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Arab spring News : May 3, 2012

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UN Chief: Arab Spring Helped Ease Media Repression
Voice of America
May 03, 2012 UN Chief: Arab Spring Helped Ease Media Repression VOA News The United Nations and media rights groups marking World Press Freedom Day said theArab Spring has loosened the control of some governments over journalists, but they also said
Media watchdog wary of Arab Spring freedoms
Fox News
TUNIS, Tunisia – Reporters Without Borders says Arab Spring countries have fallen short on the promise of greater media freedom after the fall of dictators and autocrats in north Africa. The media watchdog’s warning came as Tunisia hosted UNESCO chief
Hamas And The Arab Spring
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
gives his take on US foreign policy, with special focus on the Middle East and democracy and human rights issues. by Elliott Abrams It would be logical to assess that Hamas (a part of the Muslim Brotherhood) must be a winner from the “Arab Spring.
UN Chief: Arab Spring Eased Some Media Repression
Middle East Voices
The United Nations and media rights groups marking World Press Freedom Day said the Arab Spring has loosened the control of some governments over journalists, but they also said many nations still repress the media. At a World Press Freedom Day event
Arab Spring Could Spur Growth Through Regional Integration in North Africa
AllAfrica.com
In the wake of the Arab Spring, the emerging political landscape in North Africa promises to give new impetus to regional integration efforts, according to a new study from the African Development Bank (AfDB). The report entitled, Unlocking North
Bin Laden supported Arab spring
Financial Times
By Johanna Kassel in New York Osama bin Laden was a surprising proponent of theArab spring, according to documents found after his capture and released on Thursday. In his last private letter written just a week before his death,
North Africa’s Berbers get boost from Arab Spring
Press News
The Arab Spring has galvanized the Berbers, North Africa’s original inhabitants, to push for their own political and cultural rights, with some success — they have secured official recognition for their language in Morocco.

Press News
Arab Spring expert shares insight on Arab revolutions
OSU – The Lantern
By Ayan Sheikh Marc Lynch, the man who coined the term “Arab Spring,” visited OSU May 1 at the Mershon Center. The man responsible for coining the term “Arab Spring,” Marc Lynch, visited Ohio State’s Mershon Center for International Security Studies as
The fearful over the Arab Spring
Al-Arabiya
By Elias Harfoush It is important that those who are criticizing the course of the Arab Spring and warning against its outcome stop and take a look at the positive political action seen inside the communities that have already experienced that spring.

Al-Arabiya
World food prices fall; inflation fear remains
Reuters
Record high food prices last February helped to fuel the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. Prices receded in the second half of 2011 but the uptrend resumed in January. The FAO Food Price Index, which measures monthly price
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