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Arab Spring News of the day : Dec 12, 2011

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Arab Spring’s uprisings reshape US influence
CBS News
Was America blindsided or bunkered down for the Arab Spring? The case is often made that Washington was caught flatfooted and now must adapt to diminished influence in a Middle East with new priorities. But there is an alternative narrative: that the 
Arab Spring could threaten Christians, warns archbishop of Canterbury
The Guardian
The archbishop of Canterbury has warned that the Arab Spring could lead to increased hostility towards Christians in the Middle East, describing their position as “more vulnerable than it has been for centuries”. In a House of Lords debate, 

The Guardian
Has the Arab Spring taken an Islamist turn?
Aljazeera.com
REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih While the protest movements of the Arab Spring appeared to be largely secular in nature, Islamist parties are now winning many of the elections that followed the popular uprisings in the region. In Tunisia, the previously outlawed 
An Arab Spring Update of Orwell’s “Animal Farm”
Newsweek
It’s a shame George Orwell didn’t live to see the Arab Spring. We can only imagine the tale he would have written. Recent events seem ripe for an Islamist edition of Animal Farm. Granted, George Orwell’s classic fairy tale would need to be changed here 

Newsweek
The Arab Spring: Could Turn Into a Long and Cruel Winter
Algemeiner
Even in those countries where the Arab Spring has already toppled the regime, the real challenges for a new political order has begun. In Tunisia, the victory by the Islamist party, Ennahda, in the parliamentary elections of October raises questions 
Arabs Should Take Cue From Israel
Forward
Spring Forward: As they emerge from the Arab Spring protests, Muslim countries are casting about for models of democracy. They need look no further than their neighbor, Israel. By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen As the countries and peoples of the Middle East 

Forward
The Nobel Prize Speech for the Arab Spring
UN Dispatch
The revolutions of the Arab spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria, and the movement towards revolutions in other Arab countries such as Algeria, Morocco, Bahrain, Sudan and others, in terms of motivation, driving power and objectives, 
Sudan says Arab Spring a boon for Islamists
Sudan Tribune
Mustafa Osman Isma’il, an adviser to Sudan’s president Al-Bashir, on Saturday said that Sudan sees a good omen in the recent developments in the Arab and Islamic world as well as the Arab Spring revolutions led the youth. According to the Sudanese
Noted linguist Noam Chomsky to discuss Arab Spring in Maine
The Republic
AP PORTLAND, Maine — Noam Chomsky, who’s known as the father of modern linguistics, will speak in Portland about the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East The University of New England’s Center for Global Humanities is sponsoring Monday’s

 

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