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Arab spring News of the day : Dec 15, 2011

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Arab Spring honoured with EP Sakharov Prize
euronews
http://www.euronews.net/ Honouring peaceful revolution in several Arab nations, in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, democracy activists Asmaa Mahfouz of Egypt and Ahmed al Sanusi of Libya personally received the institution’s foremost human 
Shadow Government: Whither the Arab Spring?
Foreign Policy (blog)
It remains far too early to tell what the so-called Arab Spring will yield, but the trends on several countries certainly provide cause for considerable concern. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party has emerged as that country’s 
Without Iraq, there would be no Arab Spring
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
 will disagree with my contention that we have left Iraq in a better place than we found it in the spring of 2003, I think the fall of Iraq has had a profound impact on the fortunes of the other Soviet-style dictatorships that infest the Arab world. 
The Arab Spring’s Violent Turn
The National Interest Online
Many pundits and government officials have praised the “Arab Spring” as a prelude to the rise of a new and more democratic Middle East. But it is difficult to reconcile this notion with the images of growing intersectarian violence within the region, 

The National Interest Online
Israel’s very own Arab Spring
National Post (blog)
They are overwhelmingly young and male, just like their counterparts on the Arab streets. Their actions have brought near-universal condemnation from the country’s media. Most Israelis are alarmed by the developments, while emphasizing the rioters 

National Post (blog)
Western Sahara: Forgotten Corner of the Arab Spring
World Politics Review
It will broach a topic that has otherwise gone largely overlooked in the aftermath of theArab Spring uprisings that have swept the Middle East and North Africa in the name of greater representation and government accountability: Western Sahara’s 
LEAD: Tunisia’s Essebsi: Arab Spring will hopefully continue
Monsters and Critics.com
Warsaw – The Arab Spring is still in its early stages and will hopefully unfold further, interim Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi said during a European Union forum in Poland on Thursday. ‘Tunisia can serve as an example for other countries to 
The Arab Spring and the “Unemployment Trap”
Center for Research on Globalization
Ali Kadri Prior to the Arab Spring, the official rate of unemployment in the Arab World was the highest globally. The labour share was as low as a quarter of national income. Productivity was negative. If a more sensible method of …

Center for Research on Globalization
Time anoints outspoken activists as its 2011 Person of the Year
Chicago Tribune
The magazine on Wednesday announced “The Protester” — a concept embodied in the so-called Arab Spring uprisings and in the US Occupy movement — as its 2011 selection. The choice came on a day when local demonstrators shut down a Chicago Public 

Chicago Tribune
Anti-Semitism re-emerges in the Arab Spring
Jerusalem Post
Many hoped that the Arab Spring indicated an end to this racist and counterproductive tradition, since initially, Israel was hardly mentioned as a cause of societal problems. For once, the finger of blame was rightly being pointed at their dictatorial 

 

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