi Regime Kansas City infoZine Hilsum, the international editor for Channel 4 News in England, reported from Libya during the Arab Spring. She made four trips to the country and has documented her experiences in “Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution. |
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| Supreme Leader, The Dictator is offensively funny – Dictator pokes at prototypes Kuwait Times Director Larry Charles exhibits a post Gaddafi, post Islamophobic and post Arab Spring aura where he fixes a narcissistic autocrat who has a pre Elizabethan conviction. Cohen impersonates Aladeen, the ‘after me deluge’ oil king who survives an… |
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| What you need to know about the Israeli market NASDAQ Traditionally, Israel has been dependent on natural gas imports from Egypt, which are jeopardized by the Arab Spring. But gas deposits have recently been discovered on Israeli territory sufficient to meet more than 90% of domestic demand, … |
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| Israeli Commander – Israel is Super Ready for Iran IsraCast With the ‘Arab Spring‘ raging in Egypt and elsewhere, the probability of a planned war against Israel was low. But on the other hand, the Arab Street was ‘very volatile’ and could spark a spontaneous flare-up. First and foremost there was Iran’s drive … |
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| The global anti-elite revolution The Nation, Pakistan At least, the first wave of revolutionary fervour has struck the world, commencing from unlikely Tunisia, spreading through dormant Egypt, toppling the Libyan strongman to the North African-Arabian Peninsula rejoiced in the Arab Spring. |
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| China’s Hu sees role for regional bloc in Afghanistan Reuters The summit will probably issue a document on regional security “against the background of the Arab Spring, as well as the uncertainties about Afghanistan after 2014″, said Zhao Huasheng, director of the Centre for Russian and Central Asia Studies at … |
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| Syrian prez appoints new PM as clashes rock Damascus Hindustan Times Hijab, 46, replaces Adel Safar, who had formed his government in April last year, a month after the Arab Spring-inspired uprising against Assad’s regime erupted drawing a bloody crackdown from the authorities. Rebels fighters went on the offensive in … |
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| David Sangers Confront and Conceal: 5 Revelations In Obamas Wars Daily Beast From Stuxnet to the Arab Spring, here are the five most revealing moments from Obama’s wars. ‘Confront and Conceal’ by David E. Sanger. 496 pp. Crown. $28. (Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images for Meet the Press) A new kind of war takes a new kind of … |
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| Dual Identity Yields an International Outlook The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. I don’t just follow Iranian issues; the disaster in Syria and the Arab Spring really caught my attention, too,” he said. The articulate 18-year-old said growing up Iranian and Jewish has been one of his biggest challenges so far. |
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| Corruption And Saudi Arabia CounterCurrents.org By Tariq A. Al-Maeena One of the by-products of regional uncertainty and the Arab Spring has been the steady rise in oil prices. And this added revenue has helped rapidly fill state coffers. Today, some of the GCC countries are putting that revenue to … |
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Arab spring News : June 6, 2012
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