Promise of Arab Spring eluding Egypt? CNN By Shadi Hamid, Special to CNN Hamid: Should Shafiq have role in new Egypt? Can Brotherhood share power with runners up? Editor’s note: Shadi Hamid is director of research at the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East … |
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Preventing Sunni-Shiite Schism from Hijacking the Arab Spring Huffington Post (blog) The high hopes accompanying the advent of the Arab Spring that the youth uprising would make a smooth transition to a liberal democracy are gradually fading away. After the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt won a decisive victory in the country’s first … |
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The Egyptian Election and the Arab Spring EurActiv This is not how the West, nor many Egyptians, thought the Arab Spring would turn out in Egypt. Their mistake was overestimating the significance of the democratic secularists, how representative the anti-Mubarak demonstrators were of Egypt as a whole, … |
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Is the Arab Spring creating a bunch of mini Irans? GlobalPost Boualem Sasnal, the man who inspired the Arab Spring, now says it was a failure. Algerian author Boualem Sansal poses in Los Angeles, Calif. on May 15, 2010. (Gabriel Buoys/AFP/Getty Images) JERUSALEM — Six months ago, when Algerian writer Boualem … |
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This week on Marketplace Middle East CNN The UAE is experiencing a tourism boom post-Arab spring. We talk to one company reaping the rewards Beirut’s Zaitunay Bay is one of the latest development projects in the Lebanese capital. The waterfront promenade is dotted with high-end shops and … |
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Jordan cuts subsidies for the rich Jerusalem Post By THE MEDIA LINE The government of Jordan’s King Abdullah II is teetering, as the delicate economic and political tightrope act he’s been performing since the start of theArab Spring becomes unstable. The government announced on Sunday that it will … |
Arab spring News : May 29, 2012
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