Russia’s ‘Arab Spring‘? Clashes break out in 2 cities
msnbc.com
Russia’s ‘Arab Spring’? Clashes break out in 2 cities Police officers detain an protester during a rally in Moscow on Tuesday. Russia’s opposition was energized when Vladimir Putin’s ruling party struggled in a weekend election. …
Arab Spring reflects people’s voice
gulfnews.com
Dubai: Arab Spring reflects the voice of people who have waited for a long time and are asking for more opportunities to work, His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, …
Arab Spring, NBA Lockout Top Twitter’s 2011 Standout Stories
TIME
Tara Todras-Whitehill / AP The biggest events of 2011 — the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami — were tremendous on their own. But the reverberations of the news on Facebook, Twitter and the like amplified the echos …
Amid Arab Spring, Israel seeks new friends
UPI.com
6 (UPI) — With Islamic parties making giant gains in parliamentary elections across North Africa amid the Arab Spring, Israel is scrambling to find new friends in the region, the Mediterranean and Africa. The 2010 rupture of relations between Israel …
After the Arab Spring
FrontPage Magazine
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is John R. Bradley, the author of the new book After the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts. He has been reporting from the Middle East for more than a decade. Fluent in Arabic and a frequent …
‘Arab Spring‘ Brings Islamist Radicals To Power
Investor’s Business Daily
Foreign Policy: The universally celebrated “Arab Spring” is harvesting a bumper crop of Islamist regimes so radical we’ll soon miss Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and even Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi. Like Tunisia, Egypt just voted in the previously outlawed …
Arab Spring does not mean democracy – diplomat
RT
The Arab Spring will not bring democracy, former Deputy Secretary General of the Arab League Adnan Omran warns. He says slogans brandished before elections are no guarantee that the winner is actually going to practice democracy. …
Arab spring‘ not proper term for uprisings in Mideast, North Africa: Velayati
Tehran Times
TEHRAN – Former foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati says the use of the term ‘Arab spring’ is an attempt by the West to liken uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa to ‘color revolutions’ in East European countries. …
Imagining the Arab Spring: A year later
Aljazeera.com
The term Arab Spring allows us to craft a meaningful narrative out of individual events, the author says. Doha, Qatar – As we approach the first anniversary of the Arab Spring on December 17, 2011, when the young Tunisian street vendor, …
US hypocrisy exposed
gulfnews.com
One of the more fascinating features of the Arab Spring is that the popular uprisings did not distinguish between pro- and anti-American regimes. The anti-American discourse of the Syrian and Libyan leaders offered them no protection against the ire of …
