| Saudi widens Arab Spring backlash with Bahrain ‘union’ plans Washington Post DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — During a sermon last week at Bahrain’s Grand Mosque, the pro-government prayer leader offered sweeping praise for one of the Arab Spring’s counter-revolutions: Gulf rulers bonding together against dissent with powerful… |
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| Arab Spring Economies Need More Than Oil to Thrive Huffington Post (blog) It was the Arab Spring, chiefly the civil war in Libya, that sparked much of the panic. In less than two weeks in February and March last year when fighting intensified across the country controlled for four decades by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, … |
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| The “Arab Spring” and the Decline of the Arab Nation-State Middle East Online The “Arab Spring” is fomenting a breakdown of Arab states through the forces of sectarianism and radical Islam, notes Daniel Brode. The genesis of Arab states is in mandates maintained by European powers, Britain and France, following the collapse of… |
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| Saudi widens Arab Spring backlash with Bahrain `union’ plans Newser By BRIAN MURPHY | AP | 7 hours, 9 minutes ago in During a sermon last week at Bahrain’s Grand Mosque, the pro-government prayer leader offered sweeping praise for one of the Arab Spring’s counter-revolutions: Gulf rulers bonding together against … |
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| Arab Spring results in $96bn loss Arab News By FATIMA SIDIYA | ARAB NEWS STAFF JEDDAH: The ongoing political turmoil in certain Arab countries hit the tourism sector. So far, these states have lost $96 billion since the start of the Arab Spring, 18 percent of the losses in the tourism sector, … |
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| The Arab Spring To Caliphate: Echoes Of A Medieval Polemic – OpEd Eurasia Review By Hasnet Lais The Arab Spring, dubbed ‘a grotesque verbal distortion of the great Arab/Muslim awakening’ by The Independent’s Robert Fisk, has undergone a paradigm shift in the Egyptian context. The recent victory of the Muslim Brotherhood in the … |
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| Arab Spring opened window of sympathy, says author Middle East North Africa Financial Network (MENAFN – Arab News) Arab Spring initially made 82 percent of the population in the United States sympathize with Arab citizens. It may have opened a window toward better relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, said Dahlia Mogahed, … |
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| No Saudi Spring Boston Review Those Saudis expecting the Arab Spring to bloom in their country were no doubt disappointed. Using its classic strategies—anti-Shia religious rhetoric, a powerful and Western-trained security force, and economic handouts—the regime crushed any signs… |
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