Arab spring News : June 21, 2012

The Arab spring Egypt in peril
The Economist
A YEAR and a half after the optimism of the Arab spring, the Middle East is in frightening turmoil. Syria is close to sliding into a full-scale civil war whose outcome …

The Economist

The Arab Spring arrives in Sudan?
Gant Daily
The Media Line Staff Khartoum, Sudan Arieh O’Sullivan (The Med – Protests against biting austerity measures in Sudan have started to gain momentum and …

After the Arab Spring, the Junta’s Summer
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
Husain examines politics, society, and radicalism in the greater Middle East.

Council on Foreign Relations (blog)

Arab Spring’s second revolution
Christian Science Monitor
Tunisia, home to the Arab world’s first successful uprising against a dictator, erupted this week with a battle between radical Islamists and the moderate Islamic …

Christian Science Monitor

After the Arab Spring: A crisis of leadership
Houston Chronicle (blog)
The court invalidated the parliamentary elections held to date, putting Egypt back at the forefront of the Arab uprisings and revealing sharp divisions between …

Houston Chronicle (blog)

FM: Arab Spring protests poverty, disproves leftwing ideas
Jerusalem Post
Addressing the President’s conference “Facing Tomorrow,” on Thursday Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said that the Arab Spring is a “protest again poverty” …

Tunisian radicals travel to Syria
Kansas City Star
The cradle of the Arab Spring, Tunisia also has a long history of frustrated youth … they may make up a large percentage of Arabs who have gone to join the …