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Arab spring News : Jan 22, 2012

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West urged to accept rising Islamist political power in Arab world
Los Angeles Times
REPORTING FROM CAIRO — Human Rights Watch has urged the West to accept the new reality that Islamist parties are the rising political powers in Arab nations where secular autocratic regimes were toppled in last year’s so-called Arab Springmovement.
Human Rights Watch: Iraq becoming ‘police state’
USA TODAY
BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq’s Shiite-led government cracked down harshly on dissent during the past year of Arab Spring uprisings, turning the country into a “budding police state” as autocratic regimes crumbled elsewhere in the region, an international rights

USA TODAY
Arab Spring sees rise in anti-Semitism
Jerusalem Post
By GIL SHEFLER Ministry study finds that “anti-Semitic discourse and incitement have become more extreme and violent” since Arab Spring. There has been an increase in anti-Semitism in the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring, according to a
Beirut artist portrays chaos, and hope, of Arab Spring
Monsters and Critics.com
In the middle sits a headless figure, a likely victim of the Arab Spring uprisings. ‘The scent coming from the eucalyptus gives hope,’ said Lebanese artist Randa Ali Ahmad. ‘Eucalyptus is known to be a symbol for change and protection,’ she told dpa.
The Spring Did Not Reach Lebanon
Al-Arabiya
By Husam Itani Lebanese politicians like to link the Arab spring to the Lebanese rise against Syrian tutelage in 2005, ie following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. However, if this connection is true, it should summon concerns and

Al-Arabiya
Arab Firestorm: what 2012 holds for the Middle East
Kipp Report
Forget the term Arab Spring, DIFC’s Chief Economist Dr Nasser Saidi says the series of events across the Middle East should be called ‘Arab Firestorm’. Here’s a survival guide. He is one of the 50 most influential Arabs in the World for two consecutive

Kipp Report
Syrian deserters take suburb near Damascus, activists say
Haaretz
By Reuters Tags: Syria Arab League Bashar Assad Arab Spring Syrian rebels seized several parts of a suburb of the capital Damascus on Saturday, activists said, and heavy fighting continued late into the night. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Haaretz
EU: Rights Abuse at Home Ignored
Human Rights Watch
Judging from the soaring rhetoric on the Arab Spring in 2011, human rights would seem to be a central concern of the EU. The sad truth is that European Union governments too often set aside rights at home when they prove inconvenient, especially those
Saudi Women Shatter the Lingerie Ceiling
New York Times
A SOCIAL revolution began in Saudi Arabia this month, and it has little if anything to do with the Arab Spring. Women are going to work in lingerie shops. The Ministry of Labor is enforcing a royal decree issued last summer ordering that sales
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